Future Fiction #268 – 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

Today I have three more Fall releases, all with horror elements, take a look:

This World Is Not Yours is fast-paced, queer, horror novella by Kemi Ashing-Giwa, blending Cassandra Khaw’s inventive horror with a planetary intelligence reminiscent of Sue Burke’s Semiosis. A heady, toxic cocktail of a beautiful but macabre world, and a toxic, queer polycule consumed by jealousy and pushed to unforgiveable betrayals.

After fleeing her controlling and murderous family with her fiancée Vinh, Amara embarks on a colonization project, New Belaforme, along with her childhood friend, Jesse.

The planet, beautiful and lethal, produces the Gray, a “self-cleaning” mechanism that New Belaforme’s scientists are certain only attacks invasive organisms, consuming them. Humans have been careful to do nothing to call attention to themselves until a rival colony wakes the Gray.

As Amara, Vinh, and Jesse work to carve out a new life together, each is haunted by past betrayals that surface, expounded by the need to survive the rival colony and the planet itself.

There’s more than one way to be eaten alive.

This World Is Not Yours by Kemi Ashing-Giwa. Releases in September 2024 from Tor Nightfire. I’m always up for a new space horror story, and although the blurb doesn’t really tell you much, I’m intrigued.

The forest is more dangerous than ever as secrets are revealed in this highly-anticipated, pulse-pounding, and swoon-worthy conclusion to the bestselling Luminaries trilogy.

The Whispering Night (The Luminaries #3) by Susan Dennard. Releases in October 2024 from Tor Teen. OK, this is the only blurb I could find anywhere, obviously the publisher hasn’t released the final one. But I just had to share the cover reveal for the third book in this highly imaginative fantasy series. I love this cover!

A new mom in need of help opens her door to her long-estranged mother—only to invite something much darker inside—in this “fast-paced and frightening debut” (Rachel Harrison) about the long shadows cast by family secrets, perfect for readers of Grady Hendrix or Ashley Audrain.

Flora is a new mom enamored of her baby girl, Iris, even if she arrived a few weeks early. With her husband still deployed, Flora navigates the newborn stage alone. But as the sleepless nights pass in the loneliness of their half-empty home, the edges of her reality begin to blur.

Just as Flora becomes convinced she is losing her mind, a surprising guest shows up: Flora’s own mother, to whom she hasn’t spoken in years. Can they mend their fraught relationship? Or is there more Flora’s mother isn’t telling her about the events that led to their estrangement?

As stranger and scarier events unfold, Flora begins to suspect the house is not as empty as she once thought. She must determine: is her hold on reality slipping dangerously away? Or is she, in fact, the only thing standing between a terrifying visitor and her baby?

Dearest by Jacquie Walters. Releases in September 2024 from Mulholland. I’ve had mixed success with “crazy mother” stories, but I’m definitely going to consider this one. It sounds pretty creepy!

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

Posted February 28, 2024 by Tammy in Future Fiction / 33 Comments

33 responses to “Future Fiction #268 – Cover Reveals & Newly Discovered SFF Books”

  8. Barb @ Booker T's Farm

    Wow! This is my first time seeing Dearest and it’s going straight to the wish list. I always keep meaning to read that Denard series as well. All of them have some of the best covers. Now we have a new book snake form – skeletal book snake – haha.

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  10. sjhigbee

    Ooo… the final book in The Luminaries series is going to be released this year??? Yay! I love that cover. Thank you for sharing this Tammy – I’ll keep an eye out for it dropping in the UK:).

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      • Charlotte

        That’s good to hear as I enjoyed the first book but expected more/found some elements a little weak. I am intrigued to see where the various mysteries lead though. And love the forest setting.

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