Future Fiction #110 – 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

Last week, a ridiculous number of SFF covers were revealed, and it was so hard choosing only three this week! Take a look:

Andrew and Eddie did everything together, best friends bonded more deeply than brothers, until Eddie left Andrew behind to start his graduate program at Vanderbilt. Six month later, only days before Andrew was to join him in Nashville, Eddie dies of an apparent suicide. He leaves Andrew a horrible inheritance: a roommate he doesn’t know, friends he never asked for, and a gruesome phantom with bleeding wrists that mutters of revenge.

As Andrew searches for the truth of Eddie’s death, he uncovers the lies and secrets left behind by the person he trusted most, discovering a family history soaked in blood and death. Whirling between the backstabbing academic world where Eddie spent his days and the circle of hot boys, fast cars, and hard drugs that ruled Eddie’s nights, the walls Andrew has built against the world begin to crumble, letting in the phantom that hungers for him.

Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo. Releases in September 2021 from Tor.com. Oh hell yes to this one! Southern Gothic horror and a great cover too. If there was a perfect book for me, this might be it! Plus, an Alix E. Harrow blurb? I’m even more excited:-D

This psychological sci-fi thriller from a debut author follows one doctor who must discover the source of her crew’s madness… or risk succumbing to it herself.

Misanthropic psychologist Dr. Grace Park is placed on the Deucalion, a survey ship headed to an icy planet in an unexplored galaxy. Her purpose is to observe the thirteen human crew members aboard the ship–all specialists in their own fields–as they assess the colonization potential of the planet, Eos. But frictions develop as Park befriends the androids of the ship, preferring their company over the baffling complexity of humans, while the rest of the crew treats them with suspicion and even outright hostility.

Shortly after landing, the crew finds themselves trapped on the ship by a radiation storm, with no means of communication or escape until it passes–and that’s when things begin to fall apart. Park’s patients are falling prey to waking nightmares of helpless, tongueless insanity. The androids are behaving strangely. There are no windows aboard the ship. Paranoia is closing in, and soon Park is forced to confront the fact that nothing–neither her crew, nor their mission, nor the mysterious Eos itself–is as it seems.

We Have Always Been Here by Lena Nguyen. Releases in July 2021 from DAW Books. This sounds like my kind of story exactly! I guess it’s a good week for cover reveals because I want to read them all, lol. OK so seeing the name “Grace Park” reminds me of Battlestar Galactica, but otherwise I can’t wait to read this!

A terrifying new thriller from bestseller Catherynne M. Valente, for fans of Gone Girl and Spinning Silver

Sophia was made for him. Her perfect husband. She can feel it in her bones. He is perfect. Their home together in Arcadia Gardens is perfect. Everything is perfect.

It’s just that he’s away so much. So often. He works so hard. She misses him. And he misses her. He says he does, so it must be true. He is the perfect husband and everything is perfect.

But sometimes Sophia wonders about things. Strange things. Dark things. The look on her husband’s face when he comes back from a long business trip. The questions he will not answer. The locked basement she is never allowed to enter. And whenever she asks the neighbors, they can’t quite meet her gaze…

But everything is perfect. Isn’t it?

Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M. Valente. Releases in October 2021 from Tor.com. I’m a little sad that this is just a novella, because doesn’t it sound so good? Valente always manages to surprise me, and I’m so excited for this one.

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

Posted February 3, 2021 by Tammy in Future Fiction / 49 Comments

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49 responses to “Future Fiction #110 – Cover Reveals & Newly Discovered SFF Books”

  4. sjhigbee

    I love the sound of We Have Always Been Here and Cathrynne Valente is always worth reading – though like you, I’d rather this one wasn’t a novella… As ever, a TBR-busting selection that tempts me to go and get the new and shiny – thank you for sharing, Tammy:)).

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  7. todd

    The locked basement she’s never allowed to enter. Yeeaaaahhhhh, right. Everything is perfect. Nothing could possibly be wrong with that. 🙂

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  16. Literary Feline

    The Comfort Me With Apples cover really stands out for me and it sounds good too! The other two also sound like they will be good! I hope you enjoy all of these when you read them, Tammy!

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  21. Mogsy @ BiblioSanctum

    I also saw a bunch of new Tor.com covers this week! The one for Catherynne M. Valente’s book was one of them, and it definitely caught my eye, though I’ll probably wait to see how accurate the “one Girl and Spinning Silver” description is before picking it up, lol.

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  26. Lisa @ waytoofantasy

    Well these ALL look amazing and like books I want to dive into. On the one hand yay, we’re so lucky to have a plethora of books to choose from. On the other hand, sad face because we can’t possibly read them all! (going to try nonetheless haha)

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