Future Fiction #88 – 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


I’m going with a blue/green/teal vibe this week, take a look:


This cli-fi novel from a notable archaeologist and anthropologist explores a frozen future where archaic species struggle to survive an apocalyptic Ice Age

One thousand years in the future, the zyme, a thick blanket of luminous green slime, covers the oceans. Glaciers three-miles-high rise over the continents. The old stories say that when the Jemen, godlike beings from the past, realized their efforts to halt global warming had gone terribly wrong, they made a desperate gamble to save life on earth and recreated species that had survived the worst of the earth’s Ice Ages.

Sixteen-summers-old Lynx and his best friend Quiller are members of the Sealion People–archaic humans known as Denisovans. They live in a world growing colder, a world filled with monstrous predators that hunt them for food. When they flee to a new land, they meet a strange old man who impossibly seems to be the last of the Jemen. He tells Lynx the only way he can save his world is by sacrificing himself to the last true god, a quantum computer named Quancee.

The Ice Lion by Kathleen O’Neal Gear. Releases in May 2021 from DAW Books. OK this sounds cool. There’s a lot going on, but I’m curious about the Sealion People and the quantum computer!


A man battles his addiction to a devastating nanotech drug that steals identities and threatens the survival and succession of mankind as a galactic species.

After the Nova-Insanity shattered Earth’s civilization, the Genes and Fullerenes Corporation was formed to bring humanity back from the brink. Many years later, various factions have formed, challenging their savior and vying for a share of power and control.

Glow follows the lives of three very different beings, all wrestling mental instability in various forms; Rex – a confused junkie battling multiple voices in his head; Ellayna – the founder of GFC living on an orbital satellite station and struggling with paranoia; and Jett – a virtually unstoppable robotic assassin, questioning his purpose of creation.

All of them are inextricably linked through the capricious and volatile Glow; an all controlling nano-tech drug that has the ability to live on through multiple hosts, cutting and pasting memories and personas in each new victim.

In this tech-crazed world where nothing seems impossible, many questions are posed: what makes us who are we? What is our ultimate purpose and place in this world? And, most frightening of all, what are we capable of doing to survive?

Glow by Tim Jordan. Releases in February 2021 from Angry Robot. This sounds like it could be really intense! I’m intrigued and I’m making a note to add this to my February TBR for sure.


Under the Whispering Door is a contemporary fantasy with TJ Klune’s signature “quirk and charm” (PW) about a ghost who refuses to cross over and the ferryman he falls in love with

When a reaper comes to collect Wallace Price from his own funeral, Wallace suspects he really might be dead.

Instead of leading him directly to the afterlife, the reaper takes him to a small village. On the outskirts, off the path through the woods, tucked between mountains, is a particular tea shop, run by a man named Hugo. Hugo is the tea shop’s owner to locals and the ferryman to souls who need to cross over.

But Wallace isn’t ready to abandon the life he barely lived. With Hugo’s help he finally starts to learn about all the things he missed in life.

When the Manager, a curious and powerful being, arrives at the tea shop and gives Wallace one week to cross over, Wallace sets about living a lifetime in seven days.

By turns heartwarming and heartbreaking, this absorbing tale of grief and hope is told with TJ Klune’s signature warmth, humor, and extraordinary empathy.

Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune. Releases in March 2021 from Tor Books. I’m sad I haven’t read The House in the Cerulean Sea yet, which many of my fellow bloggers have been raving about. This almost looks like a sequel, because the cover art is very similar, but I don’t think it is.


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

Posted September 2, 2020 by Tammy in Future Fiction / 40 Comments

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40 responses to “Future Fiction #88 – Cover Reveals & Newly Discovered SFF Books

  1. I MUST read The Ice Lion! One look at the cover and one read of the synopsis and I’m like YUP! Glow sounds also like something I’d enjoy. And I also have seen many bloggers raving about The House in the Cerulean Sea so definitely plan on giving it a go. And of course Under the Whispering Door looks and sounds great as well. So many books so little time!
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  2. You must be part of a heinous plot to derail my – admittedly – feeble attempts to get my TBR under control!! I want them ALLLL. The Sea Lion and Glow particularly are calling to me – but I also love the sound of Klune’s writing, too. I hope you get a chance to read these all, Tammy, while I TRY to resist their lure…

  3. I won’t lie, I’ll probably give The Ice Lion a chance just because of the cover. Under the Whispering Door sounds really good as well and I’ve heard only good things about The House in the Cerulean Sea. Great picks this week!

  4. Ooh, that Kathleen O’Neal Gear book is going on my TBR right now! I’ve read a few by her and her husband that I really liked, while the one series they had isn’t really my type, this one sounds exactly like what I’d read! Thanks for sharing that! You can check out my Wednesday post in the link below!
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  5. I want to read Under the Whispering Door just for that cover. LOL It does sound good too. I hope you enjoy all of these if you read them! Have a great week. Happy Reading!

  6. These posts always make my TBR list so much longer! The Ice Lion sounds extremely cool, as does Glow! I was so excited when I saw TJ Klune’s announcement for Under the Whispering Door and I cannot wait for it! I don’t htink it’s a sequel, but I wish it was–The House in the Cerulean Sea is easily a favorite book. 🙂
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  7. Yep, I’m looking forward to Ice Lion as well! And I haven’t read The House in the Cerulean Sea either, and I totally thought this was a sequel as well because of the cover art style. If it isn’t, I might look into it!

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