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 a new Mira Grant, a historical fantasy and the first book in a new Romantasy series, take a look:
Annihilation meets Day of the Triffids in this full-on body horror/alien invasion apocalypse.
This is just a story. It can’t hurt you anymore.
Since she was three years old, Anastasia Miller has been telling anyone who would listen that she’s an alien disguised as a human being, and that the armada that left her on Earth is coming for her. Since she was three years old, no one has been willing to listen.
Now, with an alien signal from the stars being broadcast around the world, humanity is finally starting to realize that it’s already been warned, and it may be too late. The invasion is coming, Stasia’s biological family is on the way to bring her home, and very few family reunions are willing to cross the gulf of space for just one misplaced child.
What happens when you know what’s coming, and just refuse to listen?
Overgrowth by Mira Grant. Releases in May 2025 from Tor Nightfire. This book and cover were just announced at New York Comic Con, so this is hot off the press! I’m excited for a new Mira Grant book, it’s been quite a while since her last one, plus aliens!
The critically acclaimed author of the “crazily enjoyable” (The New York Times) Whalefall returns with an immersive, cinematic novel about five World War I soldiers who stumble upon a fallen angel that could hold the key to ending the war.
Private Cyril Bagger has managed to survive the unspeakable horrors of the Great War through his wits and deception, swindling fellow soldiers at every opportunity. But his survival instincts are put to the ultimate test when he and four other grunts are given a deadly venture into the perilous No Man’s Land to euthanize a wounded comrade.
What they find amid the ruined battlefield, however, is not a man in need of mercy but a fallen angel, seemingly struck down by artillery fire. This celestial being may hold the key to ending the brutal conflict, but only if the soldiers can suppress their individual desires and work together. As jealousy, greed, and paranoia take hold, the group is torn apart by their inner demons, threatening to turn their angelic encounter into a descent into hell.
Angel Down plunges you into the heart of World War I and weaves a polyphonic tale of survival, supernatural wonder, and moral conflict.
Angel Down by Daniel Kraus. Releases in July 2025 from Atria Books. I feel like every time I turn around, a new Daniel Kraus book is being announced, lol. That man is a machine! But I couldn’t be happier. This sounds very different from his other books, and I’m very excited to read it.
From BookTok sensation and NYT bestselling author Rachel Gillig, comes the next big romantasy phenomenon: a gothic, mist-cloaked tale of a prophetess who is forced beyond the safety of her cloister on an impossible quest to defeat the gods with the one knight whose future is beyond her sight.
Sybil Delling has spent nine years dreaming of having no dreams at all. Like the other foundling girls who traded a decade of service for a home in the great cathedral, Sybil is a Diviner. In her dreams she receives visions from six unearthly figures known as Omens. From them, she can predict terrible things before they occur, and lords and common folk alike travel across the kingdom of Traum’s windswept moors to learn their futures by her dreams.
Just as she and her sister Diviners near the end of their service, a mysterious knight arrives at the cathedral. Rude, heretical, and devilishly handsome, the knight Rodrick has no respect for Sybil’s visions. But when Sybil’s fellow Diviners begin to vanish one by one, she has no choice but to seek his help in finding them. For the world outside the cathedral’s cloister is wrought with peril. Only the gods have the answers she is seeking, and as much as she’d rather avoid Rodrick’s dark eyes and sharp tongue, only a heretic can defeat a god.
The Knight and the Moth (The Stonewater Kingdom #1) by Rachel Gillig. Releases in May 2025 from Orbit Books. I missed Gillig’s last series, which I know lots of readers loved, so I definitely want to get in on the ground floor of her new fantasy series. This sounds amazing!
Oh I love the sound of Overgrowth. I hadn’t expected that synopsis with that cover and title. But I am intrigued! 😀
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Me too, it sounds so good, right?
All of these sound amazing! Thanks for sharing!
They do, I hope we both get to read them:-)
Overgrowth and The Knight and the Moth sound fabulous! Thank you for sharing, Tammy:)).
I hope we both get the chance to read them:-)
These sound like they are going to be very good.
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I hope so!
Oh. My. Stars. A new Mira Grant??? This is what I get for not following the news from NYCC more closely — I’m so excited now! The Daniel Kraus sounds amazing too. Such great picks!!
I’m excited for all of these! How are we going to wait???
Yes please to all of them. And I just KNEW when I was doing my post and featuring the Mira Grant book that I would see it here as well. Great choices and the other two are new to me.
I’m glad we both featured the Mira Grant, I’m so excited!
The Knight and the Moth sounds amazing!
Yes! I can’t wait:-)
The Knight and the Moth sounds fabulous!
It does, right? And the cover is fantastic:-)
Oooh new Mira Grant!! I didn’t know that was coming but that’s super cool. And it looks great!
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It does, right? I’m soo excited.
I missed the authors other duology too (although I do still want to check it out sometime) but I’m incredibly excited for The Knight & The Moth it sounds amazing. It’s already on my TBR but it’s my first time seeing the cover. I’m also intrigued by the Mira Grant one although it’s not the type I’d usually pick up. I do always tell myself that I want to get into sci fi more though.
I’m very excited to see what all the fuss about Rachel Gillig is!
The last one is the one more up my alley but you made me realize that I have never read a book by Mira Grant. I have read a lot of books by her other pen name but nothing by this one!!
I have only read one or two by Misa Grant, so I’m definitely excited for this one:-)
I’ve just finished Square³ by Mira Grant and it was my first work of hers that I’ve read. It was just the right amount of creepy and fun. I’ll try to read a few more of her books before Overgrowth comes out
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I haven’t read that one, but I do like her Mira Grant books because they are much edgier than the Seanan McGuire ones.
Interesting.. 🙂
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Definitely:-)
I absolutely NEED the first two! DIdn’t know there was a new Kraus book either, so I am thrilled to see it- and I love the cover! Thanks for putting it on my radar! Curious about the last one, too, though I have not read any books by the author, I may have to try one!
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I saw the Kraus book because I follow him on Instagram, otherwise I would have missed it!
I really like that blurb for Over Growth. Very well written to pull me in and make me want to purchase the book.
Agreed. I’m very excited to read a “Mira Grant” book, since most of the recent books I’ve read of hers are “Seanan McGuire.”
Overgrowth sounds so good! I love plant horror 😀
Some interesting books and some great covers. The Rachel Gillig appeals to me in particular.
Lynn 😀