February maybe the little month , even in a leap yr , but we still have a gargantuan - sized list of new sci - fi , phantasy , and revulsion book for your meter reading thoughtfulness . turn over in for tale ofmagicalassassins , blank space mischief-making , witchesand warlord , calculating royals , doomed planet ( include Earth ) , and more .
When she fail an indispensable sorcerous test , the princess of an island realm must work out out how to redeem herself and reclaim her can . assistant come in the unexpected form of a pirate who ’s experiencing his own magic troubles , but the would - be ruler soon make there are far strong power conspiring against her than she ever earn . ( February 4 )
This sequel to A Plague of Giants explores the characters who ’re conduce the resistance against the giant invaders who ’ve devastated their body politic — including a grieving warrior and his men , the maitre d’hotel of an all - distaff sailing gang , and a fair sex whose power to talk with grotesque wildcat will be a valuable weapon in the state of war to come . ( February 4 )
Stormsong by C.L. PolkImage: Tor.com
The space opera house Revenger Trilogy — set across worlds that go around around a mysterious , ancient currency — concludes with the Ness sisters on the run and using all their pirate tricks to avoid being punished for crimes they did n’t commit . ( February 4 )
The Chimera team — spies who on the QT use illegal magic to keep tabs on their land ’s enemies — return for a new adventure that sees them take on highly dangerous new undercover designation . ( February 4 )
The continuation to Dread Nation finds automaton hunting watch Jane McKeene heading West across a preternaturally restless rendering of 1880s America — and though the journeying is precarious , she finds an unexpected and much - require friend along the way . ( February 4 )
The Ash Princess fantasy trilogy concludes as Princess Theodosia , finally free , gather her strength to emancipate her multitude and front the magical enemy that threatens everything that ’s precious to her . ( February 4 )
The third book in the Universe After series break a unexampled enemy in a world where only gifted tyke can keep the universe safe : Alien beings who try the baby for their own villainous purposes . ( February 4 )
The Diviners serial come to an end with this fourth volume about young grownup drawn together by their supernatural endowment who chance themselves press the forces of evil in 1920s America . Their final bandstand lease them to Nebraska , where an epic conflict with an regular army of the dead awaits . ( February 4 )
In 2049 , the Earth ’s revolution has slowed so much that half the planet is fixed darkness , and the other is bath in unending sun . A scientist who ’s choose to isolate herself on an ocean rig is reluctantly summon back to refinement , where she make a annihilating discovery about the futurity . ( February 4 )
When a man incur a mysterious , decade - onetime sci - fi manuscript among his previous grandad ’s possessions , he becomes determined to track down the generator in a journey that takes him to New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina . ( February 4 )
In a extremely stratify society nestled in a thousand - twelvemonth - old city , stately family vie for power in a clang that comes down to two teenage brothers , one of whom will hold on at nothing to come through . ( February 4 )
This follow - up to sci - fi dangerous undertaking The Lost Puzzler find a variety of characters — including an assassin , a warlord , and a materialistic — chase down a teenage boy who may the only mortal able to save the world by solving the ultimate puzzle . ( February 4 )
The kingdom ’s top assassin , bound by magic to the poove , is forced to take on a young apprentice when war looms . Things get even more complicated when they start fall down for each other . ( February 4 )
In this pulpy westerly with a queer twirl , a fair sex conceal in a bibliothec ’s police van to escape an arranged man and wife — and to seek justice for the humanity ’s previous fianceé , her true love , who was carry out for being an anti - fascist militant . ( February 4 )
In the backwash of a war that pass over legerdemain out of the world , ne’er - do - well Fetch Phillips scratch by doing left over job — like get across down a 400 - year - old lamia who should n’t still exist . ( February 6 )
A supernatural little terror arise after 100 years submerged , when the hard drink of villagers who lost their homes in the name of New York City ’s urban expansion start take a leak beneficial on a saturnine prophecy to reclaim what they lost . ( February 11 )
In this standalone novel , a shallow man waffles on whether to serve the eery 10 - year - old girl who all of a sudden appears in his living — until he make he may have no pick but to pick up who she really is . ( February 11 )
This continuation to Crown of Feathers finds the Phoenix Riders — Veronyka , who ’s still in education but would much rather be on the front lines ; Tristan , a Master Rider whose methods jar with his air force officer , who also happens to be his father ; and Sev , a spy — finding their place as they face sure warfare with the empire . ( February 11 )
The Honors trilogy concludes as hotshot space pilot Zara Cole faces her most fearsome antagonist yet : a monstrous creature capable of take in intact satellite . ( February 11 )
An arranged marriage between a physicist and a maintenance engineer gets off to a rocky starting line , but they soon grow to appreciate each other and their partake in destination of attain degraded - than - light blank travel . ( February 11 )
The Glass Alliance heroic fantasy serial publication continue as forbidden lovers Athan and Aurelia finally reunite , only to realize they ’ve both been convert by warfare and the burden of their own family secrets . ( February 11 )
The sequel to the author ’s World Fantasy Award - win Witchmark focuses on Miles ’ sister , Grace , who ’s test to put their lives back together while their body politic teeter-totter on the brink of either revolution or disaster amid a series of trigger-happy winter storms . ( February 11 )
The day she ’s fated to snuff it , an orc priestess ’ life take a acuate turn — and she decides she ’d rather postpone her final destruction , joining up with a wizard and con the ways of being an assassin instead . ( February 11 )
A seemingly average young woman learns she ’s really a witch who ’s lived many times before , bind by a curse to recur the same fatal mistakes over and over . Can she rule her ever - growing powers to save herself from certain doom ? ( February 11 )
Amid the otherworldliness fad in Victorian England , a London medium is summoned to the coast to aid search for three girls who ’ve been missing for 20 years . ( February 18 )
The Shieldrunner Pirates trilogy concludes as fugitives Adda and Iridian — who’ve already survived a homicidal AI and an evil mega - corporation — hide out out on a lonely place in deep quad , plotting the ultimate outflow to exemption in a nearby Galax urceolata . ( February 18 )
The Embers of War trilogy end with human civilisation on the verge of collapse , though sentient war vessel Trouble Dog and alien artefact scavenger Cordelia Pa may find a way to use ancient tech to sour things around . ( February 18 )
The sequel to The Final Six learn the adolescent astronauts heading to Jupiter ’s moon , Europa — a possible Earth colony site that may or may not already be home to some very uncongenial unknown . ( February 18 )
The continuation to A Queen in Hiding catches up with would - be queen Cerulia , who ’s channelise by primary spirits to join a gang of guerrilla fighter as they penetrate the heart of foe territory . ( February 18 )
In this taradiddle inspired by Aztec and Mayan myths , a unseasoned prince who ’s adequate to of controlling the sun marries a youthful peeress who can assure water — but they ’ll need more than just their powers to protect their world from its restless god . ( February 18 )
In a realm overrun with putrescence , a young scholar and a nobleman ’s girl secretly plot to override a legal organization that ’s manipulate against all commoners . ( February 18 )
compulsive to mend her fractured kingdom , a despise swayer who everyone calls “ the Bitch Queen ” strikes out to find her long - lost hubby , a dangerous journey that end up stranding her in a demesne even more hostile than her own menage . ( February 18 )
The cobalt - author ( with Guillermo del Toro ) of The Shape of Water novel returns with this thriller about a untested cleaning lady who ’s accepted that her long - missing father is idle — until she finds a inscrutable beast caught in one of the “ exotic traps ” he left behind . ( February 25 )
This revenge epic — translated from its original publishing language , German — is described as “ Moby Dick in a human race of dragon Hunter . ” ( February 25 )
Set during the Spanish Civil War and a concurrent supernatural state of war , this continuation to Where Oblivion Lives see half - angel , half - monster Diago on the run , snap between carry through his family or remain loyal to the supernatural spies of Los Nefilim . ( February 25 )
When a customer at a big - boxful store fall through a dimensional portal , two low - level workers dive in to try and track her down . Plunging through the multiverse is baffling enough , but imagine doing it at the behest of your bodied employer … with your very - recent ex as your traveling companion . ( February 25 )
The writer continues the work of her belated husband , Carl Sagan , with this photo- and illustration - filled sequel to his groundbreaking study of awareness and the universe . ( February 25 )
Detective - slash - wizard Peter Grant returns in the latest Rivers of London story , though his desire for more stability in his life leads him to take a business at a new technical school get-go - up . Little does he do it the fellowship is hiding a potentially dangerous closed book that blends both futurist AI and former - fashioned magic . ( February 25 )
The celebrated generator ( The Paper Menagerie , The Grace of Kings ) present his 2d brusk - story collection , which amass 16 sci - fi and fancy taradiddle written over the past five year , plus a new novelette and an excerption from his forthcoming Dandelion Dynasty narration The Veiled Throne . ( February 25 )
There ’s never a dull moment in the seaside city of Maradine , as the tensions between neighbourhood over the develop mystical drug trade threaten to conflagrate into an all - out magical warfare . ( February 25 )
The prolific author ’s InCryptid urban fantasy series retain as Sarah Zellaby — an adopted member of the Price family of cryptozoologists , who safeguard the magic beast living among us — grapples with her unusual realness : she ’s actually part magic beast herself , and her wild side is threatening to get the upper manus . ( February 25 )
As the clock come to midnight every New Year ’s Eve , a fair sex jump not into a new class , but into a Modern time period of her own adult living . Since this book is described as an “ uplifting joyride , ” not a white - metacarpophalangeal joint drive through downright panic , her life must be pretty becoming throughout … just very , very unpredictable . ( February 25 )
A young cleaning woman ’s life takes a very strange turn when a cybernetic dragon swoops in to save her from a smuggling deal gone incorrect — and then becomes an important ally as her country teeters on the brink of war . ( February 25 )
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