Future Fiction #266 – Cover Reveals & Newly Discovered SFF Books

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

It was a light week for cover reveals, so this week I’m featuring some SFF books I recently discovered:

The authors of the “impossible to put down” (The Guardian) thriller Old Country return with a terrifying novel about a wilderness camp for troubled teens that is plagued by mysterious events and disappearances, taking survival and discipline to a frightening extreme.

Thirteen-year-old Ben is sent to a remote reform program for troubled teens by a juvenile court judge. But when he arrives at the camp, located on the edge of the vast wilderness of northwestern Montana, he immediately recognizes that there is something off about the counselors. They’re too friendly and upbeat…yet Ben can tell there’s an undercurrent of menace.

As he gets to know the boys in his cabin, he soon discovers that they each have far more going for them than whatever crime landed them there. And each has a different critical skill, one that could help them unearth what is really going on in this place—and how to make it out alive. They are inching ever closer to the truth, and the hidden evil beneath the camp’s surface will make itself known in order to deter them.

Wilderness Reform by Matt Query & Harrison Query. Releases in July 2024 from Atria/Emily Bestler. I missed the boat on the authors’ last book, Old Country, which I heard was fantastic. Luckily I’ve already been approved for this on NetGalley, and I can’t wait to read it.

“What looks like magic is simply a part of life we don’t understand yet…”

When retired math teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan.

Among the rugged hills and golden beaches of the island, Grace searches for answers about her friend’s life, and how it ended. What she uncovers is stranger than she could have dreamed. But to dive into this impossible truth, Grace must first come to terms with her past.

Filled with wonder and wild adventure, this is a story of hope and the life-changing power of a new beginning.

The Life Impossible by Matt Haig. Releases in August 2024 from Viking. I have yet to read Matt Haig, for some reason. In fact I own at least one of his older books, so really I have no excuse. Maybe this will be my first Matt Haig book?

Psychological horror meets cyber noir in this delicious one-sitting read—a haunted house story in which the haunting is by AI.

Henry is a brilliant engineer who, after untold hours spent in his home lab, has achieved the breakthrough of his career—he’s created an artificially intelligent consciousness. He calls the half-formed robot William.

No one knows about William. Henry’s agoraphobia keeps him inside the house, and his fixation on his project keeps him up in the attic, away from everyone, including his pregnant wife, Lily.

When Lily’s coworkers show up, wanting to finally meet Henry and see the new house—the smartest of smart homes—Henry decides to introduce them to William, and things go from strange to much worse. Soon Henry and Lily discover the security upgrades intended to keep danger out of the house are even better at locking it in.

W1ll1am by Mason Coile. Releases in September 2024 from Baskerville. I can’t remember where I first saw this book, but the cover definitely convinced me I needed to know more about it. I love the idea of a genre mash-up of cyber noir and a haunted house story.

What do you think of this week’s Future Fiction picks? Let me know in the comments!

Posted February 14, 2024 by Tammy in Future Fiction / 26 Comments

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26 responses to “Future Fiction #266 – Cover Reveals & Newly Discovered SFF Books”

  3. Stephanie @ Bookfever

    I’m already curious about your thoughts on Wilderness Reform. I really like the premise of the story. Hopefully it’ll be just as good as it sounds!

    I also still need to read Matt Haig. I do own a copy of The Midnight Library but haven’t read it yet. This newest upcoming one also sound like a good one.

    I’ve seen William around on the blogosphere and I instantly thought of you when I read the description. I also like the sound of it but really wanna know your thoughts first hehe 😛

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  11. Charlotte

    I haven’t read anything by Matt Haig yet either. I have a few of his books on my TBR but don’t own any. Although I have plenty of other unread owned books.

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