10 August SFF book releases that will end your summer reading on a high note

Meet Me in the Future: Stories by Kameron Hurley

Those looking for brief doses of science-fiction can pick up Kameron Hurley’s short-story collection Meet Me in the Future: Stories later this month. Hurley’s latest has already received stellar reviews from the likes of Booklist and Publisher’s Weekly, and if that isn’t enough to convince readers to pick it up, her backlist speaks volumes about the quality of her work.

Meet Me in the Future: Stories transports readers to — you guessed it — the future, and the synopsis warns them to expect the unexpected. The stories have high stakes and a deep emotional impact, but they also offer fans of Hurley’s work a bit of humor and her trademark weirdness.

Some of the storylines teased in the collection’s synopsis include a body-hopping mercenary seeking vengeance for his elephant (wait, what?) and someone falling in love with a starship. If nothing else, a unique experience is something Meet Me in the Future: Stories is bound to deliver.

Hurley’s new collection hits bookstores on August 20, and it’ll provide SFF readers with a great and sometimes needed change of pace from the epic tomes they’re used to consuming. And if short stories don’t do the trick, they can always pick up her essay collection, The Geek Feminist Revolution.