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 new October 2024 releases, take a look:
The Black Hunger by Nicholas Pullen. Releases in October 2024 from Redhook. OK, this blurb is super vague, but I love the cover and I’m definitely going to be reading this. The UK cover was revealed at the same time and I think I like it even better!
In this new standalone, Hugo Award-winning author Nghi Vo introduces a beguiling fantasy city in the tradition of Calvino, Mieville, and Le Guin.
A demon. An angel. A city that burns at the heart of the world.
The demon Vitrine—immortal, powerful, and capricious—loves the dazzling city of Azril. She has mothered, married, and maddened the city and its people for generations, and built it into a place of joy and desire, revelry and riot.
And then the angels come, and the city falls.
Vitrine is left with nothing but memories and a book containing the names of those she has lost—and an angel, now bound by her mad, grief-stricken curse to haunt the city he burned.
She mourns her dead and rages against the angel she longs to destroy. Made to be each other’s devastation, angel and demon are destined for eternal battle. Instead, they find themselves locked in a devouring fascination that will change them both forever.
Together, they unearth the past of the lost city and begin to shape its future. But when war threatens Azril and everything they have built, Vitrine and her angel must decide whether they will let the city fall again.
The City in Glass is both a brilliantly constructed history and an epic love story, of death and resurrection, memory and transformation, redemption and desire strong enough to burn a world to ashes and build it anew.
The City in Glass by Nghi Vo. Releases in October 2024 from Tordotcom. I do love Nghi Vo’s writing, although I need to catch up on some of her backlist. This new book sounds really good, and the China Miéville comparison makes it very tempting.
Welcome to Rivers Solomon’s dark and wondrous Model Home, a new kind of haunted-house novel.
The three Maxwell siblings keep their distance from the lily-white gated enclave outside Dallas where they grew up. When their family moved there, they were the only Black family in the neighborhood. The neighbors acted nice enough, but right away bad things, scary things—the strange and the unexplainable—began to happen in their house. Maybe it was some cosmic trial, a demonic rite of passage into the upper-middle class. Whatever it was, the Maxwells, steered by their formidable mother, stayed put, unwilling to abandon their home, terrors and trauma be damned.
As adults, the siblings could finally get away from the horrors of home, leaving their parents all alone in the house. But when news of their parents’ death arrives, Ezri is forced to return to Texas with their sisters, Eve and Emanuelle, to reckon with their family’s past and present, and to find out what happened while they were away. It was not a “natural” death for their parents . . . but was it supernatural?
Rivers Solomon turns the haunted-house story on its head, unearthing the dark legacies of segregation and racism in the suburban American South. Unbridled, raw, and daring, Model Home is the story of secret histories uncovered, and of a queer family battling for their right to live, grieve, and heal amid the terrors of contemporary American life.
Model Home by Rivers Solomon. Releases in October 2024 from MCD. I really enjoyed Solomon’s The Deep a few years ago, and I’m always up for a haunted house story. This sounds like it has a lot of layers, I’m intrigued!
All of these sound good but I think my favourite is The City in Glass.
The cover is so pretty:-)
Having fallen in love with the Singing Hills novellas this year, I’m really looking forward to trying some of Nghi Vo’s other writing 🙂
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I’m not reading that series but I do love Vo’s writing.
All of these sound awesome. Thanks for sharing!
They are a pretty good bunch!
Is it just me or does there seem to be an uptick in gothic stories lately? Maybe I’m just noticing because I always think they sound interesting, but then I end up not clicking with them haha.
Yes, they seem to be everywhere!
Ooh, the Black Hunger definitely catches my eye! I want to know more!
Me too, that blurb really doesn’t tell you much!
The Black Hunger sounds good and that cover is striking. I did look and think the UK one is even better. I am also interested in Model Home. I’ve not read from that author before but have heard great things.
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I just got Model Home on NetGalley and I can’t wait!
I can’t recall Nghi Vo but now I’m seeing the books everywhere.
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She has written quite a few books!
These all sound so good! I’m also always game for a haunted house story, so Model Home is really grabbing me. I’ve also been so curious about The Black Hunger.
I love haunted house stories too, can’t wait!
Oh my goddddd the way I need The Black Hunger right now. Must add it to my fall list. And I agree, I like the UK cover the best too. So pretty!
Right?? Me too, I’m still not sure what it’s about, but the covers speak to me, ha ha.
Just based on the cover I’d go with The City in Glass!
It’s beautiful, right?
Oooh I had not seen the Black Hunger cover reveal, yay! I agree, the UK one is better, but I also dig the pink on the US so all around wins! I am SO excited for The City in Glass, and I loooove the cover! I am definitely curious about Model Home, too! Great choices!
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I just got approved for Model Home on NetGalley so I’m pretty excited:-)
The Black Hunger has an amazing cover! And all the books sound pretty original! Thanks for sharing them!
I love the cover as well:-)
I was curious about the cover comparison and I think I like the UK one best too. They are surprisingly similar though as sometimes the covers differ massively. I also added City In Glass to my tbr this week too, although I haven’t read anything by the author yet so it’s good to hear you’ve enjoyed their writing before.
I thought the same thing, the covers are very similar, but the UK one is much more bold.
So much bookish goodness here! I City in Glass is on my wish list. I hope you enjoy all of these when you read them, Tammy! Have a great weekend!
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Thanks Wendy, you too!
City of Glass seems to be calling to me.
Lynn 😀
It’s calling to me too!
More horror books to add to the list!
Calvino, Mieville, and Le Guin: wow! Could it too promising to work?
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I’m really excited for more by Rivers Solomon!!