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
I really love my picks this week. I’m veering off my usual publishers to bring you three slightly different books, including one self-published book I’m very excited about, take a look:
We always thought we were the first.
When paleontologists Samira and Kit uncover dinosaur skeletons in northern Thailand, they also find the remains of an ancient genetic technology that nations will kill to control. Catapulted into a web of murder and intrigue involving the Chinese Ministry of State Security, a powerful Asian crime syndicate, the CIA, and a beautiful Thai princess, Samira and Kit don’t know who they can trust. Torn apart by competing factions and stranded on opposite sides of the world, they race to discover the truth before the world goes to war. Can they bring the past to life before it kills them all?
Living Memory is the first book of a globe-spanning thriller series by the author of The Genius Plague.
Living Memory by David Walton. Self-published, releases in October 2022. I was so excited when David contacted me and asked if I’d like to read his latest book. I mean, of course! I have loved all of his books I’ve read in the past, especially Three Laws Lethal which was one of my favorite books of 2019. He’s self publishing this time, due to reasons, and Living Memory is the first in a new trilogy. I cannot wait, also check out the cool cover!
“Twelve years ago he had met Fern and the things had arrived, nameless then, crooning and sniggering as they swarmed around her, scrabbling at the catches of what was real.”The walls of our world are thin, and in places they start to break down.
A new love affair awakens a host of malignant things on the fringes of a young man’s vision.
An academic uncovers an ancient song with the power to change reality.
A violent computer game turns into an obsession, bleeding into the waking world.This debut collection from Sam Thompson (Communion Town, longlisted for the Booker Prize) explores the cracks in the fabric of our existence, the hinterlands where the mundane meets the strange.
Drawing upon writers like Robert Aickman and Thomas Ligotti, Whirlwind Romance creates a landscape all its own – a place where a single moment can be the catalyst to turn the very nature of reality upside down.
Breathtaking, poetic, and yet shot through with an unsettling darkness, it confirms Thompson’s place as a major talent.
Whirlwind Romance by Sam Thompson. Releases in April 2022 from Unsung Stories. I caught this cover reveal on The Fantasy Hive, and I knew I had to add it to my list. Unsung Stories is a small UK publisher and their books are top notch, high quality SFF. I’m looking forward to this short story collection, and look closely at the cover. You’ll see an unsettling image hidden in the letters of the book title!
Big Little Lies meets The Witches of Eastwick—a gloriously entertaining and knife-sharp feminist revenge fantasy about three women whose midlife crisis brings unexpected new powers—putting them on a collision course with the evil that lurks in their wealthy beach town.
In the Long Island oceanfront community of Mattauk, three different women discover that midlife changes bring a whole new type of empowerment…
After Nessa James’s husband dies and her twin daughters leave for college, she’s left all alone in a trim white house not far from the ocean. In the quiet of her late forties, the former nurse begins to hear voices. It doesn’t take long for Nessa to realize that the voices calling out to her belong to the dead—a gift she’s inherited from her grandmother, which comes with special responsibilities.
On the cusp of 50, suave advertising director Harriett Osborne has just witnessed the implosion of her lucrative career and her marriage. She hasn’t left her house in months, and from the outside, it appears as if she and her garden have both gone to seed. But Harriet’s life is far from over—in fact, she’s undergone a stunning and very welcome metamorphosis.
Ambitious former executive Jo Levison has spent thirty long years at war with her body. The free-floating rage and hot flashes that arrive with the beginning of menopause feel like the very last straw—until she realizes she has the ability to channel them, and finally comes into her power.
Guided by voices only Nessa can hear, the trio of women discover a teenage girl whose body was abandoned beside a remote beach. The police have written the victim off as a drug-addicted sex worker, but the women refuse to buy into the official narrative. Their investigation into the girl’s murder leads to more bodies, and to the town’s most exclusive and isolated enclave, a world of stupendous wealth where the rules don’t apply. With their newfound powers, Jo, Nessa, and Harriet will take matters into their own hands…
The Change by Kirsten Miller. Releases in May 2022 from William Morrow. The Witches of Eastwick with three menopausal women? OMG this sounds amazing! Well, maybe it only sounds amazing to women of a certain age, but I’m definitely checking this out!
Living Memory looks like it has everything! Thanks for the intro!
I hope more people will discover David Walton!
Living Memory sounds fun. A hard science fiction creature feature international thriller, what’s not to like?
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And in Walton’s hands it’s bound to be a lot of fun!
It’s interesting to see David Walton going the self-pubished route this time. I don’t think I’ve tried any of his books yet.
Several authors that used to be with this particular publisher have gone off on their own, so I understand why he’s self publishing. His books have a lot of interesting science, but they are a lot of fun too. I can’t recommend Three Laws Lethal enough!
Whirlwind Romance sounds intriguing. Here’s mine https://veganbookblogger.wordpress.com/2022/02/23/994/
Thanks for visiting, Deanne:-)
The Change sounds amazing! That’s one I would definitely read.
I know! How often do you find a combo of witches and menopause, lol.
The Dino book looks cool! 🙂
Doesn’t it? I’m so excited to read it, Walton is great:-)
Living Memory sounds really intriguing–and what a cover! Really curious about Whirlwind Romance as well, I’m loving what’s going on with that cover!
I agree, the cover of Whirlwind Romance is so intriguing, and a little disturbing too…
The first one is intriguing. Enjoy!
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It does, thanks Emma!
I think most of us women at a “certain age” are excited for Kirsten Miller’s new one. hahaha I certainly am.
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LOL! Normally I wouldn’t be, but this just sounds too cool:-)
As ever, you feature the COOLEST books, Tammy:)). I haven’t encountered David Walton and it sounds as if I should – I shall be checking out his writing. And as for The Change – oooo – how exciting!! Thank you for sharing.
My pleasure! And I think you’d have fun with David Walton. He combines science and action really well:-)
The Change seems really intriguing and gripping!
David Walton is full of great ideas, I can’t wait to check out what he does with dinosaurs!
These all sound excellent, but The Change is really calling to me!
That dinosaur!
Also The Change has my name on it.
Lynn 😀