Future Fiction #74: 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


For the last Future Fiction of May, I’m happy to feature three new fantasy books for Wyrd & Wonder:


A young girl discovers a portal to a land filled with centaurs and unicorns in Seanan McGuire’s Across the Green Grass Fields, a standalone tale in the Hugo and Nebula Award-wining Wayward Children series.

“Welcome to the Hooflands. We’re happy to have you, even if you being here means something’s coming.”

Regan loves, and is loved, though her school-friend situation has become complicated, of late.

When she suddenly finds herself thrust through a doorway that asks her to “Be Sure” before swallowing her whole, Regan must learn to live in a world filled with centaurs, kelpies, and other magical equines―a world that expects its human visitors to step up and be heroes.

But after embracing her time with the herd, Regan discovers that not all forms of heroism are equal, and not all quests are as they seem…

Across the Green Grass Fields (Wayward Children #6) by Seanan McGuire. Releases in January 2021 from Tor.com. I can’t believe we’re up to book #6! I was thrilled when Tor.com finally revealed this cover last week, and I look forward to Regan’s adventure.


Darkly magical and intricately imagined, The Mask of Mirrors is the unmissable start to the Rook & Rose trilogy, a rich and dazzling fantasy adventure in which a con artist, a vigilante, and a crime lord must unite to save their city.

Nightmares are creeping through the city of dreams…

Renata Viraudax is a con artist who has come to the sparkling city of Nadezra — the city of dreams — with one goal: to trick her way into a noble house and secure her fortune and her sister’s future.

But as she’s drawn into the elite world of House Traementis, she realizes her masquerade is just one of many surrounding her. And as corrupt magic begins to weave its way through Nadezra, the poisonous feuds of its aristocrats and the shadowy dangers of its impoverished underbelly become tangled — with Ren at their heart.

The Mask of Mirrors (Rook & Rose #1) by M.A. Carrick. Releases in January 2021 from Orbit Books. This beautiful cover was revealed last week. I mean wow, right? M.A. Carrick is a pseudonym for Marie Brennan and Alyc Helms, cool right?


The first book in a new environmental epic fantasy series set in a world where ships kept afloat by magical hearthfires sail an endless grass sea.

On the never-ending, miles-high expanse of prairie grasses known as the Forever Sea, Kindred Greyreach, hearthfire keeper and sailor aboard harvesting vessel The Errant, is just beginning to fit in with the crew of her new ship when she receives devastating news. Her grandmother–The Marchess, legendary captain and hearthfire keeper–has stepped from her vessel and disappeared into the sea.

But the note she leaves Kindred suggests this was not an act of suicide. Something waits in the depths, and the Marchess has set out to find it.

To follow in her grandmother’s footsteps, Kindred must embroil herself in conflicts bigger than she could imagine: a water war simmering below the surface of two cultures; the politics of a mythic pirate city floating beyond the edges of safe seas; battles against beasts of the deep, driven to the brink of madness; and the elusive promise of a world below the waves.

Kindred finds that she will sacrifice almost everything–ship, crew, and a life sailing in the sun–to discover the truth of the darkness that waits below the Forever Sea.

The Forever Sea (The Forever Sea #1) by Joshua Phillip Johnson. Releases in January 2021 from DAW Books. If I had to pick a favorite cover this week, it would be hard, but this one comes close! I absolutely love it, and I want to know why a boat is sailing in the middle of a grass field.  This is fantasy debut that sounds really good!


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

Posted May 27, 2020 by Tammy in Future Fiction / 50 Comments

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50 responses to “Future Fiction #74: Cover Reveals & Newly Discovered SFF Books

  1. Each one of these sounds promising. I stil need to try the Wayward Children books. And a fantasy with a con artist, a vigilante, and a crime lord working together? I like the sound of that. And who wouldn’t be curious about ships that sail on seas of grass?

    • Tammy

      It does seem far away, but you know how it goes, you blink and it’s January already:-)

  2. LGBT fantasy will always get my attention so I’m definitely interested in Mask of Mirrors! I’m not super keen on The Forever Sea, it’s not really my kinda plot, but that cover is STUNNING

  3. They all seem amazing, and I want to read them all! But The Mask of Mirrors is the one that I covet the most. I never heard of it before, but I think I am in love with it anyway!

    • Tammy

      I’m always curious about authors who team up to write together, so it will be fun to see what The Mask of Mirrors is like.

  4. Wayward Children is a series I actually know. I’ve only read the first book but I’ve been wanting to continue the series ever since. The cover of The Mask of Mirrors made me go OMG and the story sounds super awesome as well! The Forever Sea sounds fantastic as well. I’m forever adding books to my TBR because of you. 😀
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  5. Definitely some interesting picks this week and I had no idea about the pen name. I just knew when I was doing my post that you would probably have the McGuire book as well. I know how much we enjoy them.

    • Tammy

      I had a feeling you’d have the new Wayward Children book as well. But I’m surprised, I haven’t seen it on that many blogs.

  6. What a sumptuous feast! I love the look of The Forever Sea – this one looks really intriguing and I love DAW books… that cover is wonderful… Thank you for sharing, Tammy.

  7. verushka

    Wow, the cover for The Mask of Mirrors is sensational — and backed up by a killer blurb too!! I mean a con artist, vigilante and a crime lord band together to save the city?!

  8. That Seanan Mcguire book looks SO good. I can’t wait to read the reviews and hope everyone loves it and tempts me into buying it!

  9. Yes to all of these! Especially the Seanan Maguire book. I want to read everything she’s written. I hope you get a chance to read and love all of these. Have a great weekend!

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