Future Fiction #69: 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


More Fall 2020 books to add to your TBRs, #sorrynotsorry. At this point I’m living for Fall…


A thrilling new science fiction mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of the Donovan novels

Dr. Timothy Ryan, head of the military psychiatric unit at Grantham Barracks, is meeting a new patient, a woman known as “Prisoner Alpha.” As she is being transferred, they are attacked by assassins, barely escaping with their lives. One shooter vanishes, leaving behind a dead companion unlike anyone Ryan has ever seen.

But even more baffling is the puzzle of Alpha herself. She speaks in a strange tongue, and doodles in bars, dots, and little pictures like nothing Ryan has ever seen. Is she some sort of savant, or the most cunning spy he’s ever met?

Meanwhile, in Egypt, archaeologist Reid Farmer uncovers an 18th-Dynasty tomb that shouldn’t exist, filled with Mayan epigraphy, mathematics, and materials that didn’t exist 3,000 years ago. As a result of this discovery, Reid and forensic anthropologist Kilgore France–along with the sarcophagus they have found–are snatched away to a hidden lab to solve the enigma of a man lost in time.

As dark forces gather, Alpha makes an impossible escape from Grantham. Ryan quickly becomes the prime suspect in her disappearance, but with a team of unique allies, sets out to prove his innocence. Together, they must find Alpha and save Ryan before it is too late.

The Alpha Enigma by W. Michael Gear. Releases in November 2020 from DAW Books. Ooh, I had no idea this even existed, until I was perusing catalogs on Edelweiss over the weekend! You might recognize Gear as the author of the Donovan series that I’ve been reading and reviewing, so it makes me so happy to see he’s got yet another book coming out this year. This seems like an interesting mix of sci-fi and anthropology!


An eerie debut about a little boy who recovers from a sickness and inherits an imaginary friend who makes him do violent things…

Kids have imaginary friends. Rachel knows this. So when her young son, Billy, miraculously recovers from a horrible flu that has proven fatal for many, she thinks nothing of Delfy, his new invisible friend. After all, her family is healthy and that’s all that matters.

But soon Delfy is telling Billy what to do, and the boy is acting up and lashing out in ways he never has before. As Delfy’s influence is growing stranger and more sinister by the day, and rising tensions threaten to tear Rachel’s family apart, she clings to one purpose: to protect her children at any cost–even from themselves.

We Hear Voices is a mischievously gripping near-future horror novel that tests the fragility of family and the terrifying gray area between fear and love.

We Hear Voices by Evie Green. Releases in October 2020 from Berkley Books. OK, I’m hoping the whole “miraculously recovers from a horrible flu that has proven fatal for many” is simply a coincidence, and not the publisher rushing a COVID-19 story into production. But in any case, this sounds quite spooky!


For fans of Maggie Stiefvater and Neil Gaiman comes a stunning contemporary fantasy about a mysterious death, three friends who seek the truth, and the incredible power of our own desires.

Last summer, Link Miller drowned on dry land in the woods, miles from the nearest body of water. His death was ruled a weird accident, but Noemi Amato knows the truth: Link was killed. He told her so himself, because he’s been texting her from beyond the grave, warning her to keep away from the forest.

Amberlyn, Link’s sister, can’t shake the feeling that Noemi is hiding something, and Jonas, Noemi’s new housemate, can’t get past the walls that she has constructed around herself. Because Noemi has a dangerous secret even bigger than Link’s ghost…

Link drowned in an impossible lake that only she can find.

Now, if the three don’t work together to unravel the truth about what is happening in the woods, someone else may wind up dead. Set over the course of one heartbreaking, mystifying, and ultimately hopeful year, this remarkable debut heralds the arrival of an incredible new voice in young adult literature.

We Were Restless Things by Cole Nagamatsu. Releases in October 2020 from Sourcebooks Fire. I have to admit, I chose this book mostly because of this GORGEOUS cover. But now I’m sold on the story as well, which sounds like a really unique ghost story!


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

Posted April 22, 2020 by Tammy in Future Fiction / 42 Comments

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42 responses to “Future Fiction #69: Cover Reveals & Newly Discovered SFF Books

    • Tammy

      Gear’s wife is also a writer and she just wrote a book revolving around ancient Egypt as well (which I need to read!)

  1. The cover for We Were Restless Things looks so ethereal and accompanied by the blurb … wow, it gives me the shivers! Great choice, Tammy!

  2. NGL – I love the sound of all of these (not greedy at all) – but the Maggie Stiefvater and Neil Gaiman description for the third book definitely grabbed my attention.
    Lynn 😀

    • Tammy

      Ha ha, I’ve seen a lot of books with deadly viruses coming out lately, but I think writers are always using that as a plot point so maybe it’s just a coincidence:-)

    • Tammy

      I agree, it should be good, and having read some other books of his, I am pretty confident about that:-)

  3. I would really like to try W. Michael Gear one of these days. Each of his books sounds very interesting. And like you, I find the anthropology slant to it intriguing.

    • Tammy

      He’s really good, and I’m looking forward to this new one, which sounds like it might develop into a series.

  4. The last two seem a bit too creepy for my taste – but W. Michael Gear is an author I want to read as his books look like they might be my kind of thing! Thank you for the heads-up, Tammy:))

    • Tammy

      Gear is really good, and I think you’d love his Donovan series, which is a really good space colonization story:-)

  5. I do hope fall will be better… It’s been such a year so far. At least there are some great books out there to read. The Alpha Enigma does sound awesome. Definitely something to look forward to. We Were Restless Things sounds irresistible. And that cover! I hope you get a chance to read all of these and love them when you do. Stay safe and well.

    • Tammy

      I think we all want something to look forward to, that’s the problem with life right now!

  6. Will

    As usual, you came up with a trio of books I’ve never even heard of! Gear’s new one sounds pretty good, but I especially love the cover on that last one!

    • Tammy

      You don’t see a lot of Egypt-centric stories, so it’s nice to know someone is writing them:-)

  7. I discovered The Alpha Enigma the very same way! Wow, Edelweiss, what a bad influence you are on our TBRs. xD I haven’t read the Donovan series yet (even though I want to), but I definitely think I’m gonna pick this one up! I managed to get an ARC of We Were Restless Things, and I’m so excited for it! I clicked Request the moment I saw it pop up, because yes, the cover’s gorgeous, but this book sounds sooo good! I’m actually surprised that I knew about two out of three of your books this week. That doesn’t happen very often. xD For once, I can’t blame you for piling onto my TBR, because … I kind of did it to myself. Shucks.

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