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
This week, three new cover reveals spotted:
Dark, mournful, and beautiful, Sarah Tolmie’s The Fourth Island is a moving and unforgettable story of life and death on the hidden Irish island of Inis Caillte.
Huddled in the sea off the coast of Ireland is a fourth Aran Island, a secret island peopled by the lost, findable only in moments of despair. Whether drowned at sea, trampled by the counter-reformation, or exiled for clinging to the dead, no outsiders reach the island without giving in to dark emotion.
Time and again, The Fourth Island weaves a hypnotic pattern with its prose, presaging doom before walking back through the sweet and sour moments of lives not yet lost. It beautifully melds the certainty of loss with the joys of living, drawing readers under like the tide.
The Fourth Island by Sarah Tolmie. Releases in October 2020 from Tor.com. Amidst all the confusion and fear, I’m glad to see Tor.com is still doing cover reveals. This one is beautiful, and the cover really makes me want to read this story!
Michelle and Cliff Stage bought their isolated vacation cabin in the mountains of North Carolina with hopes of repairing their eighteen-year marriage. But when Cliff disappears one night searching for the source of a mysterious light in the woods, Michelle’s life will change in unimaginable ways. After the sheriff’s department fails to find him, Michelle scrambles down the same dark mountainside alone, the strange, beckoning light her only guide.
What she discovers is a cabin, identical to theirs, housing a life she barely recognizes–and a husband she hardly knows. Cliff is a changed man. Now caring and considerate, no longer a manipulative womanizer, he is also missing a finger. He claims that Cassie, their teenage daughter, is dead, killed in a car accident over a year ago. Michelle knows that’s not possible–Cassie had phoned her from Atlanta only hours before. Even when shown Cassie’s grave, Michelle refuses to accept she’s gone.
Michelle wants her daughter and her life back, and the only clue to what has happened is a man named Pink. A real estate agent and the man who years earlier built Michelle and Cliff’s cabin, Pink was rumored to have killed his wife and buried her on the property then vanished never to be seen again. But in Michelle’s new reality, Pink and his wife still reside in town and Pink’s smile-splashed billboards are everywhere. To get back to the world where her daughter exists, Michelle must unravel the mystery of Pink while questioning her very reality–and her sanity. Haunting, atmospheric, and deeply thought-provoking, The Cabin on Souder Hill questions the very nature of our existence and the choices we make to form it.
The Cabin on Souder Hill by Lonnie Busch. Releases in September 2020 from Blackstone Publishing. This book sounds really trippy! It seems like it has speculative elements in it, although it’s labeled as a “thriller” on Edelweiss. Still, I’m very curious to see what’s going on with this one!
An outsider who can travel between worlds discovers a secret that threatens her new home and her fragile place in it, in a stunning sci-fi debut that’s both a cross-dimensional adventure and a powerful examination of identity, privilege, and belonging.
Multiverse travel is finally possible, but there’s just one catch: No one can visit a world where their counterpart is still alive. Enter Cara, whose parallel selves happen to be exceptionally good at dying—from disease, turf wars, or vendettas they couldn’t outrun. Cara’s life has been cut short on 372 worlds in total.
On this Earth, however, Cara has survived. Identified as an outlier and therefore a perfect candidate for multiverse travel, Cara is plucked from the dirt of the wastelands. Now she has a nice apartment on the lower levels of the wealthy and walled-off Wiley City. She works—and shamelessly flirts—with her enticing yet aloof handler, Dell, as the two women collect off-world data for the Eldridge Institute. She even occasionally leaves the city to visit her family in the wastes, though she struggles to feel at home in either place. So long as she can keep her head down and avoid trouble, Cara is on a sure path to citizenship and security.
But trouble finds Cara when one of her eight remaining doppelgängers dies under mysterious circumstances, plunging her into a new world with an old secret. What she discovers will connect her past and her future in ways she could have never imagined—and reveal her own role in a plot that endangers not just her world, but the entire multiverse.
The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson. Releases in August 2020 from Del Rey Books. Here’s another story that sounds really cool, and I have to say I LOVE this cover.
The covers are, as always, spectacular!!
They are pretty great this week, thanks Susy:-)
Oh my god Tammy! I can’t stop looking at the cover of The Fourth Island. It’s so beautiful??! ♥
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Right?? Like a woodcut drawing.
Added The Fourth Island to my TBR. Sounds very interesting and I absolutely love that cover. Here’s hoping the story and cover all work together. If so, we’re in for a fantastic read.
I agree, I love when a book with a gorgeous cover is a good read too.
I spotted The Space Between Worlds Monday and I have to say- it sounds fantastic. Really high hopes for that one. The Cabin on Souder Hill and The Fourth Island so great too.
Two of them are up on NetGalley and it’s taking all my self control not to request them, lol.
” a secret island peopled by the lost, findable only in moments of despair”
Damn, but that’s intriguing!
Intriguing, and also vague! I’m dying to read it:-)
The Cabin on Souder Hill has a cool cover and an even better blurb.
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I agree, that’s one I need to keep an eye on:-)
The Fourth Island is gorgeous! Must have a copy!
I know, it’s so pretty!
I am totally feeling The Cabin on Shoulder Hill!
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Me too! The more I look at the cover, the more I like it:-)
These covers are gorgeous and they sound amazing
They do! It’s so hard to choose what to read with so many amazing sounding books coming out:-)
Wow, I really want to read The Cabin on Souder Hill. It sounds great. The Fourth Island really is pretty but it sounds pretty darn depressing!
I’m probably going to request The Cabin on Souder Hill, it’s so tempting…
Oooh great choices this week! All three of those covers are gorgeous!
I really love the covers this week too:-)
The Cabin on Sounder Hill sounds fantastic. I like the other as well.
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I agree, I think it’s going to be really creepy:-)
Ooo… the Space Between Worlds sounds fabulous! I love the premise – you really have an eye for spotting brilliant books:))
Aannndddd… I’ve just scampered across to Netgalley and requested it! Fingers crossed:))))
Oooh good luck! I’m actually trying to be good this time:-)
The cover of that last one IS absolutely AMAZING! And the story doesn’t sound too bad, either! But those parallel universe/time travelly ones are always hit or miss for me, so… fingers crossed!
Me too, Will. Some work and some don’t…
Oooh! All of those have really great covers! They look like ones I might be interested in as well. Thanks for sharing! You can see my large list this week in the link below!
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I love all the covers too:-)
I’m gonna have to check out The Cabin on Souder Hill! The cover definitely screams thriller, but I’m glad to hear it’ll have spec fic elements.
I think the cover leans a little more towards horror, but I guess we’ll see…
These all sound good and very much like books I would love but the Cabin on Souder Hill sounds really good.
Lynn 😀
I’m especially excited for that one too:-)
You’ve sold me on The Space Between Worlds.
It sounds good, right?
The Cabin on Souder Hill definitely sounds trippy! I absolutely need to know what is going on?!?!
I know, I need to know too!
These all look SUPER interesting. I don’t know that I’ll be adding any to my TBR in the immediate future but these look like they’re going to be good reads. Hope you enjoy. 🙂
Thanks Lisa:-)
These all sound like they will be good! I think I am most interested in The Space Between Worlds, but I just love that cover for The Cabin on Souder Hill. I hope you enjoy all of these when you read them. Have a good weekend and stay safe and well.
The cover for The Cabin on Souder Hill is my favorite this week:-) Hope you stay safe as well!
The cover for Space Between Worlds catches my eye every time I see it. I haven’t tried to request it yet, but I’m always so tempted.
Me too, I haven’t requested it yet, but I’ll probably break down at some point, lol.
I’ve been seeing The Cabin on Souder Hill around, and it has me really curious! It sounds really good, but I’m not quite sure about it, so I’ll be looking forward to your review I guess before I decide if I should pick it up or not. 😉
The fourth island sounds awesome. Immediately added it to the list. Arrr!