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
Two cover reveals from Tor.com, and an adult debut from a popular YA author, take a look:
This near-future epic by the internationally celebrated Samit Basu pulls no punches as it comes for your anxieties about society, government, the environment, and our world at large—yet never loses sight of the hopeful potential of the future.
“They’d known the end times were coming but hadn’t known they’d be multiple choice.”
Joey is a Reality Controller in near future Delhi. Her job is to supervise the multimedia multi-reality livestreams of Indi, one of South Asia’s fastest rising online celebrities—who also happens to be her college ex. Joey’s job gives her considerable culture-power, but she’s too caught up in day-to-day crisis-handling to see this, or to figure out what she wants from her life.
Rudra is a recluse estranged from his wealthy and powerful family, fled to an impoverished immigrant neighborhood where he loses himself in video games and his neighbors’ lives. When his father’s death pulls him back into his family’s orbit, an impulsive job offer from Joey becomes his only escape from the life he never wanted.
But no good deed goes unpunished. As Joey and Rudra become enmeshed in multiple conspiracies, their lives start to spin out of control, complicated by dysfunctional relationships, corporate loyalty, and the never-ending pressures of surveillance capitalism. When a bigger picture begins to unfold around them, they must each decide how to do the right thing in a shadowy world where simply maintaining the status quo feels like an accomplishment. Ultimately, resistance will not—cannot—take the same shape for these two very different people.
The City Inside by Samit Basu. Releases in June 2022 from Tor.com. I just had to share this cover release from last week, it’s so pretty! I’m not familiar with Basu at all, but he’s written a bunch of books. The City Inside was originally published in India, and I’m really looking forward to it.
After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robot sent on a quest to determine what humanity really needs) turn their attention to the villages and cities of the little moon they call home.
They hope to find the answers they seek, while making new friends, learning new concepts, and experiencing the entropic nature of the universe.
Becky Chambers’s new series continues to ask: in a world where people have what they want, does having more even matter?
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot #2) by Becky Chambers. Releases in July 2022 from Tor.com. I really enjoyed A Psalm for the Wild-Built, and I’ll happily continue on another adventure with Dex and Mosscap!
Twins imbued with incredible magic and near-immortality will do anything to keep their family safe—even if it tears the siblings apart—in the first book of a mythic epic fantasy from the New York Times bestselling author of Wilder Girls.
Rhea and her twin brother, Lexos, have spent an eternity helping their father rule their small, unstable country, using their control over the seasons, tides, and stars to keep the people in line. For a hundred years, they’ve been each other’s only ally, defending each other and their younger siblings against their father’s increasingly unpredictable anger.
Now, with an independence movement gaining ground and their father’s rule weakening, the twins must take matters into their own hands to keep their family—and their entire world—from crashing down around them. But other nations are jockeying for power, ready to cross and double cross, and if Rhea and Lexos aren’t careful, they’ll end up facing each other across the battlefield.
In a Garden Burning Gold by Rory Power. Releases in April 2022 from Del Rey Books. I still haven’t read anything by Power, although I’ve certainly been trying to find time, so I’m hoping to check out her first adult fantasy. I love stories with siblings, and I’m very curious about this one!
THE CITY INSIDE looks amazing! And I am excited for the second in the MONK & ROBOT series, too! Great choices.
Tor.com always slays it:-)
They all look promising, but I’m particularly intrigued by In a Garden Burning Gold. I think what also makes me curious about it is that this is her first adult fantasy, so it’s quite exciting! 😀
Yes, I’m curious about Rory Power. I haven’t read her YA yet but I’ve always wanted to try her books.
In a Garden Burning Gold sounds like it could be a good read. Nice picks!
I think so too, plus I want to try Rory Power.
Two completely new authors to me and one I’ve only sampled but very much enjoyed. Each book looks promising.
They do sound promising! Luckily they are far in the future because I wouldn’t have time to read them now anyway, lol.
Ooh, The City Inside and In a Garden Burning Gold sound so good–and I can’t get over how gorgeous these covers are!
They are eye catching for sure:-)
Gorgeous covers! The cover art alone is enough to make me want these books. 🙂 I do want to read A Psalm for the Wild-Built, and seeing there’s a sequel on the way is definitely motivation!
I agree, I love all of these covers:-)
The City Inside has a super eyecatching cover! I remember your review of A Psalm for the Wild-Built so I hope you’ll end up loving A Prayer for the Crown-Shy as well. I love the sound of In a Garden Burning Gold! It’s also has a really beautiful cover!
I love all three covers this week, it’s hard to pick a favorite.
I need to try the Monk and Robot series. 🙂
Thanks for sharing!
It’s really good, hope you can read it!
Oooh, Monk & Robot is gonna be a series? I assumed it was a standalone for some reason! And gosh that 3rd cover is stunning.
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Yes, I’m glad it’s a series!
Positively drooling over these beautiful covers. The Becky Chambers book sounds really good too. I need to read more of her books. I read and loved the first book in the Wayfarers series but that’s as far as I’ve gotten.
The first book in this series was my very first Becky Chambers. I need to catch up with other books now:-)
Oh wow. Love the look of Basu’s book… that cover! Reminds me of the neon-ish cover of Last Night at the Telegraph Club, but totally different genre of course. and the Chambers book… *sputter*
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Basu’s book cover is stunning!
The Rory Power book is so pretty! I’ve read one book by her an d it didn’t go too well, but I’d be willing to give her another try.
Maybe adult will be better…
oh gosh these are all gorgeous covers!
I know, right?
Love the cover of The City Inside! Hope you get these soon!
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Me too, thanks Lisa:-)
All of these are on my list- on my MUST have list too, not just regular heh. I also love the covers- the first two are already in my monthly recap post, so great minds really do think alike! 2022 is really slaying with the sci-fi/fantasy covers, yeah?
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So much gorgeous colour and intriguing design. I have grabby hands.
Lynn 😀