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
Check out these three new(ish) science fiction covers!
A reimagining of the Greek myth of Eurydice and Orpheus, for fans of Becky Chambers and William Gibson by Alex Award–winning author Temi Oh.
Using the myth of Eurydice as a structure, this riveting science fiction novel is set in a near-future London where it has become popular for folks to have a small implant that allows one access to a more robust social media experience directly as an augmented reality. However, the British government has taken oversight of this access to an extreme, slowly tilting towards a dystopian overreach, all in the name of safety.
More Perfect by Temi Oh. Releases in May 2023 from Gallery/Saga Press. I’ve been waiting for four years for Temi Oh’s follow-up to Do You Dream of Terra-Two? which is one of my all time favorite books. Don’t you love this cover?
A mind-bending speculative thriller in which the sudden appearance of a mountain in the middle of the Pacific Ocean leads a group of scientists to a series of jaw-dropping revelations that challenge the notion of what it means to be human
An enormous snow-covered mountain has appeared in the Pacific Ocean. No one knows when exactly it showed up, precisely how big it might be, or how to explain its existence. When Harold Tunmore, a scientist of mysterious phenomena, is contacted by a shadowy organization to help investigate, he has no idea what he is getting into as he and his team set out for the mountain.
The higher Harold’s team ascends, the less things make sense. Time moves differently, turning minutes into hours, and hours into days. Amid the whipping cold of higher elevation, the climbers’ limbs numb and memories of their lives before the mountain begin to fade. Paranoia quickly turns to violence among the crew, and slithering, ancient creatures pursue them in the snow. Still, as the dangers increase, the mystery of the mountain compels them to its peak, where they are certain they will find their answers. Have they stumbled upon the greatest scientific discovery known to man or the seeds of their own demise?
Framed by the discovery of Harold Tunmore’s unsent letters to his family and the chilling and provocative story they tell, Ascension considers the limitations of science and faith and examines both the beautiful and the unsettling sides of human nature.
Ascension by Nicholas Binge. Releases in April 2023 from Riverhead Books. This sounds so good, a combo of mystery, science fiction and horror. I can’t imagine a better mix of elements!
When Special Agent Petrov and Dr. Lei Zhang are woken up from cryogenic sleep, dragged freezing and dripping wet out of their pods with the ship’s alarms blaring in the background, they know something is very wrong. Warned by the Captain that they’re under attack, they have no choice but to investigate.
It doesn’t take much time to learn that they’ve been met by another vessel—a vessel from Paradis-One, Earth’s first deep-space colony, and their final destination.
Worse still, the vessel is empty. And it carries with it the message that all communications from the 150,000 souls inhabiting the Paradis-One has completely ceased.
Petrov and Zhang must board the empty ship and delve further into deep space to discover the truth of the colony’s disappearance—but the further they go, the more dangers loom.
Paradise-1 by David Wellington. Releases in April 2023 from Orbit Books. First, any time I see a cracked space suit helmet, I’m immediately drawn to the story. This sounds very familiar with tropes from other sci-fi horror, but I’m still curious to read it. Sci-fi horror is one of my favorite genre combos!
Thi is a trio of cool sci fi reads, I think. I’m trying to think which one might be my fave out of them and I can’t decide lol!
Me either! I want them all:-)
Both Paradise and Ascension sound perfect for my tastes, although I’m leaning more toward the former: cracked helmets are indeed a good advertisement for any story! 😉
Yes, those cracked helmets get me every time:-)
More Perfect and Ascension sound very interesting!
I agree, fingers crossed they turn out to be good:-)
Doesn’t More Perfect sound amazing?!
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Yes yes yes!
More Perfect sounds really good. And it’s a reimagining of Eurydice and Orpheus! That’s one of my favorite myths so now I’m wondering how the author used the myth as a structure.
I love the combo of all the genres in Ascension and how scary must it be if a mountain suddenly shows up in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. I’m really intrigued by the premise!
Paradise-1 also has a great premise! Cracked helmets on covers can never mean anything good. I wonder what happened to the colony!
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I can see you enjoying More Perfect because of the Eurydice and Orpheus tie-in:-)
I love the simplicity of that first cover, and I remember seeing Terra-Two around so I’m curious about this now! PAradise- 1— yes please. I love SF horror too, and the beginning of that story sounds terrifying and awesome. 🙂
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I know, sci-fi horror is the best:-)
Ascension and Paradise -1 both sound great. Thanks for sharing!
I hope we both get to read them:-)
The Temi Oh book looks amazing (and like you, I’ve been waiting for more by this author!)
I’m so glad she’s finally written another book:-)
Hope you get your hands on them and enjoy!
Me too Stormi!
Oooh fun! I didn’t know the Temi Oh one had a cover- I pre-ordered the UK version as soon as I heard it existed, actually hah. I loved Terra-Two too! Ascension is on my list too, that looks amazing! And now I will obviously be adding Paradise-1 to my list- you are so right, why do cracked space helmets seem so… appealing is the wrong word, but you know what I mean
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Update! Did you see the final cover? It is STUNNING! Now I need to cancel my UK pre-order and get a US one because it is A) super pretty and B) releases three months earlier hah!
OOOh so it looks like even Edelweiss updated it. I love it even more! And I’ll change my post:-)
Ha ha I know I just love the “cracked space helmet” motif, lol.
Paradise-1 sounds so good. That synopsis immediately made me think of Andy Weir’s books, which I’ve enjoyed.
All of these books sound original, they all have some promising ideas behind them. And the one that is the most appealing to me is Paradise One.
Great selection. Paradise gives me Alien vibes – very interesting.
Lynn 😀
Each of these appears to have potential and I could see myself enjoying all of them.
Ooh, I’m definitely adding the new Temi Oh!
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The last two books sound very tempting!
I’m so glad to see David Wellington has another sci-fi coming out! I really enjoyed The Last Astronaut and love the sound of this new one. More Perfect and Ascension also sound amazing–I really love the idea of a Eurydice/Orpheus-inspired sci-fi??