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
The theme today is families and secrets: take a look at the cover reveals I saw this week!
A vibrant and emotional science fantasy about cousins trapped in mirrored worlds – the resplendent and verdant summer city and the ice-carved wastes of the winter city. For fans of Every Heart a Doorway and This is How You Lose the Time War.
Welcome to Jamie Pike’s Fairharbour – a city stuck in perpetual winter, its windows and doorways bricked shut to keep out the freezing cold, its residents striving to survive in the arctic conditions.
Welcome to Esther Pike’s Fairharbour – a city stuck in constant summer, its walls crumbling in the heat, its oppressive sunlight a relentless presence.
Winter and Summer alike, have both fallen under the yoke of oppressive powers, that have taken control after the cataclysm.
But both Fairharbours were once a single, united city. And in certain places, at certain times, one side can catch a glimpse of the other. As Jamie and Esther find a way to communicate across the divide, they set out to solve the mystery of what split their city in two, and what, if anything, might repair their fractured worlds.
City of All Seasons by Oliver K. Langmead & Aliya Whiteley. Releases in April 2025 from Titan Books. Individually, I love both Langmead and Whiteley, but together I’m hoping for something very special. This gorgeous cover was just revealed this week, and I cannot wait to read this book!
If you knew the world was ending, what would you sacrifice to protect your children? What would you want them to know both about yourself and survival? What secrets would you want to stay buried? With an innovative structure where survival guide meets domestic thriller, A Mother’s Guide to the Apocalypse explores what happens when the unshakable bonds of family are put to the ultimate test.
For Olivia Clark, the summer of 2024, was the beginning of the end. After defending her toddler triplets from a violent intruder she becomes obsessed with doomsday prepping, hoping to protect her children from an increasingly unstable world. Olivia’s husband, Sam, insists she’s being irrational, but she finds solace in an online community of preppers who confirm her fear: the world is ending. Then one day Olivia is one of thousands of people swept away in a flash flood that wiped out half of Los Angeles.
Or that’s the story Sam tells his children.
Twenty years later, the Clark triplets uncover a box of their mother’s belongings that calls Sam’s story into question. Reeling from their father’s betrayal, the sisters connect with one of their mother’s friends and return to California to uncover Olivia’s true fate. Confronted by a world unlike anything they’ve ever known, where no one quite seems to be telling the truth, the sisters find themselves struggling with questions about the the father who raised them and the mother who may have abandoned them, all while trying to hold onto the only constant in their lives—each other.
A Mother’s Guide to the Apocalypse by Hollie Overton. Releases in August 2025 from Redhook. OK first, I have a complaint: publishers, if you’re going to do a cover reveal, PLEASE put the book on Goodreads! This makes no sense, and Orbit has been doing this a lot lately. So unfortunately I can’t link this up, but doesn’t it sound amazing?
In the vein of Alice Hoffman and Charlie Jane Anders’s own All the Birds in the Sky comes a novel full of love, disaster, and magic.
A young witch teaches her mother how to do magic–with very unexpected results–in this relatable, resonant novel about family, identity, and the power of love.
Jamie is basically your average New England academic in-training–she has a strong queer relationship, an esoteric dissertation proposal, and inherited generational trauma. But she has one extraordinary secret: she’s also a powerful witch.
Serena, Jamie’s mother, has been hiding from the world in an old one-room schoolhouse for several years, grieving the death of her wife and the simultaneous explosion in her professional life. All she has left are memories.
Jamie’s busy digging into a three-hundred-year-old magical book, but she still finds time to teach Serena to cast spells and help her come out of her shell. But Jamie doesn’t know the whole story of what happened to her mom years ago, and those secrets are leading Serena down a destructive path.
Now it’s up to this grad student and literature nerd to understand the secrets behind this mysterious novel from 1749, unearth a long-buried scandal hinted therein, and learn the true nature of magic, before her mother ruins both of their lives.
Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders. Releases in August 2025 from Tor Books. It’s been years since I’ve read a Charlie Jane Anders book, but I loved All the Birds in the Sky, so I’m excited to read her upcoming book.
Love that first cover.
All the Birds in the Sky sounds really familiar. I think I might have a copy of that somewhere but I’m pretty sure I haven’t read it yet. Will have to go and check 😀
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City of All Seasons sounds really good. Tammy, what would you choose, always winter or always summer? 😛
I’d definitely choose summer!
City of All Seasons looks interesting! Idk why I never check out Titan Books on NG, but when I learn about their line up from bloggers I do think their upcoming pubs look interesting.
Titan has so many good books, I actually feature them quite a bit.
OK, wow, all three sounds like must-reads for me! I also haven’t read a Charlie Jane Anders book in ages, but I loved All the Birds in the Sky, and the other two sound amazing as well. More for my TBR!
Oh good, another All the Birds in the Sky fan:-)
There is why I became a Goodreads librarian so I could create book editions as needed for posts. Audiobooks are often not created.
But can you add new books if they aren’t on GR yet?
You’re always adding to my TBR. These look and sound great!
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INteresting looking books. 🙂
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Ooh, City of All Seasons sounds awesome! Thanks for introducing me, Tammy.
I can’t wait, it’s going to be awesome:-)
100% agreed on Lessons in Magic and Disaster – I can’t wait for that one!
Ooh I’m definitely going to have to check out the first of these and I love the cover for it too. I’m also curious about the middle one as I wouldn’t mind discovering the truth behind the disappearance involved.
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A lovely lot of fascinating reads!! I love the sound of all of them – and I echo your frustration with publishers who don’t put books on Goodreads.
City of All Seasons does sound interesting. Reminds me of a couple other city-related stories I’ve yet to read with some interesting connection between two cities, or a city split in some way (I think one is by China Miéville). Fun ideas for stories, that’s for sure.
Love the sound of City of All Seasons and A Mother’s Guide to the Apocalypse! I feel like I really need to get organized for 2025 and start keeping track of a better TBR because of everything amazing coming out, haha.
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Great picks. I’m particularly interested in City of All Seasons.
Lynn 😀
Family and secrets is a great theme! And all the books you mentioned sound intriguing!!
Ooh, okay, I’ll check out CITY OF ALL SEASONS A MOTHER’S GUIDE TO THE APOCALYPSE also sounds intriguing. It is too bad that only librarians can add books to Goodreads nowadays, although I suppose I can understand why they limited that feature…
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I think most uploads are done by the Goodreads community, I’m a GR librarian and there’s supposedly an easy way to mass transfer over isbns from new book catalogues but I’ve not done it lol. In any case, good to know there are more Orbit and Redhook incoming!