Love and Rockets

Space...the final frontier. Or is it? Many say there's no frontier more forbidding than a romantic relationship between a man and a woman. But what if one's a human, and the other's an alien? Here is an original collection of space opera stories where authors take love (unrequited or not), on a spaceship, space station, or planetary colony, and add enough drama, confusion and mayhem to ensure that the path to true love-or short-term infatuation-is seldom free of obstacles.“SFR—Not Just Science Fiction Research Anymore,” copyright © 2010 by Lois McMaster Bujold“Second Shift,” copyright © 2010 by Brenda Cooper“Gateway Night,” copyright © 2010 by Nina Kiriki Hoffman“The Women Who Ate Stone Squid,” copyright © 2010 by Joseph E. Lake, Jr.“Wanted,” copyright © 2010 by Anita Ensal“An Offer You Couldn’t Refuse,” copyright © 2010 by Sylvia Kelso &Lillian Stewart Carl“In The Night,” copyright © 2010 by Steven H Silver“F Isn’t For Freefall,” copyright © 2010 by Donald J. Bingle“If This Were A Romance,” copyright © 2010 by Shannon Page and Joseph E. Lake, Jr.“The Business of Love,” copyright © 2010 by Kelly Swails“Music In Time,” copyright © 2010 by Dean Wesley Smith“Dance of Life,” copyright © 2010 by Jody Lynn Nye“Old Times’ Sake,” copyright © 2010 by Tim Waggoner“Drinking Games,” copyright © 2010 by Kristine Kathryn Rusch