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
Four new SF picks for #SciFiMonth, and I want to read ALL of them, take a look:
An investigator must solve a brutal murder on a claustrophobic asteroid mine in this tense science fiction thriller from the author of Salvation Day.
Hester Marley used to have a plan for her life. But when a catastrophic attack left her injured, indebted, and stranded far from home, she was forced to take a dead-end security job with a powerful mining company in the asteroid belt. Now she spends her days investigating petty crimes to help her employer maximize its profits. She’s surprised to hear from an old friend and fellow victim of the terrorist attack that ruined her life–and that surprise quickly turns to suspicion when he claims to have discovered something shocking about their shared history and the tragedy that neither of them can leave behind.
Before Hester can learn more, her friend is violently murdered at a remote asteroid mine. Hester joins the investigation to find the truth, both about her friend’s death and the information he believed he had uncovered. But catching a killer is only the beginning of Hester’s worries, and she soon realizes that everything she learns about her friend, his fellow miners, and the outpost they call home brings her closer to revealing secrets that very powerful and very dangerous people would rather keep hidden in the depths of space.
Dead Space by Kali Wallace. Releases in March 2021 from Berkley Books. I had a great time last year with Wallace’s Salvation Day, and this sounds like a fantastic space opera/thriller!
Set on a near-future Earth and on the alien homeworld of S’hudon, Rick Wilber’s Alien Day explores murderous sibling rivalries, old-school mercantile colonialism, ambition, greed, and the saving strength that can emerge from reluctant heroes called to do the right thing despite the odds.
Will Peter Holman rescue his sister Kait, or will she be the one to rescue him? Will Chloe Cary revive her acting career with the help of the princeling Treble, or will the insurgents take both their lives? Will Whistle or Twoclicks wind up in charge of Earth, and how will the Mother, who runs all of S’hudon, choose between them? And the most important question of all: who are the Old Ones that left all that technology behind for the S’hudonni . . . and what if they come back?
Alien Day by Rick Wilber. Releases in June 2021 from Tor Books. OK this blurb is on the vague side, but I’m getting the impression of an epic sci-fi story. Sign me up!
Can you love someone you don’t remember?
After the Last War destroyed most of the world, survivors form a new society in four self-sustaining cities in the Mojave Desert. In the utopia of the Four Cities, inspired by the lyrics of “Imagine” and Buddhist philosophy, everything is carefully planned and controlled: the seasons, the weather—and the residents. To prevent mankind from destroying each other again, its citizens undergo a memory wipe every four years in a process called tabula rasa, a blank slate, to remove learned prejudices. With each new cycle, they begin again with new names, jobs, homes, and lives. No memories. No attachments. No wars.
Aris, a scientist who shuns love, embraces tabula rasa and the excitement of unknown futures. Walling herself off from emotional attachments, she only sees relationships as pointless and avoids deep connections. But she is haunted by a recurring dream that becomes more frequent and vivid as time passes. After meeting Benja, a handsome free-spirited writer who believes his dreams of a past lover are memories, her world is turned upside down. Obsessed with finding the Dreamers, a secret organization thought to have a way to recover memories, Benja draws her down a dangerous path toward the past. When Metis, the leader of the Dreamers, appears in Aris’s life, everything she believes falls to pieces. With little time left before the next tabula rasa, they begin a bittersweet romance, navigating love in a world where names, lives, and moments are systematically destroyed.
Thought-provoking and emotionally resonant, Reset will make you consider the haunting reality of love and loss, and the indelible marks they leave behind.
Reset by Sarina Dahlan. Releases in May 2021 from Blackstone Publishing. This sounds amazing! Such a cool idea, to wipe everyone’s memories every four years. I can’t wait to read this:-D
Remy is a Chorister, one of the chosen few rescued from the surface world and raised to sing the Hours in a choir of young boys. Remy lives with a devoted order of monks who control the Leviathan, an aging nuclear submarine that survives in the ocean’s depths. Their secret mission: to trigger the Second Coming when the time is right, ready to unleash its final, terrible weapon.
But Remy has a secret too— she’s the only girl onboard. It is because of this secret that the sub’s dying caplain gifts her with the missile’s launch key, saying that it is her duty to keep it safe. Safety, however, is not the sub’s priority, especially when the new caplain has his own ideas about the Leviathan’s mission. Remy’s own perspective is about to shift drastically when a surface-dweller is captured during a raid, and she learns the truth about the world.
At once lyrical and page-turning, We Shall Sing a Song Into the Deep is a captivating debut from newcomer author Andrew Kelly Stewart.
We Shall Sing a Song Into the Deep by Andrew Kelly Stewart. Releases in March 2021 from Tor.com Publishing. Wow, I mean come on. This sounds amazing too! A choir, a submarine and the Second Coming? How do you fit all these things into one story? We’ll have to read it to find out:-D
I already saw Dead Space mentioned and was intrigued by the premise, but had not yet connected the author’s name with the previous Salvation Day! This makes it even more imperative for me to read the book… 🙂
And Alien Day sounds just as good… Thanks for sharing!
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Lots of awesome sounding SF books coming, I think 2021 is going to be fantastic:-)
I like the sound of them all, but Reset is the one that particularly intrigues me. I think the premise is fascinating, but also a bit creepy . . . It should make for an emotional and intense read! Great picks, Tammy 🙂
I know, I’m so curious to see how the author does with that idea of resetting people every four years.
As usual these all sound freaking amazing! I especially like the sound of Reset and We Shall Sing a Song Into the Deep
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I’m dying to read all of them, but I’m very curious about Reset:-)
They all sound pretty good! Now all I have to do is clear some time next year to read them that being said, “Alien Day” is a ridiculous title
LOL I kind of agree with you;-)
I’m must drawn to Dead Space, but you’re right, each one does pique the curiousity.
Dead Space is bound to be good, I just loved the author’s last book:-)
Some great picks this week! Reset sounds fascinating, but it’s We Shall Sing a Song Into the Deep that immediately leaps onto the must-read list. Fantastic!
I agree, such a unique premise:-)
Ooh. All look good, but the submarine one feels like a must-read to me!
I know, me too. I’m just so curious!
Dead Space sounds fantastic! Science fiction thriller is one of my favourite subgenres.
Me too, and I loved her last book, so it should be good:-)
More fun books to add to my wish list! 🙂 We Shall Sing a Song Into the Deep sounds really good. I love the idea of a choir on a submarine–and Remy’s secret too! Reset also really appeals to me. I hope you enjoy all of these when you read them, Tammy!
I’ve got to see how the author does with “choir” and “submarine” in the same book!
Oh wow! They are all fabulous – I love the sound of every single one of these books, Tammy:)). Thank you for sharing!
I think this is a particularly good bunch myself:-)
Oooh! I love all of these science fiction covers! Great picks!
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Thanks Ronyell!
Dead Space is one I want to check out. And am I strange but when I first saw We Shall Sing a Song Into the Deep I immediately thought it was a Wayward Children book! I may need help – haha.
I totally get the Wayward Children thing! lol and it’s the same publisher:-)
Yay, I have all these on my list!
Wow, Tammy, I’m intrigued by all of them. Reset is drawing me in most of all, and I love that cover.
Alien Day and Sing A Song caught my attention right away. I’d like to try all of these! LOL
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Reset has me REALLY fascinated! Also that cover! Hope you get to enjoy some of these, Tammy!
Dead Space sounds really good!
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They seems all great reading, but Dead Space seems really intriguing!!
I haven’t read Salvation Day yet, but I love Kali’s Shallow Graves. I can’t wait for the new one!
Another great post with some lovely looking books. My tbr is groaning!
Lynn