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
Take a look at these three Summer 2025 fantasy and science fiction releases, all with fantastic covers!
Exploring the power of AI and morality, Dot Slash Magic is a new, spicy urban fantasy standalone from TikTokker Liz Shipton, perfect for fans of I am Number Four and ACOTAR.
What if you wrote a magic computer program? What if that magic computer program started summoning monsters?
When twenty-something coder Seven Jones goes back to school at a community college in San Diego, the last thing she wants is to join some stupid club. And the last thing she expects is to walk into an underground magic club. Like, actual wizards and shit.Seven reluctantly joins the motley crew of magic weirdos and discovers her own power. But she struggles to control it…until she figures out how to channel her magic through an artificially intelligent computer program.
Unfortunately, there is literally nothing Seven’s new friends hate more than AI, and when a student mysteriously turns up dead, blame falls on Seven. Is her “creepy artificial magic” summoning terrifying creatures to hunt students? Or is someone trying to frame her?
With only one person—cute ex-Navy seal Logan—on her side, Seven fights monsters (Dragon? Check. Kraken? Check) while struggling to convince everyone that her AI has nothing to do with them.
But how can she convince her peers when she isn’t totally convinced herself?
Dot Slash Magic by Liz Shipton. Releases in August 2025 from Angry Robot. I follow Liz Shipton on Instagram, and she’s hysterical. So when she announced that Angry Robot would be publishing her next book, I couldn’t wait for the cover reveal. This sounds like fun, although boo, it’s so far away!
From sci-fi visionary and acclaimed author Annalee Newitz comes Automatic Noodle, a cozy near-future novella about a crew of abandoned food service bots opening their very own restaurant.
While San Francisco rebuilds from the chaos of war, a group of food service bots in an abandoned ghost kitchen take over their own delivery app account. They rebrand as a neighborhood lunch spot and start producing some of the tastiest hand-pulled noodles in the city. But there’s just one problem. Someone―or something―is review bombing the restaurant’s feedback page with fake “bad service” reports. Can the bots find the culprit before their ratings plummet and destroy everything they created?
Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz. Releases in August 2025 from Tordotcom. This sounds sort of cute and ridiculous and I really want to read it!
A slow burn, enemies-to-lovers romance featuring a scholarly healer and a gentleman assassin, set in an exquisite fantasy world.
Osric Mordaunt, member of the Fyren Order of assassins, finds himself in dire need of an expert healer. As fate would have it, that very healer is Aurienne Fairhrim, a member of his enemy Order, the Haelen.
Aurienne is desperate for funding to heal the sick, so desperate that when Osric breaks into her office to offer her a bribe for her healing services, she must accept. Even if she loathes him.
A forced collaboration ensues: the brilliant Woman in STEM is coerced into working with the PhD in Murders – much to Aurienne’s disgust. Despite being enemies thrown together, as Osric and Aurienne work together to solve not only his illness, but the mysterious reoccurrence of a deadly Pox, they find themselves ardently denying their attraction which seems to only fuel the heat between them.
The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy (Dearly Beloathed #1) by Brigitte Knightley. Releases in July 2025 from Ace Books. I’m in love with the title and the cover, and I’m hoping the story is just as good.
The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy does have a lovely cover and the story sounds fun too 😀
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I love the sound of Dot/Slash/Magic.
And the title alone makes me want to pick up The Irresistible Urge – it sounds like it’s going to be playfully poking fun.
Lynn 😀
All of these sound excellent! I nearly featured Automatic Noodle this week as well just because I love the title I’ll definitely keep an eye on dot/slash/magic.
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