New Worlds Await: February 2026 Sci Fi and Fantasy Releases to Watch

All his life, Sixth of the Dusk has trapped Aviar—supernatural birds bonded to his people—on the deadly island of Patji. When star-faring invaders threaten to exploit those birds, Dusk pushes his people toward rapid modernization, fearing conquest even as tradition slips away. Desperate for another path, he ventures through a mystical portal into the emberdark, armed only with a canoe, his birds, and hard-earned cunning.

There he meets Starling, a young dragon bound in human form, whose debt-ridden crew seeks freedom. Together, they gamble on perilous alliances, dangerous politics, and the lingering power of a dead god.

Step right up to the dinosaur rodeo. Orphaned and perpetually broke, Tif Tamim dreams of becoming a dinosaur buckaroo, riding thunderous prehistoric beasts beneath the glow of a traveling big-top. He’s drifted from circus to circus chasing that dream, but no seasoned dino handler wants to train a scrawny nobody from nowhere. Everything changes when Tif rescues an abused dinosaur and risks the lawless, formerly-American west to bring it to safety.

His grit earns him attention at last—especially from a dazzling pair of eyes watching him cling to a bucking carnotaur.

Colonist Oliver Lewis wants a simple life on New Sonora: running the family ranch with his sister, playing the occasional gig, and keeping their aging agricultural bots running. When the long-dormant transfer gate reopens, he expects reconnection with Earth—not trouble. Instead, Earth’s government hires Apex Industries to “evict” the settlers. To cut costs, Apex turns the invasion into a game, letting wealthy Earthers remotely pilot war machines for fun.

As Operation Bounce House begins, Oliver and his friends fight for survival. Armed with his grandfather’s old book and scavenged parts, Oliver vows to defend the only home he’s ever known.

Najeeba has something terrible to kill—and she’s finally ready to face it. Now a fully trained, sharply focused sorcerer, she leaves the safety of her town with two companions: Dedan, a glass maker, and MorningStar, an aging camel. Their journey leads her back to the place where everything began, and toward truths far more dangerous than anything she faced in training. This final chapter isn’t about learning her power, but daring to use it.

Guided by courage and consequence, Najeeba must decide what she’s willing to sacrifice to finish what was started.

Green trips off a curb, nearly dies beneath a speeding bus—and then blinks back to safety. A towering crow watches him, invisible to everyone else. Shaken by visions of impossible creatures, Green follows the mystery to a remote Appalachian campsite and a centuries-old teacher who offers an extraordinary apprenticeship. Under his mentor’s gruff guidance, Green studies time-bending moths, glass fawns, and horned wolves, learning to see the hidden natural world in all its terror and beauty.

As he finds community and purpose among fellow misfits, Green also uncovers a looming danger threatening the fragile magic he’s come to love.

In the near future, a global AI system run by a powerful corporation controls nearly every medical school in the country—except one. Hippocrates, a defiant New Orleans program, still insists on human-led medicine and becomes the last resort for Pok, an ambitious student from New York. When Pok’s physician father dies under suspicious circumstances linked to the Shepherd Organization and its ruthless young CEO, Pok goes searching for answers.

At Hippocrates, he uncovers a disturbing mystery: newcomers raised under AI rule are dying from a strange illness—one that may connect to his father’s death and Pok’s own buried past.

Recruited by the secretive Project Kairos to avert ecological collapse, Echo and Hazel are flung into different points in time. Echo becomes a healer’s assistant in Ancient Athens, navigating perilous politics and radical philosophy. Hazel wakes as the last human alive, trapped in a lab on a poisoned island with only robots and a dubious AI for company. Both suffer from amnesia, yet meet each other in dreams that cross centuries.

As they piece together their shared past, they uncover a terrifying truth: remembering everything could doom humanity. To save the future, they may have to choose what to forget.

Ava’s people live under a brutal curse. Long after a mysterious Apocalypse shattered civilization, their small tribe survives among ancient ruins—until each person eventually transforms into a savage monster. Every year, the god Siaais selects champions to seek a legendary Cure, and every year they vanish. This time, the choice is different: one warrior, one scholar, and one healer—Ava herself, alongside her cousin Amelia and the fighter Amos.

Thrust into a desperate quest, they race against time through a world of ruins and secrets, where past, present, and future collide and nothing is what it seems.

Months after bonding with the shadow Pluck, Petra Grady has carved out a fragile place at St. Unoc University as the first shadow weaver in a thousand years. With researcher Benedict Strom’s support, she’s making history—but also enemies, and every new problem is quickly pinned on her and Pluck. When a novice weaver arrives, Pluck senses another presence: Thoth, a treacherous shadow whose ancient betrayal once shattered the balance between mages and weavers.

As Thoth turns the mage courts and the university against them, Petra and Pluck must uncover a buried truth and prove their innocence before shadows—and hope—are destroyed for good.

When Malt, the goddess of death, is accidentally transformed into a human by a rogue spell, she’s woefully unprepared for mortal life. Hunger, cold, and blistered feet were never part of her divine portfolio. Unable to survive alone, Malt reluctantly joins forces with Bellis, a hardened warrior, on a dangerous journey to the afterlife to reclaim her lost power.

Trapped in a fragile body and forced to rely on others, Malt proves a frustrating companion. Yet as irritation gives way to attraction, both women must learn to trust each other if they hope to survive the road ahead.

A century after the grays conquered what remained of humanity, John survives by following the rules—especially as the bonded companion of Martok Barden, one of the “good” grays. Broke, unstable, but occasionally kind, Martok treats John better than most humans are treated. That fragile security shatters when Martok uses John’s bond as collateral for a reckless business scheme. Suddenly expendable, John is caught between criminal grays, feral humans, and Martok’s spiraling delusions.

With sixty days before the loan comes due—and something deadly stalking the nearby woods—John must uncover the truth behind humanity’s domestication and find a way to buy back his own life.

Growing up in foster care taught Alexandria “Alix” Watson one hard truth: people fail you, books don’t. Juggling three dead-end jobs and dreaming of escape, she finds solace in the Boston Public Library—until she slips through a hidden door into the Astral Library, a secret refuge where the lost begin new lives inside beloved books. Its sharp-tongued, ageless Librarian takes Alix under her wing, but a shadowy enemy threatens everything the Library protects.

Forced on the run, Alix races through the worlds of Austen, Sherlock Holmes, and Gatsby, chasing answers about who—or what—the enemy truly wants to destroy.

Three years ago, Leena Al-Sayer discovered she can see the dead—a gift she hides to avoid imprisonment. When her beloved brother falls смертally ill, Leena makes a desperate bargain, trading her secret to the Saint of Silence, a ruthless merchant of confessions, in exchange for life-saving medicine. Her price: find the ghost of Percival Avon, last lord of Weavingshaw.

Drawn to a moorland estate that seems alive and hungry, Leena races against time as the house closes in, the dead refuse to stay silent, and her dangerous attraction to the Saint deepens—threatening her freedom, her heart, and her life.

After the heist of a lifetime, Malia should be satisfied—luxury digs on Kepler Station, designer clothes, and a stacked game account. Instead, she’s bored. Three years after retiring as the Obake, the galaxy’s most notorious hacker, civilian life isn’t cutting it. A small cybernetic prizefight scam draws the wrong attention, landing her in the sights of Jeongah Song, a ruthless gang leader. Rather than kill her, Jeongah makes an offer: dismantle a corrupt politician’s “cleanup” campaign or die.

With help from her old crew, Malia dives into a conspiracy tied to her own creation—and the failing tech in her brain—where losing could mean more than her life.

In 1785, Professor Sebastian Grave is summoned back to Gévaudan, where the infamous Beast has returned and blood once again stains the French countryside. A seasoned monster-slayer, Sebastian hunted the creature decades earlier, surviving only with the help of his heart-devouring demon, Sarmodel. Now he’s called by Antoine Avenel d’Ocerne—an estranged lover bound to the Beast by shared secrets and unfinished sins.

As France edges toward revolution and the Church watches his every move, Sebastian faces a hunt darker than before. Gévaudan has changed, and so has the Beast—threatening to ignite war and drag Sebastian’s past into the open.

When sensible second-year Emma Curran wins a prestigious research fellowship, she’s swept into the decadent world of the university elite—and into the arms of Jasper Balfour, aristocratic leader of the secretive Turnbull Club. This all-male society has shaped Britain’s power for centuries, and its traditions are darker than Emma ever imagined. During a brutal initiation game, the women run and the men hunt, and Emma is forced to flee for her life from the boy she loves.

Dragged into a strange new realm, Emma awakens transformed—no longer human, but something feral. To survive, she must embrace the beast within and fight back.

Vessel Iris serves the Starlit Order, performing funeral rites across the galaxy and guiding souls into the Infinite Light. Though his faith and AI companion sustain him, he longs for connection with the living. When the long-lost starship Counsel of Nicaea reappears after a thousand years, Iris is assigned to lay its dead to rest. Overtaken by moss and vines, the ship feels more forest than vessel, and Iris’s rituals clash with the scientists aboard—especially engineer Yan Fukui.

But something else has endured within Nicaea, hunting the team one by one. With his augmented abilities, Iris may be their only chance to survive.