Top new sci-fi books in February 2023

It was a glittering event full of A-listers, hosted by Eliza Lane and Brant Fitzhugh, a celebrity couple who’d conquered both Hollywood and Broadway. And now Eve Dallas has made her entrance—but not as a guest. After raising a toast, Fitzhugh fell to the floor and died, with physical symptoms pointing to cyanide, and the police have crashed the party...

From dystopian visionary and bestselling phenomenon Veronica Roth comes a razor-sharp reimagining of Antigone. In Arch-Conspirator, Roth reaches back to the root of legend and delivers a world of tomorrow both timeless and unexpected.Outside the last city on Earth, the planet is a wasteland. Without the Archive, where the genes of the dead are stored, humanity will end...

Summer, 1957. Atticus Turner and his father, Montrose, travel to North Carolina, where they plan to mark the centennial of their ancestor’s escape from slavery by retracing the route he took into the Great Dismal Swamp. But an encounter with an old nemesis turns their historical reenactment into a real life-and-death pursuit. Back in Chicago, George Berry fights for his own life...

The highly anticipated sequel to the Born of Ash series is finally here. The war is over. The First Galactic Empire has collapsed into ruin and ash. Or has it?Keira, having been hunted and almost killed by the Unified Planetary Government’s regulators, for reasons she does not fully understand, finds herself rescued by Marines and stranded on the Imperial Starship Seringapatam...

Can a lonely woman heal the cruel scars of an alien warrior’s past?A terrible war left Frantor scarred in body and soul. Now he hides on the isolated ranch he shares with his brothers-in-arms, determined to conceal his disfigurement.In the midst of a raging blizzard, he finds a beautiful human female on his doorstep...

A story of adventure, danger, deception, and forging one’s own destiny. Soren sets off to forge his own path. Along the way, he discovers a world of intrigue and danger. Rebellion and deception lurk at every turn.Exploring the unknown can be dangerous and exhilarating. Soren finds himself in the midst of the growing sparks of rebellion...

THE HOTTEST MILITARY SCIENCE FICTION SERIES OF ALL TIME CONTINUES WITH A COLLECTION OF TALES SET IN DAVID WEBER’S NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING HONORVERSEThe hottest military science fiction series of all time continues...

Chasing his twin sister through an unstable wormhole connects Quinn Hoffen with long-lost family struggling to overcome unscrupulous brigands…When a fishing trip on the Gnard Sea of Grünholz ends in catastrophe, Jennifer James is pronounced lost at sea...

Read Double Living first!Bits of Flower and Double Living both take place on the sentient colony ship, Flower, with overlapping timelines and characters. But Bits of Flower ends second, so it contains spoilers for Double Living...

Helem Gauss is gone, but his legacy lives on.Calamity, the digital plague, is spreading, and where it strikes is both ruthless and random. Fearful of the Earth being ravaged, Van and the crew go on high alert to keep his homeworld free of galactic influence.But that vision is shattered when Tony Burgess captures an alien ship. . . in Wisconsin. And the ship isn’t just a stray workboat...

Deep water and deeper trouble are the sum of George Dane’s life these days!As security chief of the human colony world Varuna, he’s worked hard to ensure his people's safety as they adapted to their new ocean-covered home...

Caleb Webb is the dictionary definition of disadvantaged, and surviving on his own is nothing new. When the apocalypse hits, his rugged skill set for staying alive on the mean streets of Los Angeles comes in handy. Unfortunately, he's on a collision course with the worst criminal cartel in the city, unless someone intervenes...

*The spellbinding conclusion of The Girl with the Gray Eyes. I’ve escaped one monster, but the real monster, Bill, is still at large.My enigmatic alpha leader, Tanis, is distant. My playful alpha, Garren, more so. Then there is my sweet beta, Red, giving me mixed signals. One moment attentive and caring, then the next, cruel...

Blurb coming soon!Handcuffing the Alien is Book 6 in the Beastly Alien Boss Series. Each features an Earth woman hired for an off-world job who meets a gruff alien who can’t resist falling for his fated mate...

The galaxy faces a rising chaos as a new threat looms to destroy everything. Seth Levy and his new friends have escaped the prison world though they only have a brief time to take a breath. When a damaged ship calls for aid, they move to assist but the dangers they may face could bring about an end to their newfound freedom...

The god of the forge...Life was good in the Neosphere District. I'd made a name for myself as a renowned supernatural bounty hunter, holding the record for most harpies slayed. But the best part about living in the future? Avoiding the other Olympian gods. Banishing a guy from Olympus because he was "imperfect" tends to make one hold a grudge. Go figure...

From the Bestselling Author P.S. Power comes an Exciting New Adventure You Don't Want to Miss...Jake is working hard to settle into his new home of Terrace Springs. The walled community has a lot to offer. Twenty-four hour guards, and thanks to him, built in lawn work.Still, even as he tried to make his way, he hasn't forgotten his goal...

One woman and her pilot are about to change the future of the species in an epic space opera about aspiration, compassion, and redemption by Hugo and Nebula Award finalist S. B. Divya.For five centuries, human life has been restricted to Earth, while posthuman descendants called alloys freely explore the galaxy...

Book 5 in the Warhammer 40,000 mega series, Dawn of Fire.A war-weary Battle Group Praxis arrives at the Knight world of Kamidar, ruled by the Iron Queen Orlah, to return the queen’s slain daughter and heir, who died fighting in Guilliman’s name...

The key to human immortality......comes with a destructive price.Imperial Special Agent Ayla Rin has uncovered a web of conspiracy leading back to the stronghold of the dangerous Robeni Space Pirates. Intelligence networks intercepted transmissions that indicate the pirates may have access to a new refined spore that can stop the aging process in humans...

Sister, Maiden, Monster is a visceral story set in the aftermath of our planet’s disastrous transformation and told through the eyes of three women trying to survive the nightmare, from Bram Stoker Award-winning author Lucy A. Snyder.To survive they must evolve.A virus tears across the globe, transforming its victims in nightmarish ways...

★★★★★ "This is 'Starship Troopers' on steroids."In a time of expansion, humanity has pushed the boundaries of our own solar system. One of the only ways to see it all is to be part of the United Systems Services. Most join for adventure, some due to court orders but a handful do it for duty...

Once again, we see Heinrich Schloss, a man from another future, wrestling to preserve Germany while divorcing it from a barbaric past. Schloss is desperate to reinstitute democracy through fair elections. Yet he finds the fight even more dangerous than when Germany battled the Russians...

Connie and Makar are home. But it’s hell. The Academy is on the brink of destruction, and only a raggedy group of cadets remains.Connie will have to learn why the simulation picked her to be its champion, and she’ll have to fight right until the end. But there’s no point in fighting unless you know what’s really there...

James and his team are stranded on Prime. Their way back is blocked and they face a world taking its last breaths. Only a small area of forest seems to defy the radiation and storms, and its nature puzzles the explorers. But on the horizon, they see the remains of a city and gain new hope - until they find out what really happened on this dark planet...

Fyia and Cal head north in search of dragons, but the Five Kingdoms are in disarray, many still questioning Fyia’s rule, and contesting her new laws. Amid the chaos, Essa fights to make the Small Council repair the dragon clocks, and eventually takes matters into her own hands, travelling to the Temple of the Sea Serpent. But what she finds is shocking, even to her...

A Native American boy becomes the focus for magic's reentry into the world. A Spanish dowser chases her son's kidnapper through a magical Early America. A storm shaman hijacks the weather and delays the spring.Colors and Ghosts contains Books 1–3 of The Red Wraith series (the first book of which was originally released in 2015 by Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing)...

Django and Mikka's paths collide as they embark on a journey that will shape the fate of a civilization built on half-truths and the backs of others. Rumors of civil war circulate through the Syndicate's orbital empire, catching both Django and Mikka in the crossfire, where the stakes are far higher than they realize...

Their paths crossed in an instant—and that’s all it took. A runaway bride in peril, the cyborg who saves her, and a passion neither of them can control.Aria is a brilliant scientist. She’s also betrothed to a clan-lord. It’s a wedding she’s always known would come, always accepted—until her wedding day...

Having chosen to join 'the Dark', Sebastian Parker faces his biggest challenge yet...

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Just as Covid-19 emerges, Captain Alec Grant (RN) received the news from the authorities in Hawaii that his daughter had been reported missing under strange circumstances...

"Datta's head-spinning, time-bending Time Corrector science-fiction/romance epic continues, after The Winding, with this follow-up that doubles down on the first book's already grand ambitions"—Booklife (Publishers Weekly) "A highly complex middle-chapter installment of an intricate SF/fantasy that requires sharp attention...

In this issue of The Dread Machine, meet a satyr, learn how to grow a garden in an apocalyptic wasteland, and compete against your coworkers in a battle royale for a shot at a paid vacation.Feel a mother's love, learn what happens when songs end, and befriend the entity living behind the wallpaper in your house...

In a world split up into the four seasons, based on personality traits, four teens are given roles they never expected to receive. As their worlds change, they're put in situations that may lead to harm...

The residents of Sterling, Indiana don't know who they are. Sixty-one year old Tory Stebbins runs an Identity Verification agency that can help. But, as her town implodes, so does her business. She has fewer clients, stiffer competition, and her methods have become mysteriously ineffective...

Jurassic Park meets Romancing the StoneDr. Grace Carson is one of the lucky few scientists cleared for time travel. Years ago, her husband nearly destroyed her career by poaching dinosaurs. Grace turned him in, divorced the deadbeat, and two years later she's ready to return to the work she loves: studying dinosaurs in their natural habitat...

The Darkness cursing Eden's history has festered long enough. The time for change, a Young Revolution, has come.Eden is a world of unrecognized history and potential, potential that is found in the heart of this cycle's prophesied hero, Seth. His mother was historically important to Eden's previous rebirth...

A wild, page-turning ride through the crazy, high-tech world of Silicon Valley, where startup founders aided by venture capitalists and blockchain tycoons are out to make their billions no matter what the cost. A unique novel with scenes in manga where a pair of aging elephants hold the key to stopping the murders...

A beguiling blend of noir detective story and science fiction perfect for fans of Michael Chabon and Emily St. John Mandel, this unputdownable debut imagines a world where emotions have been weaponized, and a small-town law enforcement agent uncovers a conspiracy to take down what’s left of American democracy...