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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It really does, I’m very curious to read it:-)
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 😀
So many good books already coming out next year, how will we cope??
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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I love the title too, and it sounds so cute:-)
My TBR is not happy at the moment, but I need all three of them!!
LOL go ahead and don’t feel guilty!
Who am I? I want to add all three of these sci-fi reads to my TBR (and actually just did). I am especially loving that cat! Great choices this week.
Thanks Barb, yep gotta love the cat cover:-)
Automatic Noodle looks amazing! I still have an older book by this author that I should finally get to… but this one’s going on my TBR list for sure!
I’m so excited to read it!
I loooove the title of The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy. A slow burn with enemies to lovers always hits good! 😀
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One of my favorite tropes too!
Oh I love the covers and sound of all of these! I’m particularly intrigued by Dot Slash magic and Automatic Noodle–and I think I’m extra obsessed with Automatic Noodle’s cover (and premise!).
I agree, the cover of Automatic Noodle is fantastic:-)
Dot Slash Magic definitely sounds intriguing. Thanks for introducing me, Tammy!
It really does sound good, I can’t wait:-)
The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy sounds right up my alley!
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Oooh, loving The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy vibes!
These look good, especially Dot/Slash/Magic!
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I have to wait til August for Automatic Noodle!? I LOVE The Terraformers from this author so I’m gonna need to read this!!
The last two look good, but I can’t say the description of Dot Slash Magic sounds much like ACOTAR at all!
I think The Irresistible Need to Fall for Your Enemy looks and sounds like a good read.
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These all sound delightfully quirky – but the one I really want to read is Automatic Noodles – that cover is fabulous:)).
Oooooh for once they all seem my jam Tammy! No horror in view LOL
Just added Dot Slash Magic to my watch list because it sounds amazing!
Dot Slash Magic sounds fun! That one is new to me. VERY excited for Automatic Noodle, too! The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy is new to me too, but I agree, the title and cover are fabulous, so I may need to add that one as well!
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Ooh I’m definitely going to have to add that enemies to lovers one to my list, I love the idea of a healer/assassin romance. I’m also kind of intrigued by the second one, especially as I want to try and pick both cosy and sci fi books up more.