r/ScienceFictionRomance

During a recent Stuff-Your-Kindle day I downloaded {Delivered and Devoured by Lara Roth} and friends, I am now going to embark on reading anything she’s ever written because I am obsessed. I’ll be honest that I almost passed it by because of the cheesy Harlequin-style covers (a personal pet peeve) but yall, the writing is BEAUTIFUL. Style is subjective so YMMV of course, but the best way I can describe it is if Jeanette Winterson wrote steamy alien romance. Spice level is middling in that it’s open door but more poetic than explicit, which I happen to love. And there are sooo many books!! Quick reads but very satisfying.

I’ve noticed that sometimes I love the sci-fi setting but don’t really connect with the romance, or I enjoy the couple but the world feels like background decoration.

What book did both really well for you?

I’m looking for something with strong chemistry, interesting characters, and a sci-fi world that actually matters to the story. Bonus if the relationship develops slowly instead of feeling instant.

I’m close to completing a sci-fi romance that’s focused on an alien contact plot. It leans more heavily into the sci-fi and is pretty low spice compared to my contemporary works (this is my 10th book but I’m new to sci-fi), but is open door.

I’ve read alien romance canon and have feelings about it, and one of those feelings was that I wanted harder plot, more action, and less smut for most of them. I like smut but I just felt like all the really interesting aspects of world building were underdeveloped. So I went a different direction.

Now I’m second-guessing and I’d like some feedback from people who enjoy this sub-genre on what spice levels are expected and preferred. If I’m under-heated, I may need to add some more in.

Any and all thoughts on this would be appreciated.

ETA: I’m reading everyone’s comments and just wanted to say you all are awesome for responding. Super helpful and also reaffirming.

Looking for a good new scifi romance book. I'm not looking for alien romances. Really enjoyed Neon Flux by Ava Thorne. She will be the next best author in dark SciFi romance! I can't find anything else like it, but looking for suggestions. Love cyberpunk, future world stuff. Some dystopian is ok, but haven't found one I really liked.

Hello there community.

I am looking for a few books today that relate to robots who slowly become more human and even fall in love with their partner. It would be better if the robot would be going against its own program and interacting with the human is what is making it slowly develop codes that are romancing the human.

- Female human preference, robot depiction as male

- Detroit Becoming Human idea

-It can be a program that gains a human body to better "help" it's partner. That is fine.

- Open Door spice or above

- No AI books. I understand this is a robot story but I prefer books to be written by a human. After all their becoming human themselves.

Thank you for reading and any recommendations. Make sure to please post links. 😉👍 Happy day.

Not going to lie, I don't remember much and I know half of these books are all the same (coz I have read a lot of them hehehe)

Women were kidnapped or in some other way got to their planet. If I remember well they might have had some women of their own but very few. They have a "this is my mate" situation. The women first tried to stay in a closed room especially since they got suspicious that women who got taken away by their mates came back fully on board with the aliens. They were big hunky guys who fight as a culture I think. And they might have had horns and the horns were sensitive? It was open door for sure.

It is not the Latharian series for sure.

Thank you in advance!

Sweet, strong but a little self conscious, awkward but endearing. Total golden retriever type

Fun short story: I play (or well, used to play) this sci-fi romance app game and they were releasing a handsome, muscular werewolf man chairman scientist to romance until a smear campaign consisting of elementary aged children and an army of bots escalated their hatred of him to local government regulators with lies and slander and got him removed from the game and broke my heart into a thousand little pieces.

Anyway.

I'm looking for healing with something like The Clecanian or IPB but specifically with wolf shifters or werewolves. No reverse harem. Thanks!

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Hey :) I really enjoyed the world building in this series, highlights are Faraway and the 3 stories in Fragile Beings, so I was wondering if anyone had any similar recs?
I do like me some smut so it’s encouraged but I’m getting sick of the same old thing. I’d like another world to lose myself in.
Also, adults would be great lol over 25 would be amazing.
Thank you!

Hello! Can you help me remember the title or author of this book?

The parts I remember: the opening scene has the FMC in a shady port away from her ship and crewmates. She tries to save a little alien (who looks like a cabbage, I think—not a main character) from a pack of bully aliens. When they’re about to get overwhelmed, the MMC barges in and defeats all the bully aliens. He later arranges things so he and the FMC spend time together so she can decide if she likes him. MMC is from a warrior alien race, but they’re genetically switched to be less bloodthirsty around their mates.

Thank you so much! It’s driving me wild that I can’t find it again!

{Alien Warrior Unleashed by Ava Ross}

Forced to compete in a deadly game, a tortured alien hero will do everything to protect his fated mate.

As a child, I was stolen by the lord of my planet’s invaders. He brought me to the chamber, where he held others he’d also taken. Through the years, me and my new brothers were twisted into hardened beasts, each with a unique ability that shouldn’t exist outside of myth. We’re monsters. Any female who gazes upon us will run.

Now we’ve been entered into the Galaxy Games. Each landscape contains a series of deadly pitfalls, shifting goalposts, and an elusive final destination. It’s my chance to break free.

But I’m paired with a delectable Earth female who makes me see color for the very first time, proving she’s my fated mate.

I’ll finish this Game. I’ll free my brothers. And I’ll claim the Earthling female as my prize.

Alien Warrior Unleashed is book 1 of the Galaxy Games Series. Each book features a different, tortured alien hero who’s desperate to find—and protect—his fated mate.