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
Three new cover reveals! Take a look:
From an electrifying new voice in horror comes the haunting tale of a woman whose life begins to unravel after a home invasion.
Possession is an addiction.Sydney’s spent years burying her past and building a better life for herself and her young son. A respectable marketing job, a house with reclaimed and sustainable furniture, and a boyfriend who loves her son and accepts her, flaws and all.
But when she opens her front door, and a masked intruder knocks her briefly unconscious, everything begins to unravel.
She wakes in the hospital and tells a harrowing story of escape. Of dashing out a broken window. Of running into her neighbors’ yard and calling the police.
The cops tell her a different story. Because the intruder is now lying dead in her guest room—murdered in a way that looks intimately personal.
Sydney can’t remember killing the man. No one believes her.
Back home, as horrific memories surface, an unnatural darkness begins whispering in her ear. Urging her back to old addictions and a past she’s buried to build a better life for herself and her son.
As Sydney searches for truth among the wreckage of a past that won’t stay buried for long, the unquiet darkness begins to grow. To change into something unimaginable.
To reveal terrible cravings of its own.
The Seven Visitations of Sydney Burgess by Andy Marino. Releases in September 2021 from Redhook. Apologies to those of you who aren’t into horror. I know I’ve been featuring a lot of it lately! But I can’t help it, there are a ton of great sounding horror titles coming out this year. This sounds super twisty and fun!
From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a pulse-pounding neo-noir that reimagines vampire lore.
Welcome to Mexico City, an oasis in a sea of vampires. Domingo, a lonely garbage-collecting street kid, is just trying to survive its heavily policed streets when a jaded vampire on the run swoops into his life. Atl, the descendant of Aztec blood drinkers, is smart, beautiful, and dangerous. Domingo is mesmerized.Atl needs to quickly escape the city, far from the rival narco-vampire clan relentlessly pursuing her. Her plan doesn’t include Domingo, but little by little, Atl finds herself warming up to the scrappy young man and his undeniable charm. As the trail of corpses stretches behind her, local cops and crime bosses both start closing in.
Vampires, humans, cops, and criminals collide in the dark streets of Mexico City. Do Atl and Domingo even stand a chance of making it out alive? Or will the city devour them all?
Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Releases in September 2021 from Tor Nightfire. Wow, I was so excited to see this cover reveal the other day! In case you aren’t aware, this is a re-release of the 2016 edition published by Thomas Dunne Books. I’m loving this cover by one of my favorite artists, John Picacio, it’s so different from the first one! I’m definitely planning on rereading this when it’s released, and I’m definitely getting a copy of this edition. I reviewed this back in 2016 and you can read my review here.
Mad Max meets X-Men in this razor-sharp new dystopian novella by the Philip K Dick award nominated author of Velocity Weapon.
It doesn’t matter what you call her. Riley. Burner. She forgot her name long ago. But if you steal from the supply lines crossing the wasteland, her face is the last one you’ll see. She is the force of nature that keeps the balance in the hot arid desert. Keep to yourself and she’ll leave you well enough alone. But it’s when you try to take more than you can chew that her employers notice and send her off to restore the balance. Then she gets the latest call. A supply truck knocked over too cleanly. Too precise. And the bodies scattering the wreckage weren’t killed by her normal prey of scavengers. These bodies are already rotting hours after the attack. Cowering in the corner of the wreckage is a young girl. A girl that shouldn’t be there. A girl with violently blue eyes. Just like hers.
The First Omega by Megan E. O’Keefe. Releases in March 2021 from Orbit Books. This literally came out of nowhere! I usually feature books months ahead of their publication date, but this will be released at the end of March, so you don’t have to wait long. Also, this is a rare novella from Orbit, and I’m anxious to read it. Those of you who enjoyed O’Keefe’s Velocity Weapon might be interested in this, I know I am!
Definitely excited to read a new book from Megan O’Keefe!
Me too, I still haven’t gotten around to Chaos Vector, but maybe I’ll read this first:-)
Certain Dark Things sound fascinating.
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It’s fantastic!
Oh my! Between that amazing cover for Certain Dark Things and the news of the next O’Keefe novel (which sounds just perfect for my tastes), you just made my day! 😉
And that horror novel does not look at all bad, either!
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The cover for CERTAIN DARK THINGS is just STUNNING!!!!
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Excited for every single one of these! I’m really enjoying all the upcoming horror you’ve been highlighting recently, it’s a genre I’d like to read a lot more of personally and your picks always sound so good!
Certain Dark Things is on my grimdark reading list for Wyrd & Wonder. Whether it conforms to traditional grimdark expectations I don’t know, but I’ve seen it featured on a few grimdark lists and wanted to include some books that aren’t your average fantasy grimdark fare. Will read your review later tonight but would you say it has grimdark elements? (Also that new cover )
Thanks JonBob! Certain Dark Things is very dark! Definitely fall under the category of grimdark. And I agree, there is so much good horror coming out, it’s hard not to talk about it:-)
All of these sound promising. When I saw the cover and read the description of Certain Dark Things my first thought was Blade Runner with vampires. 🙂
I agree that cover has a Blade Runner feel to it. Actually, the story isn’t anything like Blade Runner, it’s set in the present day, I think, but a present with ten different species of vampires:-)
Wow, another new book by Silvia Moreno-Garcia? She is on a roll!
She really is!
I’m creeped out by just reading the synopsis of The Seven Visitations of Sydney Burgess. Certain Dark Things got me intrigued because VAMPIRES! And The First Omega sounds badass!
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Certain Dark Things is such a fantastic vampire story!
The first one has my favorite cover this week, and sounds the most like the one I’d want to read! Thanks for sharing these as well as visiting my Wednesday post earlier!
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I love that cover too, Lisa:-)
The last cover is amazing!!!
I know, so bright and eye catching!
Andy Marino’s book sounds really good. Love that cover. And I also really like the cover of Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s book. I have only read her Mexican Gothic but definitely want to read more of her work. Thank you for sharing! Have a great day, Tammy!
I really love the Marino cover too, so intriguing:-)
Definitely excited for Certain Dark Things! So happy it’s being re-released!
Me too, it deserves a wider audience:-)
Oh man! You always pick out the most beautiful covers! Great picks!
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These sound good and you know how much I love Certain Dark Things. Maybe I should plan a re-read as well. I’m excited to see more people get a chance to love this book. I’m not sure about the cover. It’s lovely but I’m still partial to the first. Of course this one has Cualli on the front so that’s a plus. And the Marino book sounds good and that cover is kind of creepy. I saw bring on the horror!
The cover is very different but it’s growing on my, and yay for Cualli on the front!
Whoa! That cover for Certain Dark Things is awesome!
I saw the cover reveal for the new Nightfire edition of Certain Dark Things earlier this week too, and I was floored. So much cooler and more interesting than the original!
And so different! Like it’s not even the same book, lol. And I agree, it fits the story much better.
I’m really glad to see Certain Dark Things released again. And I’ve never met a John Picacio cover I didn’t like. A re-read is definitely in order 🙂
I agree, John Picacio is such a unique artist, I’m so glad he did this cover.
I have been getting into horror a lot lately, so I”m excited whenever you introduce a new horror, haha. The Seven Visitations sounds so interesting! That cover for Certain Dark THings really is so different, but I like it! I also hadn’t heard of The First Omega, haha–a good surprise!
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The First Omega was a surprise to me too!
Certain Dark Things was a book I was already looking forward to. That cover is amazing 😀
It’s so good! And yes that cover is really oool.
I’m really excited to see a reissue of Certain Dark Things! Although I do think I have an ebook from when it was first published that I still haven’t gotten to yet (of course I do because I’m me LOL).
I’m kicking myself for not buying the original hardcover of Certain Dark Things. I read the eARC and I hear the hardback is now a collector’s item.
These all look good especially Certain Dark Things, I’ve still to read Mexican Gothic and I’m hoping to score an arc of her new book The Beautiful Ones, I’ll add this one to my list.
I haven’t read The Beautiful Ones yet but I want to:-)
Certain Dark Things has a beautiful cover! And the synopsis seems interesting, too! Thanks for sharing them!!
I love the cover too!
I spotted the cover for Certain Dark Things this weekend and came to a full stop. I’d been avoiding requesting because I do NOT need more books right now, but that cover certainly made me go “…..maybe I can make an exception.”
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I think I preferred the original Certain Dark Things cover but I’m so happy that the author’s books are being re-released. And I love the cover for the Megan O’Keefe book.
Lynn 😀