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
Continuing with the #SciFiMonth celebrations, today I’m shining a light on one publisher, Angry Robot, who has these three amazing sounding books coming out next year! Take a look:
Forty years ago, the world changed. Toxic threads left behind by mutated moths infected every man and boy, killing them quietly in their sleep, or turning them into crazed killers. No one was safe from their psychopathic wrath and no one could reach them. All seemed hopeless.
But humanity, as it does, adapted and society moved on. Now, men are kept in specially treated dust-free facilities for their safety, and are never able to return to the outside. The world is quiet, but secrets are kept safe in whispers. Very few people remember what life was like before the change, but Mary knows. She had a family. She was happy. This is her story.
Exploring male violence against women, homo-normativity, and gynocracy, Moths is a powerful assessment of life through the lens of a main character in her 70s.
Moths by Jane Hennigan. Releases in March 2023 from Angry Robot. This novel was originally self-published, and now Angry Robot has a gorgeous new cover and edition coming out next year. I’m very curious about this one!
Valentine Weis is a salvager in the future wastelands of Utah. Wrestling with body dysphoria, he dreams of earning enough money to afford citizenship in Salt Lake City – a utopia where the testosterone and surgery he needs to transition is free, the food is plentiful, and folk are much less likely to be shot full of arrows by salt pirates. But earning that kind of money is a pipe dream, until he meets the exceptionally handsome Osric.
Once a powerful AI in Salt Lake City, Osric has been forced into an android body against his will and sent into the wasteland to offer Valentine a job on behalf of his new employer – an escort service seeking to retrieve their stolen androids. The reward is a visa into the city, and a chance at the life Valentine’s always dreamed of. But as they attempt to recover the “merchandise”, they encounter a problem: the android ladies are becoming self-aware, and have no interest in returning to their old lives.
The prize is tempting, but carrying out the job would go against everything Valentine stands for, and would threaten the fragile found family that’s kept him alive so far. He’ll need to decide whether to risk his own dream in order to give the AI a chance to live theirs.
World Running Down by Al Hess. Releases in February 2023 from Angry Robot. I love everything about this! It sounds like the story deals with some important ideas and themes, with a trans character as well. I’m very much looking forward to it!
Agent Miriam Randle works for LifeTime, a private law enforcement agency that undertakes short-term time travel to erase crimes before they occur. Haunted by the memory of her twin brother’s unsolved murder at the age of six, Miriam thinks of herself as Myriad—an incarnation of the many lives she’s lived in her journeys to rearrange the past.
When a routine assignment goes wrong and Miriam commits a murder she was meant to avert, she is thrown into the midst of a conspiracy that reaches to the highest levels of LifeTime. Along with her partner Vax, Miriam flees into the past in an attempt to unravel the truth before LifeTime agents catch up with her.
But then her brother’s killer reappears, twenty years to the day since he first struck. And he’s not through with the twin who survived, not by a long shot.
Myriad by Joshua David Bellin. Releases in May 2023 from Angry Robot. Time travel and murder can be such a great combo. I’m excited to try Bellin’s latest!
Moths sounds very intriguing, not least because of the main character’s age: I will have to keep this one on my radar…
Thanks for sharing!
Intriguing indeed! I can’t wait:-)
Oh wow! I didn’t expect that description of the book with that title and cover. It sounds like a fantastic read!
I love that World Running Down has a trans character and a AI character. Should be a really good one!
I love me some time travel so Myriad (love that title btw!) sounds like one I really wanna read. Also loving the premise
I think a trans/AI pairing will be a lot of fun:-)
Three good picks! Myriad in particular sounds like a fun thriller!
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It does, right?
These sound so unique! Enjoy
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Thanks Emma!
Myriad sounds awesome!
I agree, it’s going to be hard to wait:-)
Myriad sounds awesome! Thanks for sharing!
I can’t wait!
I always love time travel so Mriad is a nobrainer for me. And wow World Running Down too- can’t wait. I’ve been wanting to try Hess since I think Kit over at Metaphors reviewed something of theirs a while back.
Me too, Hess wrote an earlier book I wanted to read, so I definitely don’t want to miss their new one!
Great picks this week! That time travel/murder combo is really calling to me.
Me too, it sounds like a great combo:-)
Myriad sounds really good, I’ll have to keep my eye out for that one in the next Angry Robot email!
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Myriad sounds like the sort of thing I would enjoy at the moment, I seem to be having a moment with reading thrillers 😀
I don’t read time travel stories all that often, so Myriad might be interesting.
These sound so good! Moths sounds really intriguing, and I love the premise for World Running Down!
This time around I am fascinated by all of them! If I have to put them in order I would say that World Running Down, Moths (and the fact that the MC is older than usual sounds so good!!) and Myriad (time travel is not my thing but this one sounds interesting!)
This is funny, because I legit just added all of these when AR sent out their newsletter announcing them hah. I might have already requested the first two because I cannot help myself, apparently. And I will obviously request the third when it is available. Seriously I need to be stopped. Great choices!
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I think World Running Down would be the most tempting to me!
Moths made me go Wow; what a powerful read that sounds like! Myriad also caught my attention — time travel and an excellent murder mystery? Yes please!
I like the sound of a couple of these and great covers.
Lynn D