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
A couple of “cities” and a “hill.” I think this is an impressive bunch of pretty covers, take a look:
On Prospect Hill, you can get nearly anything you want from the Fae—if you know how to ask and if you can pay the price.
There is no magic on Prospect Hill—or anywhere else, for that matter. But just on the other side of the veil is the world of the Fae, and all their magic. Generations ago, the first farmers on Prospect Hill learned to bargain small trades to make their lives a little easier—a bit of glass to find something lost, a cup of milk for better layers in the chicken coop.
Much of that old wisdom has been lost as the riverboats gave way to the rail lines and the farmers took work at the copper works and the cotton mill. Alaine Fairborn’s family, however, was always superstitious, and she still hums the rhymes to find her lost shoe and ensure dry weather on her sister Delphine’s wedding day.
But when Delphine confides her new husband is not the man she thought he was, Alaine will stop at nothing to help her sister escape his abuse. Small bargains buy them time, but the progress of locomotives and factories hasn’t given way to equitable laws for women. A major bargain is needed, but the price for sweeping change may be more than they’re willing to pay.
The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill by Rowenna Miller. Releases in March 2023 from Redhook. This cover was just revealed last week, isn’t is pretty? I’m loving all the historical fantasies that seem to be popping up. I’m definitely checking this out!
Arthur C. Clarke winner and Sunday Times bestseller Adrian Tchaikovsky’s triumphant return to fantasy with a darkly inventive portrait of a city under occupation and on the verge of revolution.
There has always been a darkness to Ilmar, but never more so than now. The city chafes under the heavy hand of the Palleseen occupation, the choke-hold of its criminal underworld, the boot of its factory owners, the weight of its wretched poor and the burden of its ancient curse.
What will be the spark that lights the conflagration?
Despite the city’s refugees, wanderers, murderers, madmen, fanatics and thieves, the catalyst, as always, will be the Anchorwood – that dark grove of trees, that primeval remnant, that portal, when the moon is full, to strange and distant shores.
Ilmar, some say, is the worst place in the world and the gateway to a thousand worse places.
City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Releases in December 2022 from Head of Zeus. I had to share this cover, even though it’s the UK edition. I absolutely love it, and I’m not surprised to see yet another new book from the prolific Tchaikovsky. To be honest I’m not sure about the story and if this will work for me, but I do love the cover:-)
Gotham meets Strange the Dreamer in this thrilling young adult fantasy about a cowardly girl who finds herself at the center of a criminal syndicate conspiracy, in a city where crooked politicians and sinister cults reign and dreaming means waking up as your worst nightmare.
Ever since her sister became a man-eating spider and slaughtered her way through town, nineteen-year-old Ness has been terrified—terrified of some other Nightmare murdering her, and terrified of ending up like her sister. Because in Newham, the city that never sleeps and the only other home Ness has known, dreaming means waking up as your worst fear.
Whether that means becoming a Nightmare that is only monstrous in appearance but is otherwise able to live a semi-normal existence, to transforming into a twisted, unrecognizable creature that terrorizes the citizens of Newham, no one is safe. Ness will do anything to avoid becoming another victim, even if that means lying low among the Friends of the Restful Soul, a seedy organization that may or may not be a cult.
But being a member of the Friends of the Restful Soul has a price. In order to prove herself, Ness cons her way into what’s supposed to be a simple job for the organization—only for it to blow up in her face. Literally. Tangled up in the aftermath of an explosive assassination, Ness and the only other survivor—a Nightmare boy who Ness suspects is planning to eat her—must find their way back to Newham and uncover the sinister truth behind the attack.
City of Nightmares by Rebecca Schaeffer. Releases in January 2023 from Clarion Books. OK this may be YA but I think it sounds fantastic! People who turn into the Nightmares of their dreams? Pretty cool idea, I’m very curious.
I love the premise for City of Nightmares, and even though I share your hesitation about YA, this sounds too intriguing to pass up! Thanks for sharing 🙂
Sometimes you have to take a chance on YA;-)
All three are books I’m adding to my TBR!! Great selections
Thanks!
City of Nightmares sounds freaky and good!
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I agree, definitely keeping an eye on that one:-)
I liked the cover of City of Last Chances.
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It’s very detailed, isn’t it?
Amazing covers!! Of these, I think I’d most want to read The Fairy Bargains, but they all sound good!
Me too, I’m very excited for it:-)
I already feel like I love The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill just because of that title alone. But it also sounds like a really great story. You know I love me some fae books!
The cover is what stands out to me too with City of Last Chances. And how could it not? It’s such an incredible cover with a lot of details. There’s so much to see on it!
City of Nightmares is another freaking awesome cover! Where do you keep finding these amazing looking and sounding books?! I love reading about Gothan-esque cities!
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Finding new books is one of my favorite things to do, lol.
Hope you get your hands on them and enjoy them! 🙂
Me too:-)
I think they are all intricately designed and I’m most drawn to the story of The Fairy Bargains!
I can hardly wait for that one!
City of Nightmares sounds wild! And Bargain too, with that premise- I love stories about the old ways being lost and all that. 🙂
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Me too, I think these have potential.
Pretty covers! 🙂
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Yes, so pretty:-)
City of Nightmares has got to be the coolest thing yet!!! It’ll be one of my top anticipated books to read
I agree! Thanks for stopping by, Lisa:-)
I’ve very much enjoyed what I’ve read so far from Tchaikovsky, so I’m very open to trying more. But so far all I’ve tried are his novellas. I wonder if this is a shorter or longer work.
I think this is a novel, so probably long. But I would give it a chance, I think:-)
I’m so excited for Rowenna Miller’s book! I loved her previous series, The Unraveled Kingdom, so this one should be good. 🙂 I have also been loving that cover for Tchaikovsky’s book, and I’m super intrigued about the story as well. City of Nightmares sounds awesome, too!
I have not read the Unraveled Kingdom but always heard great things about it:-)
Skeptical of the Tchaikovsky. Having read his previous “triumphant return to fantasy”, which was awwwful. The other two, however, are now on my TBR! Thanks:)
I’ve heard his fantasy isn’t as good as his SF, so I’m leery too. But I love the cover!
I think all of these sound amazing. Thanks for sharing!
I hope we both get to check them out:-)
City of Last Chances does indeed have a gorgeous cover… but I admit, I had to read that blurb twice over to understand what it was saying!
Ha ha I know what you mean, sometimes the blurbs are so confusing!
Oooh, City of Last Chances looks like it’s going to be a big win for me! *unceremoniously plops that on my TBR* Loving the look and feel of all of these covers, though!
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I agree, I hope we both get the chance to read it:-)
That Tchaikovsky cover is stunning! I haven’t read anything from him yet but I’ve seen so many glowing reviews so he’s definitely on my list of authors to try.
He writes so much I’ve barely scratched the surface of his books, lol.
Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill sound very interesting. I love stories with fairy bargains in them.
Me too, I hope it’s good:-)
I NEED City of Nightmares! I love the cover too, I included it in my monthly recap! Have you read her other series? Not Even Bones was the first book, and I loved it, so I was already game for whatever was next, but this looks amazing! Love the cover for City of Last Chances, too. It sounds interesting, I will probably wait to see what others say first- I haven’t read anything by the author yet, though I’d like to, but I will probably start with more sci-fi stuff first. Pretty sure I own Children of Time? (It’s so bad when you don’t even know what you own, my goodness!) Great choices as always!
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I bought a copy of Children of Time too but I still haven’t read it. ha ha one of these days:-)
Wow, Adrian Tchaikovsky really does write more than he breathes! I absolutely love the cover of this new book too. 😮 Thanks for sharing!
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Ha ha right? I will never catch up with him:-)
City of Last Chances and City of Nightmare both sound cool.
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Agreed:-)
I was thinking what a fantastic cover for the Adrian Tchaikovsky book but also not sure about the description or whether it appeals to me. City of Nightmares though – another gorgeous cover and although it’s YA I would take a chance on that one for sure.
Lynn 😀
Yeah, I probably won’t read the Tchaikovsky book but I love the cover:-)
Definitely curious about the Tchaikovsky, I think I’m a bit over his sci fi but still willing to read more of his fantasy!
I want them all!!! They all sound uniques and intriguing!!