Hey bookworm friends, get excited because it’s #scifimonth2024! This is the first year I’m participating in this blogging event, and I’m hoping to soak up some scintillating sci-fi stories. Today’s TTTopic is Books with *Insert Item* on the Cover. Luckily (or cleverly), it lends itself perfectly to sci-fi month’s prompt of “Future Cities” so I’ll be sharing book covers featuring futuristic cities or buildings. I’ll divide them into two categories: those I’ve read and those on my TBR.
Link-ups
Thanks to the Sci-Fi Month hosts: Imyril at There’s Always Room for One More,
Lisa at Dear Geek Place,
Annemieke at A Dance with Books,
and Mayri at bookforager
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. Don’t forget to check out her post and link up!
Read
Moon Soul – Nathaniel Luscombe │Cover Artist: Effie Joe Stock
Giant towers on a purple desert planet.
My Review
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Predator’s Gold (Mortal Engines Quartet #2) – Philip Reeve │Cover Artist: Ian McQue
Moving cities compete with each other for resources in a steampunk dystopian world.
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The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport – Samit Basu│Cover Artist: Sparth
Shantiport is an Indian-inspired sinking city. This cover is focused on the details of a street but I still think it counts.
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A Prayer for the Crown-Shy – Becky Chambers│Cover Artist: Feifei Ruan
A solar punk city & A robot & monk journey together through rural areas.
My Series Review
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Lost Ark Dreaming – Suyi Davies Okungbowa │ Cover Artist: Raphael Lacoste
A few sinking towers are left in this post-climate disaster novella.
My Review
TBR
Service Model – Adrian Tchaikovsky│Cover Artist: Could not find.
Humanity is a dying breed reliant on artificial labour and service.
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Mushroom Blues – Adrian M. Gibson │ Cover Artist: Felix Ortiz
Cyberpunk mystery of the Fungal variety.
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Gogmagog – Jeff Noon & Steve Beard│ Cover Artist: Ian McQue & Alice Claire Coleman
A Sci-Fi Fantasy where an old woman, a young girl, and a mechanical man journey through a vast estuary toward the city of Ludwich.
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The Way Up Is Death – Dan Hanks │ Cover Artist: Sarah O’Flaherty
A giant tower suddenly appears in the skies over England. Above the doorway is one word: Ascend.
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The Great When – Alan Moore │ Cover Artist: Nico Delort
Imagine a world where ‘The Great When’, another London which is beyond time, exists. Sci-fi Fantasy.
Let’s chat in the comments!
Did you participate in this week’s TTT? If so, feel free to share your link below. Do any of these books sound intriguing to you?
These are all beautiful covers, but I especially love the one for Moon Soul!
Thanks for visiting my blog, Lindsey! And I agree they’re all so pretty and Moon Soul was such a cozy sci-fi that I loved too!
Ooh enjoy Sci fi month. It’s a genre I really want to try and get into so hopefully I’ll try it out one year. Either next year or the one after depending on how my readings going. I hope you have a lovely time and maybe your posts will help me discover more sci fi to add to my list.
I do want to try the Mortal Engines one day having enjoyed the movie. The cover of Moonsoul has caught my eye so ill have to check the blurb out later (and your review too) what did you think of Jinn Bot I remember seeing it around?
Gogmagog is another I’m definitely going to have to look into. I’ve got the last two on my list as well although I think the tower one intrigues me most out of those two. It sounds so unusual. That and Service Model are also my favourite covers so apparently the colour scheme works for me 😂
I keep hoping for a third instalment in the Monk & Robot series!
While I think the duology is perfect as it is, I wouldn’t say no to a third installment either 😉!
Nice list! Have fun with sci-fi month. I haven’t read any of these but Service Model caught my eye.
This is such a great variety. I especially love Lost Ark Dreaming😁
I’ll have to look into some of these! The future of cities is fascinating to me.
Ooh, I love these covers! There’s something about images of futuristic cities that makes me want to pick a book up right away. Will have to check out some of these titles for sure!
Gogmagog is on my TBR too. The cover is stunning!
OOh fun topic choice! These are all new to me picks! This would be an interesting one for me to do and challenging as there usually aren’t any defining things to mark a location on my covers. Usually it’s people or things! Lol.
Thanks for visiting my TTT!