The summer heat is intensifying and so is this edition of the Cover Reveal News Round-Up. We have a few and select covers to feature but they do make a resounding punch. We have a duology opener (set in a familiar world) by Veronica Roth, an Avatar (the animated one) companion book by Faith Erin Hicks, and my personally eagerly awaited collector's editions (not just one, not just two, but three!) by James S. A. Corey.
The Sixth Faction by Veronica Roth
Synopsis
The worldwide sensation as you’ve never seen it before. Step into a bold new Divergent series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth.
Beatrice Prior stands on the brink of a decision every person in her world must make: five factions, five futures, five lives.
She has a plan: she's going to make the bravest choice, and leave Abnegation behind to join Dauntless, even though it means leaving her family behind.
But when tragedy strikes at her Choosing Ceremony, everything changes—her world, her plans, even Beatrice herself.
Her ensuing decision thrusts her into the crosshairs of an underground rebellion, and into the path of a boy with secrets as dangerous as her own—a boy with only a number for a name.
One choice will change everything.
The Sixth Faction by Veronica Roth will be released on October 6, 2026.
Avatar: The Last Airbender -- Fire and Family Treasury Library Edition by Faith Erin Hicks, Peter Wartman (Illustrator), and Adele Matera (Illustrator)
Synopsis
The Avatar: The Last Airbender -- Fire and Family Treasury Library Edition hardcover collects the standalone comics stories Azula in the Spirit Temple, The Bounty Hunter and the Tea Brewer, and Ashes of the Academy. Featuring cover art from Peter Wartman as well as a bonus sketchbook section.
In Azula in the Spirit Temple, a failed attack on her brother finds Azula in a strange forest temple inhabited by a solitary monk…or is it something more mysterious? Azula must confront her past, and finally face her chance at redemption.
The Bounty Hunter and the Tea Brewer follows Iroh and the bounty hunter June, after she kidnaps the tea shop proprietor for the generous reward on his head. Iroh must confront a painful part of his past when June turns him in to a powerful tea cartel, but his journey inspires June to rethink her own life as well.
In Ashes of the Academy, Zuko continues his reform campaign in the Fire Nation—and this time he’s bringing it to the next generation of Royal Fire Academy for Girls students. When he finds Azula’s old school resistant to change, he enlists the help of Mai to both monitor the situation and keep an eye on his younger half-sister Kiyi—as an academy teacher! And it’s a good thing, because there’s more than schoolwork afoot!
Writer Faith Erin Hicks joins artist Peter Wartman, colorist Adele Matera, and Comicraft’s Jimmy Betancourt for the official comics continuation of the beloved animated series, created in collaboration with Avatar Studios.
Avatar: The Last Airbender -- Fire and Family Treasury Library Edition by Faith Erin Hicks, Peter Wartman (Illustrator), and Adele Matera (Illustrator) will be released on June 9, 2026.
Cibola Burn (Collector's Edition) by James S. A. Corey
Synopsis
A special edition hardcover that celebrates the fourth book in the NYT bestselling and Hugo award-winning Expanse series — a modern masterwork of science fiction with over 10 million copies sold worldwide. Cibola Burn sees the crew of the Rocinante on a new frontier, as the rush to colonize the new planets threatens to outrun law and order and give way to war and chaos.
This special edition hardcover includes:
- A striking new cover
- Stained edges and illustrated endpapers
- A reversible cover that features the full, uncropped artwork of the original cover art
Enter a new frontier...
"An empty apartment, a missing family, that's creepy. But this is like finding a military base with no one on it. Fighters and tanks idling on the runway with no drivers. This is bad juju. Something wrong happened here. What you should do is tell everyone to leave."
The gates have opened the way to a thousand new worlds and the rush to colonize has begun. Settlers looking for a new life stream out from humanity's home planets. Ilus, the first human colony on this vast new frontier, is being born in blood and fire. Independent settlers stand against the overwhelming power of a corporate colony ship with only their determination, courage, and the skills learned in the long wars of home. Innocent scientists are slaughtered as they try to survey a new and alien world. The struggle on Ilus threatens to spread all the way back to Earth.
James Holden and the crew of his one small ship are sent to make peace in the midst of war and sense in the midst of chaos. But the more he looks at it, the more Holden thinks the mission was meant to fail. And the whispers of a dead man remind him that the great galactic civilization that once stood on this land is gone. And that something killed it.
Cibola Burn (Collector's Edition) by James S. A. Corey will be released on December 8, 2026.
Nemesis Games (Collector's Edition) by James S. A. Corey
Synopsis
A special edition hardcover that celebrates the fifth book in the NYT bestselling and Hugo award-winning Expanse series — a modern masterwork of science fiction with over 10 million copies sold worldwide. Nemesis Games drives the crew of the Rocinante apart, and as they struggle to survive, the inner planets fall victim to an enemy's catastrophic plan.
This special edition hardcover includes:
- A striking new cover
- Stained edges and illustrated endpapers
- A reversible cover that features the full, uncropped artwork of the original cover art
A thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land rush in human history has begun. As wave after wave of colonists leave, the power structures of the old solar system begin to buckle.
Ships are disappearing without a trace. Private armies are being secretly formed. The sole remaining protomolecule sample is stolen. Terrorist attacks previously considered impossible bring the inner planets to their knees. The sins of the past are returning to exact a terrible price.
And as a new human order is struggling to be born in blood and fire, James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante must struggle to survive and get back to the only home they have left.
Nemesis Games is a breakneck science fiction adventure following the bestselling Cibola Burn.
Nemesis Games (Collector's Edition) by James S. A. Corey will be released on December 8, 2026.
Babylon's Ashes (Collector's Edition) by James S. A. Corey
Synopsis
A special edition hardcover that celebrates the sixth book in the NYT bestselling and Hugo award-winning Expanse series — a modern masterwork of science fiction with over 10 million copies sold worldwide. Babylon's Ashes sees the galaxy in all-out revolution. It's up to the crew of the Rocinante to make a desperate mission to the gate network for a thin hope of victory.
This special edition hardcover includes:
- A striking new cover
- Stained edges and illustrated endpapers
- A reversible cover that features the full, uncropped artwork of the original cover art
A revolution brewing for generations has begun in fire. It will end in blood. The Free Navy—a violent group of Belters in black-market military ships—has crippled the Earth and begun a campaign of piracy and violence among the outer planets. The colony ships heading for the thousand new worlds on the far side of the alien ring gates are easy prey, and no single navy remains strong enough to protect them.
James Holden and his crew know the strengths and weaknesses of this new force better than anyone. Outnumbered and outgunned, the embattled remnants of the old political powers call on the Rocinante for a desperate mission to reach Medina Station at the heart of the gate network. But the new alliances are as flawed as the old, and the struggle for power has only just begun.
Babylon's Ashes is a breakneck science fiction adventure following the bestselling Nemesis Games.
Babylon's Ashes (Collector's Edition) by James S. A. Corey will be released on December 8, 2026.
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