Future Fiction #137 – 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


As usual, Tor.com is on point with cover reveals! Take a look:


The sisters of the Order of Saint Rita navigate the far reaches of space and challenges of faith in the follow-up to Sisters of the Vast Black, winner of the Golden Crown Literary Society Award.

“We lit the spark, maybe we should be here for the flames.”

Not long ago, Earth’s colonies and space stations threw off the yoke of planet Earth’s tyrannical rule. Decades later, trouble is brewing in the Four Systems, and Old Earth is flexing its power in a bid to regain control over its lost territories.

The Order of Saint Rita—whose mission is to provide aid and mercy to those in need—bore witness to and defied Central Governance’s atrocities on the remote planet Phyosonga III. The sisters have been running ever since, staying under the radar while still trying to honor their calling.

Despite the sisters’ secrecy, the story of their defiance is spreading like wildfire, spearheaded by a growing anti-Earth religious movement calling for revolution. Faced with staying silent or speaking up, the Order of Saint Rita must decide the role they will play—and what hand they will have—in reshaping the galaxy.

Sisters of the Forsaken Stars by Lina Rather. Releases in February 2022 from Tor.com. I absolutely loved Sisters of the Vast Black, and I’m so excited for this follow up! Not sure if it’s considered a direct sequel or not, and the blurb is pretty vague, but it doesn’t really matter. Rather’s world is so unique, I will read anything she writes!


Seattle, 1929—a bitterly divided city overflowing with wealth, violence, and magic.

A respected magus and city leader intent on criminalizing Seattle’s most vulnerable magickers hires a young woman as a lady’s companion to curb his rebellious daughter’s outrageous behavior.

The widowed owner of a speakeasy encounters an opportunity to make her husband’s murderer pay while she tries to keep her shapeshifter brother safe.

A notorious thief slips into the city to complete a delicate and dangerous job that will leave chaos in its wake.

One thing is for certain—comeuppance, eventually, waits for everyone

Comeuppance Served Cold by Marion Deeds. Releases in March 2022 from Tor.com. There seems to be a trend lately of fantasy books set in the 1920s, and I’m here for it! Seriously, just put the word “speakeasy” in your blurb and I’m going to read it:-D


From the acclaimed and award-winning author of The Hunger and The Deep comes a new psychological and supernatural twist on the horrors of the Japanese American internment camps in World War II.

1944: As World War II rages on, the threat has come to the home front. In a remote corner of Idaho, Meiko Briggs and her daughter, Aiko, are desperate to return home. Following Meiko’s husband’s enlistment as an air force pilot in the Pacific months prior, Meiko and Aiko were taken from their home in Seattle and sent to one of the internment camps in the Midwest. It didn’t matter that Aiko was American-born: They were Japanese, and therefore considered a threat by the American government.

Mother and daughter attempt to hold on to elements of their old life in the camp when a mysterious disease begins to spread among those interned. What starts as a minor cold quickly becomes spontaneous fits of violence and aggression, even death. And when a disconcerting team of doctors arrive, nearly more threatening than the illness itself, Meiko and her daughter team up with a newspaper reporter and widowed missionary to investigate, and it becomes clear to them that something more sinister is afoot, a demon from the stories of Meiko’s childhood, hell-bent on infiltrating their already strange world.

Inspired by the Japanese yokai and the jorogumo spider demon, The Fervor explores a supernatural threat beyond what anyone saw coming; the danger of demonization, a mysterious contagion, and the search to stop its spread before it’s too late.

The Fervor by Alma Katsu. Releases in April 2022 from G. Putnam’s Sons. I still haven’t read Katsu’s last book, although it was a spy thriller which doesn’t really appeal to me. But this one is reminding me a little of The Hunger, which I loved.


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

Posted August 11, 2021 by Tammy in Future Fiction / 36 Comments

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36 responses to “Future Fiction #137 – Cover Reveals & Newly Discovered SFF Books

  1. JonBob

    Well, yet another week where my TBR expands thanks to Future Fiction. Not only am I adding Sisters of the Forsaken Stars, but also Sisters of the Vast Black, which was one of those I’d seen people talking about but never looked into properly. And the Fervor sounds intense! Spider demons and internment camps is quite the horrific combination.

  2. Too funny. I saw Sisters of the Forsaken Stars over at tor.com and placed a pre-order. I thoroughly enjoyed Sisters of the Vast Black and really look forward to further exploring that universe. Now I just need to wait until February… On a final note, I love that cover, even though and perhaps because I don’t know exactly what it’s showing. I’m hope you’re doing well, Tammy!

    • Tammy

      I love the cover too! Thanks Todd, all is well here, I’m having one of those weeks but it’s almost over:-)

  3. I love the sound of Sisters of the Forsaken Stars, but clearly need to tuck into Sisters of the Vast Black first! I was a bit discouraged when I saw it was a novella – but after reading your rave review, I’m reassured that it will be a cracking read:). Comeuppance Served Cold also sounds like huge fun – my favourite of the Cogman Invisible Library series is the one set in 1920s… Thank you for once again sharing some excellent upcoming releases, Tammy!

  4. Fabulous choices! I will definitely want to read The Fervor, and I think I’d want to read Sisters of the Forsaken Stars too. I read Sisters of the Vast Black, but barely remember any details, so I’d need a refresher. The comeuppance book looks like fun!

  5. Tor always kills the covers. Dare I want to try another Katsu book? Might be a new candidate for all my lists – I’m getting tired of using The Hunger all the time. Although it is a classic.

  6. verushka

    Between the cover and the blurb (1920s!!) I am so hooked on Comeuppance Served Cold — how good does it sound?!?

  7. The Fervor and Sisters are both on my MUST read list, because like you, I loved Lina’s first novella, and The Hunger by Alma Katsu! I agree completely, The Fervor does sound more like The Hunger than some of her newer books, which I am very here for. I liked the Titanic one, but I wasn’t interested in the mystery thing. I also LOVE the cover for Sisters, and I need to go check out Comeuppance Served Cold, but regardless, its cover is beyond gorgeous!
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  8. Comeuppance Served Cold sounds like something I would enjoy. Love that 1920’s setting. I also still need to read Sisters of the Vast Black but I remember how much you loved it and hope you’ll enjoy the next book just as much. 🙂

  9. That cover for Sisters of the Forsaken Stars is criminally gorgeous. I’m a sucker for a bit of bioluminescence and I guess I just want to read more planetside science fiction. Space is cool, but alien worlds!!!
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    • Tammy

      I agree, Hannah! There’s something about being on another planet that is both scary and magical:-)

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