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
An exciting sequel, a futuristic Botswana, and a rerelease by a favorite author make up my picks this week, take a look:
An intrepid professor must uncover faerie secrets in the delightful and heart-warming second instalment of the Sunday Times bestselling Emily Wilde series.
Emily Wilde is a genius scholar of faerie folklore, and has catalogued many secrets of the Hidden Folk in her encyclopaedia with her infuriatingly charming fellow scholar, Wendell Bambleby, by her side.
But Bambleby is more than just a brilliant and unbearably handsome scholar. He’s an exiled faerie king on the run from his murderous mother, in search of a door back to his realm.
By lucky happenstance, Emily’s new project, a map of the realms of faerie, will take them on an adventure to the picturesque Austrian Alps, where Emily believes they may find the door to Bambleby’s realm, and the key to freeing him from his family’s dark plans.
But with new friendships for the prickly Emily to navigate and dangerous Folk lurking in every forest and hollow, Emily must unravel the mysterious workings of faerie doors, and of her own heart.
Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde #2) by Heather Fawcett. Releases in January 2024 from Del Rey Books. I can’t believe I’m sharing a couple of 2024 releases already! And this one is exciting. I loved the first book in the series, as did many of my blogger friends, and I’m very excited to read the second installment.
WOMB CITY imagines a dark and deadly future Botswana, rich with culture and true folklore, which begs the question: how far must one go to destroy the structures of inequality upon which a society was founded? How far must a mother go to save the life of her child? Nelah seems to have it all: wealth, fame, a husband, and a child on the way. But in a body her husband controls via microchip and the tailspin of a loveless marriage, her hopes and dreams come to a devastating halt. A drug-fueled night of celebration ends in a hit-and-run. To dodge a sentencing in a society that favors men, Nelah and her side-piece, Janith Koshal, finish the victim off and bury the body.
But the secret claws its way into Nelah’s life from the grave. As her victim’s vengeful ghost begins exacting a bloody revenge on everyone Nelah holds dear, she?ll have to unravel her society’s terrible secrets to stop those in power, and become a monster unlike any other to quench the ghost’s violent thirst.
Womb City by Tlotlo Tsamaase. Releases in January 2023 from Erewhon Books. Isn’t this an amazing, eye-catching cover? And the story sounds crazy!! I cannot wait to read this.
Driven by vengeance. Destined for peace.
Niger, West Africa, 2070: After fifteen-year old Ejii witnesses her father’s beheading, her world shatters. In an era of mind-blowing technology and seductive magic, Ejii embarks on a mystical journey to track down her father’s killer. With a newfound friend by her side, Ejii comes face to face with an earth turned inside out—and with her own magical powers. But Ejii soon discovers that her travels across the sands of the Sahara have a greater purpose. Her people need to be protected from a force seeking to annihilate them. And Ejii may be just the hero to do it.
Now in an updated edition with a new introduction from the author herself, The Shadow Speaker contains the powerful prose and compelling stories that have made Nnedi Okorafor a star of the literary science fiction and fantasy space and put her at the forefront of Africanfuturist fiction.
Shadow Speaker (The Desert Magician’s Duology #1) by Nnedi Okorafor. Releases in September 2023 from DAW Books. Wow, another glorious cover! I’m a big fan of Nnedi Okorafor, and I didn’t realize until I was writing this post that this is a rerelease of an older book. I’m excited to read it:-)
I’ve collected quite a list of Nnedi Okorafor books I’d love to read but I don’t have this one yet.
I’m wondering if this was originally published under a different name. I need to do some digging:-)
Ahh!! The new Emily Wilde cover and synopsis is out already!!?? It sounds fabulous
Isn’t that crazy? I actually sat on this for a week because I thought the cover was on Goodreads by mistake, lol. But now it’s on Amazon, so I guess it’s real:-)
SCREEEEEEEEEECH NEW EMILY WILDE!!!!!!!! omg I cannot wait.
I agree, so exciting, I can’t wait to see what the plot will be:-)
Omg you scared me thinking the next Emily Wilde books is coming out soon because I haven’t yet read the first one!! lol!! Thank goodness I have until 2024.
You have plenty of time:-)
Yes! The new Emily Wilde – I’m so excited for this. I loved No.1
Lynn 😀
I wish it weren’t so far away:-)
I’m excited for the Emily Wilde sequel! What fun!
Me too, I cannot WAIT.
And once again – you’re the coolest blogger on the block – deets of the next Emily Wilde book alone gives you that title:)). And I see I’m not the only one bouncing up and down in my seat with excitement over that announcement. I’ve not yet had the pleasure of reading Nnedi Okorafor – I need to do so. And while Womb City looks awesome – it also looks a bit bleak. I’m not doing bleak just now. Thank you for sharing, Tammy:)).
It’s a long way off, but I guess we can look forward to it:-)
I still need to try Heather Fawcetts adult books I have only read her middle grade books and enjoyed them.
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OMG!! I can’t wait for Emily Wilde’s sequel!
I know! Super exciting:-)
Ooh, more from Nnedi Okorafor!
Right? I’m so excited.
Ooh, I totally missed the second Emily Wilde book! I NEED IT!!!!
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Both Womb City and Shadow Speaker sound extremely promising: I will have to keep watch for their release…
Thanks for sharing! 🙂
Don’t they? I’m excited for both:-)
I still want to read the first Emily Wilde but already I love the sound of that second book. Hopefully I’ll have time to read the first one before this comes out 😀
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There’s quite a lot of time before the second one comes out:-)
I majorly need to read the first Emily Wilde book soon and I know the last of these is a re-release but I’m definitely adding it to my tbr. Although it’s also reminded me that I desperately need to get to Akata Witch soon
Oh good, another Nnedi Okorafor fan:-)
I haven’t read anything by them yet but definitely have a fair few of their books on my tbr.
Okay I NEEEED Womb City and Shadow Speaker. Like, immediately! Thank you for putting them on my radar!
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