Star Wars, Wild Massive, The Cradle of Ice and The Iron Wolf, plus 17 more of the most anticipated new releases in sci-fi and fantasy books of February 2023
Jedi Knights. AI slaves, saints and vicious emperors who absolutely must die. From mythological high fantasy to urban and epic YA and speculative sci-fi fantasy to dystopian thrillers and space operas – these are some of the most anticipated new releases in sci-fi and fantasy books in February 23.
New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books in February 2023
Wild Massive
7 February 2023
Prepare for a breakneck, genre-bending ride through countless worlds with Scotto Moore’s trademark wildly imaginative fiction and wit. Carissa is a bit of an elevator-hermit who’s content to just travel between the floor-worlds of the infinite Building, never actually visiting any. But when a mysterious stranger intent on saving many worlds lands on top of her elevator, she’s forced into the Wild Massive network of equally bewildering, shall we say… theme parks? In Wild Massive.
Genres Science Fiction, Fantasy, Adult, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy
Author Scotto Moore | Home Seattle, US
Publisher Tor Publishing Group | Buy it
Encore In Death
7 February 2023
Something different: The 56th book in the Eve Dallas In Death series, the romantic murder-mystery-style Encore in Death sees detective Eve called to a Hollywood celebrity couple’s A-lister event after the husband dropped dead after raising a toast. Problem is the drink was intended for his wife, and with so many attendees, staff and servers in one place, it’s quite a task figuring out who planted the poison. Not to mention Eve’s aversion to the limelight amongst all these glitterati in JD Robb’s Encore in Death.
Genres Science Fiction, Romance, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Adult, Crime
Author JD Robb | Home born Boonsboro, Maryland, US
Publisher St. Martin’s Press | Buy it
These Infinite Threads
7 February 2023
The sequel to Tahereh Mafi’s best-selling This Woven Kingdom, These Infinite Threads sees Alizeh, the heir to the Jinn throne, and Kamran, the heir to the human throne, fall in love. But as a murderous foe kills Kamran’s family (leaving him perhaps the human king) and kidnaps Alizeh, Kamram must hurry to find her and undo the devil’s deal – that is unless she’s already become the new Jinn queen. In These Infinite Threads.
Genres Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Mythology, High Fantasy
Author Tahereh Mafi | Home born Connecticut, lives Santa Monica, California, US
Publisher HarperCollins | buy it
Seven Faceless Saints
7 February 2023
In her debut novel, M.K. Lobb paints a picture of a dark city ruled by saints and disciples. A rule which, after her father’s death, rebel Rossana is determined to end, even if it means confronting the disillusioned security captain who broke her heart, Damian. In fact, as a murderer rakes up victims in the city streets, Rossana and Damian are forced to work together as terrible darkness closes in, in Seven Faceless Saints.
Genres Fantasy, Young Adult, Mystery, LGBTQ, Thriller, Dark Fantasy
Author MK Lobb | Home Canada
Publisher Little, Brown Books | Buy it
The Cradle Of Ice
7 February 2023
The second book in his Moonfall series, James Rollins brings us back to the unlikely fellowship of a soldier, a thief, a lost prince and a young girl who set out in the middle of great wars to stop the coming apocalypse. But now, just as their binds seem strongest, the group must split up and brave a vast new world of ice and legend, before time runs out.
Genres Fantasy, Science Fiction, Post Apocalyptic
Author James Rollins | Home born Chicago, Illinois; lives Sacramento, California, US
Publisher Tor Books | buy it
World Running Down
14 February 2023
Prolific artist and self-publisher Al Hess brings a story of a dystopian Utah salvager who faces salt pirates to eke out a living and dreams of one day making it to Salt Lake City where the transgender medical procedures he needs are accessible. And he gets just such a chance, but in order to make his dreams come true, he has to do the unconscionable: destroy his found family and betray sentient AIs into a life of slavery in World Running Down.
Genres Science Fiction, LGBTQ, Adult, Dystopia, Post Apocalyptic
Author Al Hess | Home US
Publisher Angry Robot | Buy it
The Tyranny Of Faith
14 February 2023
One of the most prominent in both sci-fi and fantasy books in February. In the second book in Richard Swan’s Empire of the Wolf series, Sir Konrad Vonvalt returns from battle to a capital city in the throes of a rebellion stirring against the Emperor. And, charged with locating the Empire’s kidnapped prince, Vonvalt and allies Helena, Bressinger and Sir Radomir must head south to face the templar knights – and a perhaps more terrifying dark power than any could have imagined in The Tyranny of Faith.
Genres Fantasy, Adult, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy
Author Richard Swan | Home born Yorkshire, UK; lives Sydney, Australia
Publisher Orbit | Buy it
Star Wars: The Battle Of Jedha
14 February 2023
Part of the multimedia Star Wars: The High Republic project, The Battle of Jedha follows on from 2022’s Convergence. Jedi travel to the moon of Jedha, a place where the Jedi are just one of many factions who study the force. But their presence here stirs trouble, perhaps big enough to ignite a war that could engulf the whole galaxy. (You might remember the battle of Jedha from the Star Wars movie Rogue One; see it from a new angle in the all-new Star Wars: The Battle of Jedha.
Genres Star Wars, Science Fiction, Adult, Space Opera, Canon
Author George Mann | Home born Darlington; lives Lincolnshire, UK
Publisher Random House Worlds | Buy it
Hopeland
14 February 2023
Part love story, part tech thriller, Hopeland is a picaresque novel that starts with two people who meet during the London riots. But their love cannot be because he is “cursed”, and they are doomed to circle each other at a distance for years through events that shape the 21st century and their manifold ties to one family in Ian McDonald’s Hopeland.
Genres Science Fiction, Historical Fiction
Author Ian McDonald | Home born Manchester, lives Belfast, Ireland
Publisher Tor Books | Buy it
The Last Tale Of The Flower Bride
14 February 2023
In a chilling Mexican Gothic style, this book is the story of a scholar of myths who accompanies his mysterious wife to her childhood home, where the house itself seems to want to tell him something important about his bride. If only he can manage to distinguish reality from fantasy in The Last Tale of the Flower Bride.
Genres Fantasy, Gothic, Adult, Horror, Romance, Mystery, Thriller
Author Roshani Chokshi | Home born Saint Louis, Missouri; lives Georgia, US
Publisher HarperCollins | buy it
The Cage Of Dark Hours
14 February 2023
The second book in Lostetter’s The Five Penalties epic fantasy series, The Cage of Dark Hours sees Krona and her Regulators survive defeating a back-from-the-dead serial killer, but new information about the dark forces that control their world will drive them to battle the elite and fend off beasts from beyond the foggy barrier, all in search of the truth behind the children’s story of the Thalo, the legendary quiet, creeping puppet masters who control it all in The Cage of Dark Hours.
Genres Fantasy, Horror, Adult, Epic Fantasy, Mystery, High Fantasy
Author Marina Lostletter | Home born Oregon; lives Arkansas, US
Publisher Tor Books | Buy it
The Jaguar Path
16 February 2023
The next instalment in Anna Stephens’s Songs of the Drowned series sees the lands of Ixachipan controlled by the Empire of Songs’ hypnotic, magical music. All the rebels are dispersed and Xessa, Lilla and Tayan are ensnared in the empire’s machinations to fully control the populace and use them for its future battles. Yet each of them still harbours a secret hope, waiting for a chance to strike at the Empire from within.
Genres Fantasy, Dark Fantasy
Author Anna Stephens | Home UK
Publisher HarperVoyager | buy it
Arch-Conspirator
21 February 2023
Something a little different in this sci-fi and fantasy books of February collection. In this sci-fi retelling of the Sophoclean (441 BC Greek) story Antigone, the heroine (by the same name) and her siblings are taken in by her militant uncle Kreon, who takes her father’s throne after the death of her parents. But Antigone soon realises the siblings are here more as captives than family, Ad it’s time to test the strength of their gilded cage in Veronica Roth’s Arch-Conspirator.
Genres Science Fiction, Fantasy, Retellings, Adult, Dystopia, Mythology, Science Fiction Fantasy
Author Veronica Roth | Home born New York; lives Chicago, US
Publisher Tor Publishing Group | buy it
The Iron Wolf
21 February 2023
In the first book in the new Vardari series by The Raven Rings trilogy author Siri Pettersen, Juva, born of the swindlers they call blood readers detests her heritage. But the threat of the ageless vardari sets her on a course to rediscover the ancient blood reader legacy that once changed the world, and she might change her mind yet if she can confront the terrifying childhood memory she fought so long and hard to forget in The Iron Wolf.
Genres Fantasy, Young Adult, High Fantasy, Mythology, Scandinavian, Romance, Werewolves
Author Siri Pettersen | Home born Finnsnes; lives Søgne, Norway
Publisher Arctis | Buy it
Fallout
28 February 2023
The 10th book in the Hell Divers series, Fallout sees the aftermath of a traitorous nuclear explosion in Brisbane threatening the few remaining hell divers and human castle-settlements in the area, while carnivorous vines strike in Panama, betrayal rocks the Vanguard Islands and lethal radiation seeps out to destroy the last vestiges of humanity in Nicholas Sansbury Smith’s Fallout.
Genres Science Fiction, Dystopia, Pot Apocalyptic, Technothriller
Author Nicholas Sansbury Smith | Home Iowa, US
Publisher Blackstone Publishing | Buy it
A Day Of Fallen Night
28 February 2023
A standalone prequel to The Priory of the Orange Tree, part of The Roots of Chaos series, Samantha Shannon’s A Day of Fallen Night shows the course of events that changed the lives of four women – wyrm-slaying priory sister, queen and princess, and a devout trying to raise the gods from their slumber – and the age of terror and violence that will echo through their world for generations to come.
Genres Fantasy, Adult, LGBTQ, High Fantasy, Dragons, Romance, Science Fiction Fantasy
Author Samantha Shannon | Home London, UK
Publisher Bloomsbury | Buy it
The Magician’s Daughter
28 February 2023
Washed up on the shores of a legendary Irish island hidden by magic as a baby, Hy-Brasil and her guardian, the mercurial magician Rowan, is all that Biddy has ever known. But, when one day Rowan fails to return from his mysterious travels, Biddy must venture into the outside world for the first time to face the powerful enemies who’ve set against Rowan and, unwittingly, Biddy herself in The Magician’s Daughter.
Genres Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Adult, Magic, Magical Realism
Author HG Parry | Home Wellington, New Zealand
Publisher Hachette | Buy it
Emperor Of Ruin
28 February 2023
The third and final book in Django Wexler’s epic Burningblade & Silvereye series, Emperor of Ruin sees siblings Gyre and Maya reunite old allies from across The Splinter Kingdoms and Deepfire, as well as locate a legendary hidden weapon, to take down Ashok and Twilight Order once and for all.
Genres Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Adult, LGBTQ
Author Django Wexler | Home Seattle, US
Publisher Hachette | Buy it
The Crane Husband
28 February 2023
This retelling of the Japanese folklore tale “The Crane Wife” sees a fifteen-year-old has to grow up pretty fast to take up most of the responsibilities on the farm, including raising her young brother. This while her mother, an artist, becomes aloof and engaged in weaving tapestries. Until one day Mom brings home a menacing new “friend”, a six-foot tall crane who commands the woman’s heart and demands she weaves a very specific tapestry, in Kelly Barnhill’s The Crane Husband.
Genres Science Fiction Fantasy, Horror, Magical Realism, Retellings, Adult, Urban Fantasy, Fairy Tales
Author Kelly Barnhill | Home Minneapolis, Minnesota, US
Publisher Tor Publishing Group | Buy it
The End And The Death: Volume I
28 February 2023
And for something a little less traditional, legendary comic book writer Dan Abnett is releasing a hardcover version of the 8th book in the Warhammer 40,000 The Horus Heresy series. for Games Workshop. Horus Lupercal, aka the Warmaster, has defeated the legions protecting the empire. And now, with the gates flung open, there is nothing that can stop him from doing what he came for – to end the tyranny, to murder the emperor, his father. This is it, The End and the Death.
Genres Science Fiction, Space Opera, Space Fleet, Adventure
Author Dan Abnett | Home Kent, UK
Publisher Games Workshop | Buy it
Note: I try my best to get every bit of info I can, and will keep updating this page. If you know of an author and book that should be on this list of sci-fi and fantasy books in February, let me know at elvorne@scifixfantasy.com. And I’ll make it happen.
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