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 two new sci-fi books and one cozy fantasy, take a look:
Explore the Wild Black—where any signal could be a trap, any planet a mystery, and any companion a lifeline—in this trio of high-concept space adventures.
Deep Strike crews are accustomed to hostile terrain. But in Beasts of the Wild Black, Capt. Min Law and the crew of the Thunberg get more than they bargained for when they follow a garbled distress call to a seemingly quiet world. Meanwhile, in Pride of the Wild Black, Min’s mentor Maj. Gen. Alice Benner’s concern for her missing protégé draws her into a potentially wide-scale conspiracy. And in Lost in the Wild Black a wounded superintelligent cat named Bruce is trapped on a lethal planet desperate to send out a signal, no matter who—or what—hears it.
From the bestselling author of the Tide Child series, the tales that comprise this sweeping space opera collection are set at the outermost edges of the universe. Here, sapient animals, hostile ecosystems, and competing factions will test the very limits of loyalty, ingenuity, and courage.
Beasts of the Wild Black by R.J. Barker. Releases in January 2027 from Podium Publishing. I love when authors branch out from their regular publisher, and I love R.J. Barker and Podium, so for me this is a match made in heaven!
A royal secretary’s unremarkable life takes an unexpectedly magical turn when she is hired by an infamous Dark Wizard with more to him than meets the eye in this delightful cozy romantic fantasy by the author of Stay for a Spell.
Mummies, spiders, and poorly filed paperwork: Prepare to meet your worst nightmare.
Sensible, practical Honeyrose Brambling is the scourge of untidy desks and unsorted letters. Her life is careful, constrained, and predictable . . . and, after ten years as a royal secretary, unbearably boring.
So, when she accepts a job at the Dark Castle, she’s not sure what to expect: certainly nothing more exciting than filing paperwork, indexing archives, and staying out of the way of the many nightmarish creatures and unnerving oddities that call the castle home, like affectionate end tables, not-zombie unicorns, and at least one very large spider.
Her new employer is the Dark Wizard Raddux, the most powerful sorcerer in the Shining Realm—and a notorious recluse. But the more time Honeyrose spends with Raddux, a man as compelling as he is eccentric, the more she discovers that everything she thought she knew—about magic in general and the Dark Wizard in particular—is wrong.
Life at the Dark Castle is impractical, entirely unpredictable . . . and not at all boring. But there are more nightmarish things out there than even giant spiders. And when the worst happens, it falls to one very sensible ex–royal secretary to save the day. Because if she doesn’t, the Shining Realm could lose all its magic. Forever.
The Dark Wizard Falls in Love by Amy Coombe. Releases in April 2027 from Ace. I did not read Coombe’s last book yet, Stay For a Spell, but I don’t think the two are connected, so I’d love to jump into her new book. Such a cute cover, right?
Award-winning author Jared Pechaček takes us to a vast salt desert where wars are fought over water, a flaming angel brings judgment, and the only hope for mercy is a feral girl who knows nothing of her destiny.
Once, there were seas. Then the god of fire came. He defeated water, and under his rule the world has burned. The survivors live in the wasteland called the Salt, a vast desert where water is priceless and lives are cheap.The Mother of Waters promised she’d return to save humanity, reborn into the world she lost generation after generation. She promised to die for us, and bring a flood to quench the world’s thirst. Unfortunately, at the moment of greatest need, the Church lost track of her. The promised child was lost, raised by robotic scavengers, ignorant of her destiny. That feral messiah is now in the hands of a ragtag crew of fugitives with no plan to save anything but themselves.
Tomas is a pyric, blessed with the divine gift of fire and burdened with a stolen airship. At the helm are Three and Four, twin cyborg navigators who escaped the wreckage of their last vessel and now long for freedom from the August Union that created them. On their tail is Violet, chief paladin of the church of water, intent on bringing the messiah to her destiny. And in their cargo hold is the girl who can call lightning and bring rainstorms. Her life could save the rest of humanity.
What is that girl’s life worth in this dried-up world?
Where Fire Reigns by Jared Pechaček. Releases in February 2027 from Tor Books. OK this definitely sounds a bit on the weird side, but the cover is so intriguing, I’m definitely keeping it on my “watch” list.
What do you think of this week’s Future Fiction picks? Let me know in the comments!
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