Future Fiction #60: Cover Reveals & Newly Discovered SFF Books

Welcome to Future Fiction, my reimagining of the Waiting on Wednesday meme! There are so many amazing new books coming out, that I can no longer pick just one. My goal with Future Fiction is to share at least three new books each week, a combination of recent cover reveals and books that I’ve recently added to my TBR pile. I’m still going to be linking up with Wishful Endings/Can’t Wait Wednesday, and I also want to give a shout out to Jill at Breaking the Spine for starting the original Waiting on Wednesday meme. I hope you’ll find some new books to add to your TBR piles, and as always, I look forward to hearing what YOU’RE looking forward to:-D


Three lovely new covers spotted! Take a look:


The world is changing. Poison desert eats good farmland. Once-sweet water turns foul. The wind blows sand and sadness across the Empire. To get caught in a storm is death. To live and do nothing is death. There is magic in the world, but good conjure is hard to find.

Djola, righthand man and spymaster of the lord of the Arkhysian Empire, is desperately trying to save his adopted homeland, even in exile.

Awa, a young woman training to be a powerful griot, tests the limits of her knowledge and comes into her own in a world of sorcery, floating cities, kindly beasts, and uncertain men.

Awash in the rhythms of folklore and storytelling and rich with Hairston’s characteristic lush prose, Master of Poisons is epic fantasy that will leave you aching for the world it burns into being

Master of Poisons by Andrea Hairston. Releases in September 2020 from Tor.com. Wow, I love this cover! Hairston’s short fiction has made an appearance in lots of anthologies, and she’s also written some novels, but I’ve yet to read her work. This seems like an excellent place to start:-D Cover design by Jamie Stafford-Hill.


Welcome to a world made dangerous by the sea and by those who wish to profit from it. Where a young girl must find her place and her family while trying to survive in a world built for men.

As the daughter of the most powerful trader in the Narrows, the sea is the only home seventeen-year-old Fable has ever known. It’s been four years since the night she watched her mother drown during an unforgiving storm. The next day her father abandoned her on a legendary island filled with thieves and little food. To survive she must keep to herself, learn to trust no one and rely on the unique skills her mother taught her. The only thing that keeps her going is the goal of getting off the island, finding her father and demanding her rightful place beside him and his crew. To do so Fable enlists the help of a young trader named West to get her off the island and across the Narrows to her father.

But her father’s rivalries and the dangers of his trading enterprise have only multiplied since she last saw him and Fable soon finds that West isn’t who he seems. Together, they will have to survive more than the treacherous storms that haunt the Narrows if they’re going to stay alive.

Fable (Fable #1) by Adrienne Young. Releases in September 2020 from Wednesday Books. I absolutely loved Sky in the Deep, and this is the start to a new series that sounds like so much fun!


A teen outcast must work together with new friends to keep her family and town safe from murderous Fae while also dealing with panic attacks, family issues, and a lesbian love triangle in C.M. McGuires’s kick-butt paranormal YA debut, Ironspark.

For the past nine years, ever since a bunch of those evil Tinkerbells abducted her mother, cursed her father, and forced her family into hiding, Bryn has devoted herself to learning everything she can about killing the Fae. Now it’s time to put those lessons to use.

Then the Court Fae finally show up, and Bryn realizes she can’t handle this on her own. Thankfully, three friends offer to help: Gwen, a kindhearted water witch; Dom, a new foster kid pulled into her world; and Jasika, a schoolmate with her own grudge against the Fae.

But trust is hard-won, and what little Bryn has gained is put to the test when she uncovers a book of Fae magic that belonged to her mother. With the Fae threat mounting every day, Bryn must choose between faith in her friends and power from a magic that could threaten her very humanity.

Ironspark by C.M. McGuire. Releases in August 2020 from Swoon Reads.  I love the graphic novel vibe of this cover, isn’t it wonderful? Swoon Reads isn’t my normal go-to publisher, but I think I’ll make an exception in this case. Cover art by Samya Arif.


What do you think of this week’s Future Fiction picks? Let me know in the comments!

Posted February 19, 2020 by Tammy in Future Fiction / 45 Comments

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45 responses to “Future Fiction #60: Cover Reveals & Newly Discovered SFF Books

  1. …you had me at “lesbian love triangle”. I can’t believe I had never heard about Ironspark before.
    I added Master of Poison when I heard of it last week, it sounds so interesting (bees? That cover is really interesting for sure). And Adrienne Young really gets amazing covers! This one is so pretty, and I think Sky in the Deep’s was stunning as well.
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    • Tammy

      I can’t remember where I spotted Ironspark, because it’s a publisher I don’t really follow. But I’m glad I did:-)

  2. Sarah

    Master of Poisons sounds awesome! I feel like I’ve read a few of Hairston’s short stories also but I can’t remember them at the moment. And Ironspark sounds a little like a YA Fever novel so that’s pretty cool. Haven’t read a Fae book in awhile.

    • Tammy

      I know, Fable just sounds amazing! I’ve had good luck with the author in the past, so I’m very hopeful:-)

  3. Master of Poisons caught my eye in this group. The story sounds interesting and that cover is fantastic. I’d be curiuos to see how bees factor into the story, perhaps as a source of poison?

  4. Oh wow, all of these covers are beautiful. Tor.com always has such interesting premises with their releases! I haven’t been interested in any of Young’s books published so far but this is one I am actually excited to try! And Ironspark is gorgeous!
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