Future Fiction #279 – 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 great week for cover reveals, and these three were my favorites:

Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life.

Grady calls his wife to share some exciting news as she is driving home. He hears Abby slam on the brakes, get out of the car, then nothing. When he eventually finds her car by the cliff edge the headlights are on, the driver door is open, her phone is still there. . . but his wife has disappeared.

A year later, Grady is still overcome with grief and desperate to know what happened to Abby. He can’t sleep, and he can’t write, so he travels to a tiny Scottish island to try to get his life back on track. Then he sees the impossible – a woman who looks exactly like his missing wife.

Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney. Releases in January 2025 from Flatiron Books. I was thrilled to see this cover pop up last week. The blurb doesn’t give much away (which is a good thing!) but I can already tell this is going to have Feeney’s trademark twists:-)

Girl in the Creek by Hugo Award winner Wendy N. Wagner is an atmospheric and eerie story about a Pacific Northwest forest that seems to be devouring all who enter. A perfect read for fans of T. Kingfisher and Jeff VanderMeer’s cli-fi cosmic horror.

Mt. Hood National Forest has always been a sanctuary for evil—human and alien.

The shadows of looming trees and long-abandoned mines shelter poachers and serial killers alike. Then there’s the ruined hotel on the outskirts of picturesque small town Faraday, Oregon, nestled in the foothills of Mt. Hood. The one drowning in mushrooms and fungus not even the local expert can identify.

Not to mention the stacks of missing persons cases.

Freelance writer Erin Harper arrives in Faraday to find out what happened to her brother, whose disappearance in the forest has haunted her for years. But someone else has gone missing. And when Erin finds her in the creek, the girl vanishes again — this time from the morgue, and days later her fingerprints show up at a murder scene.

Maybe it’s a serial killer, or maybe it’s the spores infecting the forest and those lost inside. Erin must find answers quickly, before anyone else goes missing. But she might be next…

Girl in the Creek by Wendy N. Wagner. Releases in February 2025 from Tor Nightfire. OK first I’m in love with this cover. Something about mushrooms sprouting out of bodies makes me want to read a book even more, lol. This sounds super creepy, can’t wait!

From the subversive mind behind The Hollows comes a new, page turning horror thriller, perfect for fans of The Only Good Indian by Stephen Graham Jones

Jenna’s life has always been a fight. From the traumatic and mysterious loss of her mother on a dark woodland road when she was fifteen, to the abusive and controlling boyfriend she’s recently escaped, she has learned that trust hurts you in the end.

Now Jenna’s found what she hopes is happiness with her new girlfriend, Holly. But the world is full of darkness – some of it ancient, some of it closer to home… Evil, and those who serve it, will not let Jenna go.

The Ravening is a gripping, claustrophobic horror novel that sets a timeless nightmare against one woman and her belief in herself, and the possibility that somewhere, somehow, there is love in the world.

The Ravening by Daniel Church. Releases in November 2024 from Angry Robot. I love this cover, and the deer antlers definitely remind me of The Only Good Indians. Last year I read and loved Church’s The Hollows, so I’m very excited to see what he does next.

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

Posted May 15, 2024 by Tammy in Future Fiction / 32 Comments

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32 responses to “Future Fiction #279 – Cover Reveals & Newly Discovered SFF Books”

    • Tammy

      I love the Alice Feeney cover, with the rip down the center showing a book page. It is clever:-)

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  3. Barbara S Briggs

    I actually already had the Feeney and Wagner books on my wish list but The Ravening is completely new to me and man, now I need it too! Great choices this week.

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    • Tammy

      Thanks Barb! I had heard about The Ravening from the Angry Robot newsletter, but they just revealed the cover and I love it:-)

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  4. sjhigbee

    They are all scarily good covers – but the girl floating in the water all bemushroomed… It put me in mind of Mexican Gothic!!! I hope you thoroughly enjoy all these reads, Tammy.

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  11. Pages and Tea

    Adding the new Alice Feeney book to my TBR list even though it’s a while away. I want to read more after enjoying Daisy Darker so much 😀

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  12. todd

    The Girl in the Creek reminds me of that real fungus that causes ants to sort of turn into zombies and serve the fungus. Pretty creepy extrapolating that to a human infection. 🙂

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  13. Charlotte

    Girl In The Creek definitely sounds creepy and I can see why the cover caught your eye. I’ve somehow never read an Alice Feeney book so I really need to try and fix that soon.

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