Romance...

"Wonderful girl! Either I'm gonna kill her or I'm beginning to like her." -Han

Yes, there really are romantic Science Fiction books. In fact, there are authors who write almost nothing else, and they sell pretty well. So if this is your cup of tea, there's plenty to choose from.

• Anne McCaffrey
  • The Ship Who Sang (Romance is more difficult when one party lacks a biological body)
  • The Ship Who Searched (Same problem, second verse, with a stronger base for the relationship)
  • "Crystal Singers" trilogy (Three different romances over the course of the books)
  • The Rowan (A powerful but lonely woman meets a mysterious man who needs her help)
  • Damia (The Rowan's daughter has pride and spunk, but she doesn't know the meaning of love)
  • Coelura (An heiress defies her father to protect the man she loves and his secret)
• Charlotte Boyett-Compo
  • Bloodwind (A dark romance between a bloodthirsty yet controlled alien killer and a human doctor.)
  • Nightwind (An incubus falls in love with a human woman.)
  • Windfall (A historical fantasy about star-crossed lovers braving everything- including each other.)
• Emma Bull
  • War for the Oaks (Reluctant love between two people from very different worlds....)
• Lois McMaster Bujold
  • Shards of Honor (Cordelia finds an unlikely ally in her captor, the feared Admiral Vorkosigan)
  • Komarr (Miles has been searching for his Lady Vorkosigan for more than a decade- could Ekaterin be her?)
• Madeleine L'Engle
  • The Moon by Night (Vickie is growing up and learning to be a woman on her family vacation)
• Marion Zimmer Bradley
  • Witch Hill (A girl learns about the witchcraft in her history)
• Patricia C. Wrede
  • The Raven Ring (A love triangle surrounds a wild young woman on her first time inside a city)
• Peter David
  • Imzadi (The greatest love story in Star Trek's history- why Will Riker and Deanna Troy fell into love, out of it, and what happened after)
  • Imzadi II (Again, Will and Deanna are out of love- and Deanna is dating Worf. Can Riker let her?)
  • Q-in-Law (The all-powerful Q and the formidable Lwaxanna Troy have finally met and matched wills- and fallen in love)
  • "New Frontiers" (Series containing multiple romances in varying stages of dissaray)
• Robert Heinlein
  • Wow! Romances from a male perspective! Think I'm kidding? Read them and see!
  • Glory Road (A man answers a personal ad and is thrown into an adventure with a beautiful woman)
  • Job: A Comedy of Justice (A preacher has an illicit relationship with a pagan woman as the world ends around them)
  • Time Enough for Love (Lazarus Long has had many wives in his 2000 year life- but there's only one he can never forget)
  • I Will Fear No Evil (A man's brain transplanted into a woman's body discovers that an old friend has become something more)
• Sharon L. Reddy
  • Heroes Need a Captain (Four of the most powerful men in the space frontier fall for the same woman. Can they share her peacefully? Will she consent to being shared?)
  • Pentad (Five men discover that several hundred women have plans for them as the fathers of a new race)
• Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Four Ways to Forgiveness (2 of the 4 novellas in this book are romances on 2 planets where slaves have won a war for their freedom)
• William Goldman
  • The Princess Bride (How Wesley and Buttercup were parted, and how they were reunited despite the fact that he was dead and she was married to the evil prince.)

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