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
The Tor imprints have been on fire with cover reveals recently, so please enjoy these three books!
A contemporary Southern Gothic from award-winning master of modern horror, T. Kingfisher. A House With Good Bones explores the deep, dark roots of family.
Sam Montgomery is worried about her mother. She seems anxious, jumpy, and she’s begun making mystifying changes to the family home on Lammergeier Lane. Sam figures it has something to do with her mother’s relationship to Sam’s late, unlamented grandmother.
She’s not wrong.
As vultures gather around the house and frightful family secrets are unearthed under the rosebushes, Sam struggles to unravel the truth about the house on Lammergeier Lane before it consumes her and everyone else who stands in its way…
A House With Good Bones by T. Kingfisher. Releases in March 2023 from Tor Nightfire. Ooh, a new T. Kingfisher! I’ve been so excited for this cover reveal, and I’ll be eagerly awaiting the release of this book:-)
Robert R. McCammon’s Boy’s Life meets H. P. Lovecraft in Wild Spaces, a foreboding, sensual coming-of-age debut in which the corrosive nature of family secrets and toxic relatives assume eldritch proportions.
An eleven-year-old boy lives an idyllic childhood exploring the remote coastal plains and wetlands of South Carolina alongside his parents and his dog Teach. But when the boy’s eerie and estranged grandfather shows up one day with no warning, cracks begin to form as hidden secrets resurface that his parents refuse to explain.
The longer his grandfather outstays his welcome and the greater the tension between the adults grows, the more the boy feels something within him changing —physically—into something his grandfather welcomes and his mother fears. Something abyssal. Something monstrous.
Wild Spaces by S.L. Coney. Releases in August 2023 from Tordotcom. I believe this is Coney’s debut novella, and I’m loving the heck out of the cover with it’s dog and tentacle elements! Also the comparison to Boy’s Life means this is a must read for me.
From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a dark and deliciously twisted mermaid tale.
After murdering her husband and burning his kingdom to cinders, a mermaid joins a strange doctor on a journey through the eerie taiga. Deep in the woods, the pair stumble upon a village, full of seemingly ageless children and the three surgeons who oversee them—called only “the saints.”
After discovering the villagers’ taste for a sinister blood sport, the mermaid and her companion must embrace the darkest parts of their true nature, if they hope to survive.
The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw. Releases in May 2023 from Tor Nightfire. I definitely don’t get “mermaid” from this cover, but isn’t this cover stunning? After reading Khaw’s Nothing But Blackened Teeth, I’m anxious to check out her next book.
I’ve recently started reading T. Kingfisher and I will read anything she cares to write. Thanks for sharing!
She’s amazing, right? I hope we both love this one:-)
Kingfisher’s book is going to be a “must read”, given how I’ve fallen hook, line and sinker for her stories… 😉
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Yes! Me as well, I can’t wait:-)
Not saying I would read it, but that “Salt Grows Heavy” one seems very strange. And the cover is unique, too.
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I love the cover, especially the more I look, it’s so unusual.
Another fabulous collection of creepy reads, Tammy:)). I LOVE Kingfisher’s writing – but I have avoided her horror as I think I’d find it too disturbing and I’m guessing this would fall into that category… The cover for Wild Spaces is awesome.
Well, she’s bound to get back to fantasy at some point:-)
Can’t wait for House with Good Bones!! I have my ARC already, but I’m holding off until closer to publication. What a great cover!
I didn’t realize A House With Good Bones was already on NetGalley!
A House With Good Bones sounds really great. I love the title and the cover and how in the synopsis it says “As vultures gather around the house…” and that there’s a vulture on the cover. I still need to read more books by T. Kingfisher but I’m working on it!
Nothing better be happening to the dog in Wild Spaces. Other than my fear of that it sound like a good read. I love the tentacles!
And I already know that I need The Salt Grows Heavy in my life. “a dark and deliciously twisted mermaid tale” already got me. I’m always on the look for good mermaid stories!
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I agree with you on mermaid stories, it feels like a long time since I’ve read one:-)
I am curious about the new T Kingfister book. I still need to read the one for this year but she is a steady okay/decent read for me so far.
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I think you’d like her last book:-)
Wild Spaces definitely has me curious!
It sounds so good:-)
Oooh I totally missed the new T. Kingfisher reveal! I’m already so excited about it. I’m also very curious about Wild Spaces, and I want to be excited about Khaw’s book because it sounds amazing, but I really disliked Nothing But Blackened Teeth. I want to keep an open mind, though!
Nothing But Blackened Teeth was very strange, and I can see why you wouldn’t like it. But doesn’t that cover of The Salt Grows Heavy make you curious?
Wild Spaces does, indeed, sound wild. I still need to read Boy’s Life. That seems to be a classic of McCammon.
It’s so good! I haven’t read it in years but I’d read it again if I had time.
Doesn’t A House with Good Bones sound fantastic?! I’ll have to check it out!
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It really does! I hope we both get to read it.
I like all these covers, especially the first. I’ll be interested in the new Khaw book after reading Blackened Teeth, and this new story sounds very strange 😀
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I thought Blackened Teeth was strange, and I really enjoyed it:-)
I like the look of all of these. Nope, I’m not greedy.
Lynn 😀
I know I must try Kingfisher books one of these days as I see them everywhere!
Yes! A new T. Kingfisher!
A House With Good Bones is definitely on my must-read list (and I have it for review so I will def be reading it!) I like the cover of Wild Spaces a lot, and the plot in general sounds good, but I am a little iffy about such a young MC? And I agree- I did not think “mermaid” at ALL from that cover, but I am interested anyway! Great choices as always!
Yay! Great minds think alike on the new T. Kingfisher!
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