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:
Tense and thrilling, Arthur C. Clarke Award winner Tade Thompson’s new science fiction is an unforgettable vision of humanity’s future among the stars.
The colony ship Ragtime docks in the Lagos system, having traveled light-years from home to bring thousands of sleeping souls to safety among the stars.
Some of the sleepers, however, will never wake – and a profound and sinister mystery unfolds aboard the gigantic vessel as its skeleton crew make decisions that will have repercussions for the entire system – from the scheming politicians of Lagos station to the colony of Nightshade and the poisoned planet of Bloodroot, poised for a civil war.
Far From the Light of Heaven by Tade Thompson. Releases in October 2021 from Orbit Books. Really looking forward to a new SF book from Thompson, after loving his Rosewater series. I swear, 2021 is killing it with awesome science fiction!!
Flowers for the Sea is a dark, dazzling debut novella that reads like Rosemary’s Baby by way of Octavia E. Butler.
We are a people who do not forget.
Survivors from a flooded kingdom struggle alone on an ark. Resources are scant, and ravenous beasts circle. Their fangs are sharp.
Among the refugees is Iraxi: ostracized, despised, and a commoner who refused a prince, she’s pregnant with a child that might be more than human. Her fate may be darker and more powerful than she can imagine.
Zin E. Rocklyn’s extraordinary debut is a lush, gothic fantasy about the prices we pay and the vengeance we seek.
Flowers for the Sea by Zin E. Rocklyn. Releases in October 2021 from Tor.com. First, WOW this cover! Second “Rosemary’s Baby by way of Octavia E. Butler”?? This is a short Tor.com novella, and I am so curious to read it.
This new cli-fi epic chronicles a future NYC wracked by climate change and follows the individuals who must make the most of what remains to survive.
It’s 2110, the Earth’s glaciers have melted, and there’s no climate fix in sight. As refugees stream inland from the inundated coasts, social structures and national economies are stressed to the point of fracture. Food production falters. Pandemics rage. Rising sea level and devastating superstorms have flooded much of Manhattan and wrecked its infrastructure. Its residents have mostly fled, but a few die-hards have bet their survival on the hope that digging in and staying local is a safer strategy.
As the weather worsens, can a damaged population of poor folk, artists, misfits, and loners work out their differences in time to create a sustainable long-term society? In a lawless city, where the well-armed rich have appropriated the high ground, can an ex-priest find a middle road between non-violence and all-out war? The lives of his downtown band of leftovers will depend on it.
Sheltering among them, a young girl named Glimmer struggles to regain a past lost to trauma. As her memory returns, she finds she must choose who and how to be, and who and what to believe in, even if it means giving up a love she has only recently found herself able to embrace.
Glimmer by Marjorie B. Kellogg. Releases in October 2021 from DAW Books. I really enjoy sci-fi climate fiction, so I’m very curious about this one. No feedback yet on Goodreads, so it’s still early days, but I’m definitely keeping my eye on this.
Yay, all three of these are on my watchlist too!
Mogsy @ BiblioSanctum recently posted…Waiting on Wednesday 04/28/21
I’m excited for all of them too:-)
Flowers for the Sea sounds interesting to me. I mean, “pregnant with a child that might be more than human”? Yikes!
Priscilla Bettis recently posted…The Odd Writer
I agree, I’m so curious to read it:-)
I do believe Flowers for the Sea had me at “Rosemary’s Baby by way of Octavia E. Butler”!
Me too!
The cover of Far From the Light of Heaven is SO beautiful! Flowers for the Sea just sounds incredible, OMG! Also, Glimmer sounds like it could partly happen…
Stephanie @ Bookfever recently posted…Can’t-Wait Wednesday: The Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid
Ha ha Glimmer is a bit scary…
Flowers for the Sea sounds great, and that tentacle cover immediately catches the eye. Nice pick!
I love the color combo too!
All three covers are great! Although I think I like the 2nd one best. And the 3rd one has a lot to look through, which I like that about it. Great picks this week! My post is in the link below!
Lisa Mandina (Lisa Loves Literature) recently posted…Lisa’s Looking Forward To #107 – May 4th, 2021
My favorite is the second one as well:-)
Ouuu! Glimmer sounds interesting.
It does! I can’t wait.
The covers for Far from the Light of Heaven and Flowers for the Sea have sharp boundaries. Glimmer is all soft edges. Of course I’m going to read anything by Tade Thompson! The others look good too, although I find myself backing away from near future this world probable stories lately. Melting glaciers and pandemics? Um, no thanks?
I know, those pandemic stories are sort of hard to take right now:-)
Ooh, that Tade Thompson book looks amazing! Flowers for the Sea and Glimmer also sound pretty great also–what a packed year!
Jordan @ Forever Lost in Literature recently posted…Can’t-Wait Wednesday: The Dragon of Jin-Sayeng by K.S. Villoso, The Ones We’re Meant to Find by Joan He, & We Are Satellites by Sarah Pinsker
I know! All that pent up Covid energy from last year is resulting in an amazing 2021:-)
Flowers for the Sea looks like something I’d want to read! And I’m pretty intrigued by the description for Glimmer too. Great choices!
Thanks Lisa! So many good sounding books coming out:-)
Far From the Light of Heaven sounds really good! I hadn’t heard of that one before. The other two sound good too! I hope you enjoy all of these when you read them, Tammy! Happy reading!
The cover of Far From the Light of Heaven was just revealed, so it’s new to me too:-)
Glimmer sounds really good in a terrifying OMG, this could actually happen kind of way, lol.
I know! And that makes me really want to read it:-)
Glimmer and Flowers for the Sun are going on my tbr right now!
They look great, right?
Man! You are always finding such awesome covers! Great picks!
Ronyell (a.k.a Rabbitearsblog) recently posted…Waiting on Wednesday #204: Luck of the Titanic by Stacey Lee and Unwritten by Alicia J. Novo
Thanks Ronyell!
I like climate change stuff too so that one’s a must get. and the Thompson one sounds fabulous. I love colony ship generation ship stories s much.
Greg recently posted…To Love Is Human #6
Thompson is really good, I’ll read anything he writes:-)
Is cli-fi a new genre? It sounds pretty cool.
Laura@Reading Books Again recently posted…Can’t Wait Wednesday #5
I’ve seen lots of books lately calling themselves cli-fi!
These are practically colour co-ordinated. I love the cover for the Tase Thompson book.
Lynn 😀