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 exciting new books, take a look:
Strange things happen in The Gulp. The residents have grown used to it.
The isolated Australian harbour town of Gulpepper is not like other places. Some maps don’t even show it. And only outsiders use the full name. Everyone who lives there calls it The Gulp. The place has a habit of swallowing people.
A man enjoying early retirement makes the mistake of visiting The Gulp.
A fishing boat crew find themselves somewhere entirely unexpected.
A farmer has an argument with his wife that turns violent and then entirely catastrophic.
A Venture Scout troop from Enden travel a little too far on their bush excursion.
Everything that’s been getting stranger than usual in The Gulp begins to run completely out of control.Five more novellas. Five more descents into darkness.
Welcome to The Gulp, where nothing is as it seems.
The Fall (Tales from the Gulp #2) by Alan Baxter. Releases in April 2022 (self published). I am beyond excited for this!! I just caught the announcement on Twitter and I knew it had to be the lead off for today’s Future Fiction post. If you love creepy, brutal horror with awesome characters, you’ll love these books. Plus Alan used a blurb of mine on his website for The Gulp, thanks Alan!
A slyly funny, utterly original, triumphantly feminist novel, by the Newbery award-winning author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon, about the Mass Dragoning of 1955 in which 300,000 women spontaneously transform into dragons…and change the world.
Alex Green is a young girl in a world much like ours. But this version of 1950’s America is characterized by a significant event: The Mass Dragoning of 1955, when hundreds of thousands of ordinary wives and mothers sprouted wings, scales and talons, left a trail of fiery destruction in their path, and took to the skies. Seemingly for good. Was it their choice? What will become of those left behind? Why did Alex’s beloved Aunt Marla transform but her mother did not? Alex doesn’t know. It’s taboo to speak of, even more so than her crush on Sonja, her schoolmate.
Forced into silence, Alex nevertheless must face the consequences of dragons: a mother more protective than ever; a father growing increasingly distant; the upsetting insistence that her aunt never even existed; and a new “sister” obsessed with dragons far beyond propriety. Through loss, rage, and self-discovery, this story follows Alex’s journey as she deals with the events leading up to and beyond the Mass Dragoning, and her connection with the phenomenon itself.
In this timely and timeless speculative novel, award-winning author Kelly Barnhill boldly explores rage, memory, and the limitations of girlhood. When Women Were Dragons exposes a world that wants to keep women small–their lives and their prospects–and examines what happens when they rise en masse and take up the space they deserve.
When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill. Releases in May 2022 from Doubleday. This isn’t a publisher I normally follow, but I love the sound of this book. It sounds more literary than speculative, but I’m very curious and I plan to check it out:-)
Magic! Murder! Shipboard romance! The second entry in Freya Marske’s beloved The Last Binding trilogy, the queer historical fantasy series that began with A Marvellous Light
The most interesting things in Maud Blyth’s life have happened to her brother Robin, but she’s ready to join any cause, especially if it involves magical secrets that may threaten the whole of the British Isles. Bound for New York on the R.M.S. Lyric, she’s ready for an adventure.
What she actually finds is a dead body, a disrespectful parrot, and a beautiful stranger in Violet Debenham, who is everything—a magician, an actress, a scandal—Maud has been trained to fear and has learned to desire. Surrounded by the open sea and a ship full of loathsome, aristocratic suspects, they must solve a murder and untangle a conspiracy that began generations before them.
A Restless Truth (The Last Binding #2) by Freya Marske. Releases in November 2022 from Tordotcom. This cover! I’m so glad the cover works well with the first book, A Marvellous Light. I really had fun with that book, and it looks like we’re focusing on different characters this time. Shipboard romance? I think this sounds great:-)
That’s cool that Baxter has a follow up to The Gulp, and so soon. (I popped over and read your quote, nice!)
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I feel like I’ve been waiting forever. I think The Gulp came out in 2020?
A creepy, brutal horror sounds scarily good! But, I must say, I really like the sound of the other two titles you shared as well, and I’m gonna keep an eye on them 😀
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I think all three have potential. Now I just need more time so I can read them all:-)
It seems like this week books share a botanical themes for the covers! And they all are eye-catching!!
You are right, Susy. I mean, it was totally planned! lol
Yes! More “The Gulp”!!! Yes!
I know, I’m so excited!
When Women Were Dragons sounds amazing, it’s my first time hearing about it but the premise is very interesting! 😀
Thank you for putting it on my radar!
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I’m glad I stumbled upon it:-)
The covers for sure look fabulous.
Interesting, another Baxter! Have you read The Flood? scifi by British author Stephen Baxter. Fabulous, well or scary if you see this is the way we are really going…
I have not read The Flood, but I will check it out:-)
I have to look into the first Tales from the Gulp book because I really like the sound of it and this new book too. I love novellas!
When Women Were Dragons has a really interesting premise. I love that they call the event in 1955 The Mass Dragoning.
The whole synopsis of A Restless Truth sounds great but it really hooked me with “disrespectful parrot” LOL
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I missed the “disrespectful parrot” part, lol. Now I want to read it even more!
I still need to read A Marvellous Light! I guess I’d better get to it before the sequel comes out. 🙂 The dragon books sounds amazing!
Doesn’t it? I need to read it, even if it’s more literary than I normally read.
“The Mass Dragoning of 1955, when hundreds of thousands of ordinary wives and mothers sprouted wings, scales and talons, left a trail of fiery destruction in their path, and took to the skies. ”
Oh my! I can think of a few friends who would love to do just that. Especially after the past few years. I’ll have to recommend this to them. They’ll get a kick out of it.
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Ha ha I might be one of those women!
The Fall sounds wild!
It’s going to be wild, if it’s anything like the first book:-)
I did a double-take when I noticed the eye on the cover of When Women Were Dragons. Nicely designed. I have a copy of The Girl Who Drank the Moon on my bookshelf that I had hoped to get to last year. Here’s hoping I will this year. 🙂
I’ve never read her books, so I hope I can read this new one:-)
Lovely selection as ever. Thanks for sharing.
When Women were Dragons definitely appeals – some women still are dragons *roar*. I actually was born on a year of the Chinese Dragon after all.
Lynn 😀
Oh cool. Then you should definitely read this:-)
When Women Were Dragons sounds fantastic!
Doesn’t it? I can hardly wait:-)
Oh cool, I am curious about the Alan Baxter one! The Gulp was different wasn’t a favorite but I am curious to see where things go!
I can’t wait. I am a big fan of The Gulp, it was so different from anything else I’ve read.
Oooh I did not know that A Marvellous Light was a series, that is fun! The cover does match perfectly, too! Dragons is on my TBR, because of course it is hahah. Also The Gulp sounds awesome (very cool that a blurb of yours was used, too), I will have to check it out!
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I only found out after I read A Marvellous Light that there would be a sequel. It sounds so different!
all 3 looks so cool ✌. I’m really excited for sapphic knives out on a boat ( a restless truth)
Isn’t that a great description??
The Restless Truth seems delightful!
The first book was delightful so I’m sure this will be too!