If you’re looking for something to love this month of Valentine’s Day, this list of science fiction and fantasy books releasing in February just may do it for you.

The Short List

Smoke & Summons by Charlie N. Holmberg – February 1

Sandis has a rare power. She can host a demon of incredible power and her master can summon that demon at will. When she goes on the run to escape her evil master she teams up with Rone, a thief who has a device that grants him immortality for one-minute each day. Together they hope to elude Sandis’s master.

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People’s Future of the United States edited by Victor LaValle and John James Adams – February 5

Unlike plenty of science fiction anthologies filled with dystopian futures and plagues, this collection features 25 stories of hope and a future not filled with oppression. Contributing authors include Charlie Jane Anders (who also has a full novel out this month), N.K. Jemison, Seanan McGuire, Catherynne M. Valente and more.

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Polaris Rising by Jessie Mihalik – February 5

A distant future space opera in which Princess Ada has no actual power or value for that matter, except as a bride to be given in a politically arranged marriage. Ada, having none of that, runs for the stars. Unfortunately, she is captured and during her return voyage she meets up with a brutal fugitive, and together they actually may have a chance.

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Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds by Gwenda Bond – February 5

The first official Stranger Things novel takes place in the summer of 1969 with a young woman named Terry and a mysterious science lab called the Hawkins National Laboratory. Terry signs up as a test subject and meets another young woman with superhuman powers and no name. They just refer to her as 008.

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The Ingenious by Darius Hicks – February 5

Ages ago the city of Athanor was untethered from space and time and now serves as a place for political exiles to be sent. Isten and her band of exiles survive on the streets of Athanor trying to figure a way to escape and return to their homeland to lead a revolution. How do you escape from a city like Athanor?

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Your Favorite Band Cannot Save You by Scotto Moore – February 5

Beautiful Remorse makes music their fans cannot resist. Really cannot resist. When a music blogger notices and decides to follow the band on tour it becomes apparent that there is way more to the band’s lead singer than meets the eye.

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The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders – February 12

Anders, the co-founder of io9, returns with her second science fiction novel. This one is set on January, a planet that is dying with one side a frozen wasteland of permanent nighttime while the other side is scorching and always daylight. Only two cities try to survive in the small area of dusk that separates them. Sophie was exiled to certain death on the night side, but she lived and has assembled a ragtag group that might just be able to change the entire world.

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This is Grumpy’s Best Bet this month. I loved All the Birds in The Sky and this sounds just as fun.

The Afterward by E. K. Johnston – Februrary 19

Kalanthe, a knight and Olsa, a thief, find that life after the glorious deed of saving the ailing king isn’t all they thought it would be. After all, for Olsa, it is hard to be a thief when everyone knows who you are. Somehow these two must see what the godsgem, which healed the king, still has in store for them, and find their way back to each other.

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No Way by S. J. Morden – February 26

In the sequel to the thriller One Way, Frank Kitteridge has been abandoned…on Mars, and he is determined to get home. The corporation that left him there shouldn’t have left him alive, and then Frank finds out that he is not alone. A little of The Martian filled with some good old fashioned corporate evil.

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If these aren’t enough for you, here’s the entire list of scifi and fantasy new releases. This list is huge and it is updated hourly. Check it out.

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