Future Fiction # 107 – 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


This week, an exciting sequel and two new standalones:


The third book in the acclaimed Carter Archives noir fantasy series returns to the gritty town of Titanshade, where danger lurks around every corner.

Forbidden magic, murder… and disco. Carter’s day keeps getting worse.

With the return of spring, new life floods into Titanshade. The sun climbs higher and stays longer, the economy is ascendant, and ever more newcomers arrive to be part of the city’s rebirth. Even pop culture has taken notice, with a high-profile concert only days away. When a band member’s murder threatens to delay the show, the diva star performer demands that the famous Detective Carter work the case. But Carter has secrets of his own, and his investigation unearths more victims and dark secrets, triggering a spiral of deceit, paranoia, and nightmarish magical transformations.

As conspiracies are exposed, Carter is sucked even deeper into the machinations of the rich, the powerful, and the venerated. Soon the very foundations of the city threaten to collapse and Carter’s own freedom is on the line as he navigates between old enemies and fragile new alliances while racing to learn the true cause of this horrific series of deaths.

Titan Song (The Carter Archives #3) by Dan Stout. Releases in April 2021 from DAW Books. I love this series, you guys! I can hardly wait to dive back into Stout’s amazing fantasy world. The description doesn’t really say anything about the series concluding, so I’m hoping there will be even more adventures for Carter!


Rabbits is a mysterious alternate reality game so vast it uses our global reality as its canvas.

Since the game first started in 1959, ten iterations have appeared and nine winners have been declared. The identity of these winners are unknown.

So is their reward, which is whispered to be NSA or CIA recruitment, vast wealth, immortality, or perhaps even the key to unlocking the secrets of the universe itself.

But the deeper you get, the more deadly the game becomes. Players have died in the past–and the body count is rising.

And now the eleventh round is about to begin.

Enter K–a Rabbits obsessive who has been trying to find a way into the game for years. That path opens when K is approached by billionaire Alan Scarpio, the alleged winner of the sixth iteration. Scarpio says that something has gone wrong with the game and that K needs to fix it before Eleven starts, or the whole world will pay the price.

Five days later, Scarpio is declared missing.

Two weeks after that, K blows the deadline and Eleven begins.

And suddenly, the fate of the entire universe is at stake.

Rabbits by Terry Miles. Releases in June 2021 from Del Rey Books. I think this sounds like a blast! Miles is a podcaster and I believe this is his debut novel. I’m so intrigued, I can’t wait:-)


A reluctant medium discovers the ties that bind can unleash a dangerous power in this compelling Malaysian-set contemporary fantasy.

Jessamyn Teoh is closeted, broke and moving back to Malaysia, a country she left when she was a toddler. So when Jess starts hearing voices, she chalks it up to stress. But there’s only one voice in her head, and it claims to be the ghost of her estranged grandmother, Ah Ma. In life Ah Ma was a spirit medium, the avatar of a mysterious deity called the Black Water Sister. Now she’s determined to settle a score against a gang boss who has offended the god–and she’s decided Jess is going to help her do it.

Drawn into a world of gods, ghosts, and family secrets, Jess finds that making deals with capricious spirits is a dangerous business. As Jess fights for retribution for Ah Ma, she’ll also need to regain control of her body and destiny. If she fails, the Black Water Sister may finish her off for good.

Black Water Sister by Zen Cho. Releases in May 2021 from Ace Books. I need to read more Zen Cho, and this sounds like the perfect book for that small goal. I enjoy stories where some kind of entity is taking over the brain of the protagonist, and I love that the voice in Jessamyn’s head is her grandmother’s!


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

Posted January 13, 2021 by Tammy in Future Fiction / 43 Comments

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43 responses to “Future Fiction # 107 – Cover Reveals & Newly Discovered SFF Books

    • Tammy

      I’m curious about Rabbits as well, it seems like he also has a lot of screenplay writing experience.

  1. Margo

    I’ve enjoyed everything I’ve read by Zen Cho, so Black Water Sister is definitely on my TBR. That cover really catches the eye!

  2. Yay! A new Titan book. Even if I do still need to read the second one. I thought for sure you’d be featuring the new Kira Jane Buxton sequel this week. Can’t believe I beat you to it. I know how much we both want that one! Rabbits sounds good as well – odd, but good.

  3. Black Water Sister sounds right up my alley. I am adding that to my wish list right now. It sounds so good! I hope you get a chance to read all of these and love them, Tammy!

  4. What a wonderful list. But I’ve just looked up Titanshade… and it’s only available in hardback, or audio CDs:((. Hopefully, the series will at some stage become ebooks and then I will snap them up! Thank you for sharing, Tammy.

    • Tammy

      Oh shoot. I do hope it becomes available as an ebook. That would be a shame. I think you’d enjoy this series:-)

  5. I would love to read the Titan’s Day series and in fact have had the book on my wishlist since your original glowing review – BUT, they are not available to buy in ebook format or audio which is a real shame because I rarely read physical books any more and so I know if I buy them in that format they won’t be read. I keep my fingers crossed though.
    Lynn 😀

  6. verushka

    Aaaah, I completely missed book 2 in the Titan shade series!! I haven’t been able to get into Zen Cho’s work before now, so I am seriously hoping Black Water Sister changes that for me — it sounds fantastic!

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