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
Three cool covers, three awesome sounding horror & sci-fi books, take a look:
The acclaimed author of the “disorienting, creepy, paranoia-inducing” (Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World) A History of Fear returns with a spine-tingling new thriller about a weight loss treatment with potentially murderous side effects.
Retail worker Emmett Truesdale has never fit the Southern California mold of six-pack, suntanned masculinity. Over three hundred pounds, he carries the weight of his childhood trauma and millennial ennui around his waist and in his soul. After trying every diet under the sun, he remains stuck—in his dead-end job, in love, and in his body.
Desperate for help, he enrolls in a clinical trial for a new weight loss product called Obexity. The treatment is as horrifying as the results are miraculous and as Emmett sheds pounds at superhuman speed, every part of his life improves overnight.
Unfortunately, Obexity comes with some killer side effects, including lost stretches of time and overwhelming cravings. Worse, people who were cruel to him have started disappearing and when the police warn of a cannibalistic killer on the loose, he fears that Obexity is turning him into a monster. But how can he give it up now that people are finally starting to treat him like he’s human?
Nerve-racking, sinister, and at times surreal, Nothing Tastes as Good is an unputdownable thriller that combines The Substance with the best of Stephen King and keeps you guessing until the final page.
Nothing Tastes As Good by Luke Dumas. Releases in March 2026 from Atria Books. I had a lot of fun with Dumas’ The Paleontologist a couple of years ago, so I’m very happy to see he has a new book coming out. This sounds really good, and the blood-filled donut on the cover is making me cringe and want to read this at the same time!
Gideon the Ninth meets Moby Dick in USA Today bestselling author Alexis Hall’s science fiction debut, Hell’s Heart!
Earth is a ruin, and the scattered remnants of humanity scavenge what they can from the stars under the watchful auspices of a grab-bag of collectives, corporations, and churches which are all that remains of what we once called society. Having long exhausted any conventional sources of energy, life in the solar system is now sustained by a volatile, hallucinogenic substance called spermaceti, which is harvested from the brains of vast cetacean-like Leviathans that swim the atmospheric currents of Jupiter.
Finding herself with no money and little to occupy her groundside, the narrator (“I”) takes a commission aboard the hunter-barque Pequod as it sets out in pursuit of precious spermaceti. Once aboard, however, she finds herself pulled inexorably into the orbit of the barque’s captain, a charismatic but fanatically driven woman who the narrator names only as “A”. As the Pequod plunges ever deeper into the turbulent, monster-haunted atmosphere of the gas giant, the narrator begins to lose herself in the eerie word of Leviathan-hunting and the captain’s increasingly insistent delusions; the only thing that might keep her grounded is the bond she develops with Q, a woman from the wreck of Old Earth whose skin is marked with holographic light and who remembers things otherwise lost.
Hell’s Heart by Alexis Hall. Releases in March 2026 from Tor Books. This sounds totally crazy! The Gideon the Ninth comparison worries me a bit, but I like the sound of the story and characters. The cover is really cool too, and I know Barb will appreciate the tentacles:-)
The Body is a pulse-pounding supernatural horror story from bestselling author Bethany C. Morrow, where one woman must survive a series of bizarre and escalating attacks on her marriage.
Mavis broke from her parents’ congregation years ago, but she still hasn’t recovered. Their impossible expectations and soul-shredding critiques have dug deep into her mind, and she’s taunted by the knowledge that even when she’s done nothing wrong, she’ll never be right.Now Mavis is afraid she’s about to lose the only thing she has: her husband, Jerrod. The man she’s always known was too good to be true. No one thinks she deserves him—not even after surviving the serial cheater they wanted her to stick by—and soon they’ll all find out they were right.
Mavis is already unraveling when a brush with death shows her what real fear looks like. Soon, she’s under constant attack from all directions. As the assaults turn increasingly vicious and bizarre, Mavis realizes that Hell isn’t reserved for the afterlife.
And sinner or not, no one is coming to save her.
The Body by Bethany C. Morrow. Releases in February 2026 from Tor Nightfire. I have to admit I find this blurb confusing, but still, I trust Nightfire so I’ll definitely keep it on my TBR.
I thought the first one was going to be a vampire novel with the bloody doughnut on the cover lol. I’m intrigued by the last of these although like you I don’t know exactly what to expect from the blurb. I think that alone has kind of left me curious to discover the truth though
I’m not sure what it says about me – other than I REALLY like doughnuts far too much. But I was licking my lips at the image, having completely missed that it was filled with blood, rather than raspberry jam. Love the premise, too:)).
The blurb for The Body is definitely confusing but it also sounds a little bit intriguing as well.
I think I will be trying all of these.
I agree that the description of The Body doesn’t really say much, and yet I’m intrigued… also really like that cover for some reason. I kinda love how the shovel stands out against the backdrop. Thanks for sharing, Tammy!
Okay, you got me this week, I added all three. Nothing Tastes So Good interests me because of the popularity of all the diabetic meds that were being used for weight loss and everything that went along with it. Although I am still bitter my husband was struggling to get his meds because of the shortage it caused. And pink tentacles! I NEED that one in my life pronto!
I am surprised with the cover of Alexis Hall! It’s so far from his usual “look and feel”
Haha, that first one has completely ruined jammy donuts for me!
Lynn 😀
Hell’s Heart looks intriguing! I don’t think I’ve read an Alexis Hall book before, but maybe I’ll add this one.
I swear I have to start doing cover posts more often because Hell’s Heart is on my monthly list too (it is probably my favorite 2026 cover so far!)! I am very excited for The Body, too. Nothing Tastes as Good is new to me, but I need it too, it sounds great!
I’m so into all of these–and they’re all new to me! I read Dumas’ The Paleontologist and The History of Fear a while back and I am so ready for something new from him!
Alexis Hall’s book sounds interesting!! And the other two seem pretty original too! Thanks for sharing!!