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 cover reveals were hot and heavy this week, and I’m excited to read all three of these!
Following the critically acclaimed Infinity Gate comes the second and final novel in the Pandominion by international bestselling M.R. Carey. A thrilling adventure set in the multiverse, it tells of humanity’s expansion across millions of dimensions, and the AI technology that might see it all come to an end . . .
Two mighty empires are at war – and both will lose, with thousands of planets falling to the extinction event called the Scour. At least that’s what the artificial intelligence known as Rupshe believes.
But somewhere in the multiverse there exists a force – the Mother Mass – that could end the war in an instant, and Rupshe has assembled a team to find it. Essien Nkanika, a soldier trying desperately to atone for past sins; the cat-woman Moon, a conscienceless killer; the digitally recorded mind of physicist Hadiz Tambuwal; Paz, an idealistic child and the renegade robot spy Dulcimer Coronal.
Their mission will take them from the hellish prison world of Tsakom to the poisoned remains of a post-apocalyptic Earth, and finally bring them face to face with the Mother Mass itself. But can they persuade it to end eons of neutrality and help them? And is it too late to make a difference?
Because the Pandominion’s doomsday machines are about to be unleashed – and not even their builders know how to control them.
Echo of Worlds (Pandominion #2) by M.R. Carey. Releases in June 2024 from Orbit. I’m excited to see this cover reveal for the follow-up to Carey’s ambitious Infinity Gate! I loved the first book, and it will be interesting to see how Carey wraps up his epic SF tale.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Ninth House, Hell Bent, and creator of the Grishaverse series comes a highly anticipated historical fantasy set during the Spanish Golden Age
In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to better the family’s social position.
What begins as simple amusement for the bored nobility takes a perilous turn when Luzia garners the notice of Antonio Pérez, the disgraced secretary to Spain’s king. Still reeling from the defeat of his armada, the king is desperate for any advantage in the war against England’s heretic queen—and Pérez will stop at nothing to regain the king’s favor.
Determined to seize this one chance to better her fortunes, Luzia plunges into a world of seers and alchemists, holy men and hucksters, where the line between magic, science, and fraud is never certain. But as her notoriety grows, so does the danger that her Jewish blood will doom her to the Inquisition’s wrath. She will have to use every bit of her wit and will to survive—even if that means enlisting the help of Guillén Santangel, an embittered immortal familiar whose own secrets could prove deadly for them both.
The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo. Releases in April 2024 from Flatiron Books. I’m loving this cover, and the story sounds pretty amazing too. Historical fantasy set during the Spanish Golden Age? Yes please!
Crypt of the Moon Spider is a dark and dreamy fantasy about greed, corruption, and selfhood. Together, they weave the stickiest of webs.
Years ago, in a cave beneath the dense forests and streams on the surface of the moon, a gargantuan spider once lived. Its silk granted its first worshippers immense faculties of power and awe.
It’s now 1923 and Veronica Brinkley is touching down on the moon for her intake at the Barrowfield Home for Treatment of the Melancholy. A renowned facility, Dr. Barrington Cull’s invasive and highly successful treatments have been lauded by many. And they’re so simple! All it takes is a little spider silk in the amygdala, maybe a strand or two in the prefrontal cortex, and perhaps an inch in the hippocampus for near evisceration of those troublesome thoughts and ideas.
But trouble lurks in many a mind at this facility and although the spider’s been dead for years, its denizens are not. Someone or something is up to no good, and Veronica just might be the cause.
Crypt of the Moon Spider by Nathan Ballingrud. Releases in August 2024 from Tordotcom. This sounds incredibly weird and wonderful, and I can hardly wait to read it!
I had not seen the announcement of The Familiar coming at all but I’m very pleasantly surprised. As per usual with a Leigh Bardugo book it sounds amazing! 😀
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It just sort of burst out a few days ago and now it’s everywhere!
I like the sound of The Familiar, and the cover is great too 😀
I love the cover. And I hear that if you preorder a copy, you’ll get the hardcover with sprayed black edges:-)
I can’t wait for The Familiar!
Me too, it sounds so good!
Just went and added all three to my Goodreads to-read! So excited about the M.R. Carey sequel!
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Me too! And I’ve never read Leigh Bardugo, so I’m hoping The Familiar will be my first:-)
It will not be easy to wait until June for the conclusion of Carey’s Pandominion series, but waiting we will – I’m beyond eager to see how he will wrap up this story 🙂
Me too, and it’s harder to wrap things up with only two books in the series.
That last one sounds WILD.
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It does! And I can’t believe I still haven’t read anything by the author. I need to catch up with his other books too.
Another great selection of upcoming releases to drool over! The Familiar sounds like it will be good and I’m really interested in M.R. Carey’s books. I hope you enjoy all of these!
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Thanks! I’m beyond excited to see what Carey’s series goes.
I really need to start Carey series!! And The Familiar sounds intriguing too!!
Carey’s series is very complex but so exciting:-)
The Familiar sounds very interesting.
It really does. I definitely need to try it:-)
I can’t wait for Leigh Bardugo’s story!
Me too, it sounds so good:-)
Heck yes to THE FAMILIAR! I admit that I haven’t read the rest of Bardugo’s Grishaverse outside of the Shadow & Bone trilogy, nor have I read the Hell Bent stuff…I don’t know…the premises just haven’t interested me enough even though everyone has good things to say about Six of Crows, etc. But THE FAMILIAR seems more in my wheelhouse.
I haven’t read anything by Bardugo so I’m looking forward to The Familiar being my first.
YEP need all three of these immediately. The cover for Moon Spider is… I mean, I hate it, but I also think it probably fits and I am supposed to hate it? Either way I need the book in my life. ALL of these books in my life! Great choices as always!
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Moon Spider is creepy for sure! I cannot wait:-)
Oooo – the next book in the Carey series! I wasn’t as blown away by Infinity Gate as many people – but I did enjoy the story and want to read the next one. And I LOVE the sound of The Familiar. Thank you for sharing, Tammy!
We must see how Carey’s series ends, right?
I didn’t realize Leigh Bardugo had another book coming out. That’s exciting to hear!
I was excited too!