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
An exciting sci-fi sequel, an urban fantasy, and a sci-fi debut, take a look at today’s new covers:
On Vicious Worlds (The Kindom Trilogy #2) by Bethany Jacobs. Releases in October 2024 from Orbit Books. I was pleasantly surprised by These Burning Stars, and I can’t wait to read the sequel. Jacobs is such a good writer, and I’m curious to see where she takes her story.
For fans of Succession, this features magic and dysfunctional family – rich in secrets and betrayals.
The children of Thayer Wren have been remarkable since the day they were born. Unsurprisingly, since Thayer was the brilliant CEO of Wrenfare Magitech and so-called father of modern technology. Telepathically and telekinetically gifted, his offspring – Meredith, Arthur and Eilidh Wren – are publicly admired and privately capable of extraordinary feats. Any of the Wren prodigies would be a plausible inheritor to the Wrenfare throne. Or at least, so they like to think.
On the day of Thayer Wren’s unexpected demise, the lives of the three Wren siblings are in various states of chaos and disrepair. Meredith, now CEO of her own profitable company, is knee-deep in a dystopian capitalist nightmare, haunted by the ghost of a childhood friend. She’s also facing imminent exposure for corporate malfeasance by a journalist ex-boyfriend. Congressman Arthur Wren is wrestling with his disgruntled constituency and a strange, magical malady that can only be called the yips. Eilidh, former prima ballerina whose spinal injury ended her career, now finds herself triggering accidental, uncontrolled apocalypse events.
In the wake of Thayer’s loss, the Wrens return to their childhood home. Here they will face their contentious relationships with their father, and each other. On the journey of gifted kid to clinical depression, nobody wins — but which Wren will rise to the top? Can one of them seize the prize of their father’s crown?
This is a compulsive tale of family, twisted love and dangerous secrets from a writer at the height of her powers.
Gifted & Talented by Olivie Blake. Releases in April 2025 from Tor Books. I have yet to read anything by Olivie Blake, but I always see her books around. This sounds really good, and I’m in love with the cover. I love stories with siblings, so color me intrigued!
World War III rages, and the scientists at the South Pole are thankful for the isolation – until a group of Chinese scientists arrive at the American research base with a dead man in their truck. The potential for a geopolitical firestorm is great, and, with no clear jurisdiction, the Americans don’t know what to do. But they soon realize the Chinese scientists have brought far more with them than the body…
Within seventy-two hours, thirteen others lie dead in the snow, murdered in acts of madness and superhuman strength. An extremophile parasite from the truck, triggered by severe cold, is spreading by touch. With rescue impossible for months, it is learning from them. Evolving. It triggers violent tendencies in the winter crew, and, more insidiously… The beginnings of a strange symbiotic telepathy.
From an exciting new voice comes this propulsive SF-thriller, infused with authentic details about life in one of the world’s harshest, most mysterious landscapes, Antarctica.
Symbiote by Michael Nayak. Releases in February 2025 from Angry Robot. A survival story in future Antarctica? This sounds amazing, and check out the awesome cover!
I’ve only read one book by Olivie Blake so far (also about a powerful family) but I adored that so I’m definitely intrigued by the one listed here which I somehow hadn’t heard of. Hopefully you’ll enjoy whatever book you read by her first. As well as the others listed here.
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I’m glad to hear you enjoyed the Blake book you read. I’m so curious:-)
On Vicious Worlds really caught my eye – I should get a move on reading the first one! 🙂
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It’s very very good:-)
The synopsis of Gifted & Talented really intrigues me. I also love stories that feature siblings and Olivie Blake is one of those authors I’ve been meaning to read!
I’d love to read one of her books just so I can see if I enjoy her style. Hopefully this one will work!
Gifted & Talented sounds intriguing!
It does, right? And I’m loving the cover:-)
I love the sound of the first two books. I’ve got These Burning Stars lined up on my TBR – I bought it as a birthday pressie to myself after being unable to get an arc, so I’m keen to tuck into it after hearing your praise. And the second books certainly sounds fascinating:)). I’ll keep an eye out for it. Thank you for sharing, Tammy.
I was surprised by how much I loved These Burning Stars:-)
I really need to read an Olivie Blake book to decide if her writing works for me. I have a couple on my shelves, but I’ve heard mixed things and am a bit leery. This one does sound intriguing though.
I feel the same. This is the first book of hers that really caught my attention.
Survival and Antarctica? Sold! Gifted and Talented sounds really promising too. Great picks!
Thanks! The Antarctica book sounds amazing:-)
I can’t wait to read “On Vicious Worlds!”
I hope it’s just as good as the first book:-)
I really need to read These Burning Stars!!
Ooh it was really good. I hope I remember everything for the sequel, it’s a very complex story.
VERY excited for Symbiote! I cannot remember *anything* about These Burning Stars, so I cannot remember if I wanted to read the sequel, heh. I am very curious about Gifted & Talented too, but just not 100% sure if it is a “me” book yet. Great choices as always!
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Thanks Shannon! Symbiote sounds amazing, right?
I need On Vicious World and I need it now!!
Yes!! Me too:-)
I’ve only read The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake but I think the Succession comparison must be her thing as her books seem to be full of rich, unlikeable characters, but somehow you still get drawn in. I’m on the fence about continuing that series but Gifted and Talented sounds good.
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It really does! I think it might be my first Olivie Blake book:-)
I’m intrigued by the Olivie Blake – not read the author before so perhaps this is a good place to start.
Lynn 😀
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Same here, this one I think will be more my cup of tea than her previous books.
Whoa…SYMBIOTE looks so interesting. I just may request that from Angry Robot when the time comes around. As for Olivie Blake’s upcoming book…I *almost* preordered it during B&N’s sale, but held myself back. I wasn’t sure if I’d like the premise, even though I love how she writes. Plus I also have quite a few backlist books of hers I need to read first. She’s technically one of my few auto-buy authors, but I had to hold myself back this time!
I’m not actually a huge fan of the cover of Gifted & Talented but… am I really willing to turn down a new Olivie Blake based on just that?
I am not.
Hmmmm is These Burning Stars good enough to binge read both of them back to back d’you think?