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Colter only has eight minutes for each round of the simulation after which time resets and he has to re-meet her and everyone on board. Though they only get to bond over a series of eight minute conversations, Colter ends up falling for Christina while trying to save her life. In the movie Chow Tony Chiu-Wai Leung , a former journalist, is writing a novel about the future but is preoccupied with his past, specifically, the dissolution of a relationship with a woman he thought was the love of his life, Su Li-zhen from In The Mood for Love.
While writing his story he stays in room of the Hotel Oriental where he embarks on a series of brief but meaningful love affairs with different women, one of whom is also named Su Li-zhen. After he sets his sights on a woman named Mary Rachel McAdams he has to find a balance between his responsibly not to abuse his gift and his desire to make everything go right in his relationship.
His attempts to alter the time-space continuum are clumsy so Tim is forced to meet and re-meet Mary a number of times but he finds a way to woo her in almost every timeline. Every so often from atop his lonely tower above the town he constructs ice sculptures of her and the shavings make their way to the town where they appear as snow for her to dance in.
One day Wall-E encounters a robotic probe named EVE Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator with which it becomes so enamored it follows EVE to its point of origin, the spaceship housing all the displaced humans. Wall-E and EVE have two things in common, they have both somehow gained sentience which allows them to feel things for each other , and they both care about returning humanity to Earth.
The story of how the two robots come together neatly inverts a trope of the sci-fi genre; in this story robots save the world instead of ending it. Octavia Marie Avgeropoulos is part of a group of space dwellers sent to a post-apocalyptic Earth on an exploratory mission to see if the land is survivable. While exploring her new world she injures herself and Lincoln Ricky Whittle , a native resident of the Earth known as a grounder, comes to her aid. The match works because Luke is geared toward helping other people, often sacrificing his own needs to do so and Claire, a compassionate nurse with a hero complex of her own, has the exact personality needed to take care of the man who takes care of everyone.
In this universe, single men and women are forced to pair off into couples or, if they fail to connect with someone, are turned into animals. They spark a friendship initially based on survival, sharing their spoils from hunting in the woods and keeping each other company while evading capture. This alliance eventually develops a romantic component and the two embark on a very unusual relationship on the fringes of society. While it may seem like a doomed union—Uhura Zoe Saldana is an empathy-driven human and Spock Zachary Quinto is her half Vulcan former instructor known to privilege logic over emotion—but aboard the USS Enterprise they make a world of sense.
This coupling is one of the biggest changes the film reboot of the beloved Star Trek franchise introduced but it was a welcome storyline to most who saw the beginnings of that spark in Star Trek: One thing is clear: Skip to main content. The 26 greatest romances in science fiction's last two decades. Simon Bellamy and Alisha Daniels, Misfits.
Kris and Jeff, Upstream Color. Louise Banks and Ian Donnelly, Arrival. Darius and Kenneth, Safety Not Guaranteed. Peter Bishop and Olivia Dunham, Fringe. Bernard Nadler and Rose Nadler, Lost. Chow Mo-wan and the women of the Hotel Oriental, Tim and Mary, About Time. Edward and Kim, Edward Scissorhands. Octavia Blake and Lincoln, The But she doesn't return to her normal life.
She begins to spend time with a friendly alien named Kael, and although terrified of his species, she finds it in her heart to care for him. When his world declares war on hers, she is torn between defending her planet and the alien she has come to love.
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When she stepped out of the Pueblo Caliente courthouse, her mind was consumed with all the work she had to catch up on. However, her attention was diverted by a couple that was on the brink of an ugly argument. But ugly didn't even begin to cover it when the "man" suddenly transformed into a huge, winged monster and went on a deadly killing rampage.
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Looking back, Kitty should have reacted like those around her, running and screaming, but she did the opposite. She acted to take down the alien before she was approached by a man named Jeff Martini who was with "the agency". He insisted he lead her to his boss in a nearby limo, thus beginning Kitty's life among the aliens. The Two Towers takes place one hundred and fifty years after the earth was ravaged by war, and only the two self-sustaining towers built by OmniLab continue to offer a safe haven for those who paid the hefty price to assure their family's survival.
But on the surface, there are others who have survived over the years struggling to barter and trade artifacts found within the ruins of the crumbling cities in exchange for critical supplies. When Kayla, a ruin rat skilled in computer hacking and scavenging, discovers a strange artifact known as The Aurelia Data Cube, she finds herself inadvertently caught up in a series of events that threatens the lives of the mysterious and elusive people within OmniLab.
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Carl, an unorthodox negotiator with a head for business, is determined to eradicate the corruption amongst his OmniLab brethren and has no qualms about using Kayla to do it. Unfortunately, he wasn't counting on the vastness of the corruption or his own feelings for the headstrong woman who turns his life upside down. Joe Haldeman gave us a science fiction classic where a woman waits for her lover to return from war in The Forever War , even though the physics of space travel means she must wait for centuries.
Deep in space, humans discover the fearsome Taurans after a transport ship is destroyed. To combat the threat, humanity sends in the United Nations Exploratory Force—a highly trained unit built for revenge. Conscripted into the service, physics student William Mandella fights for his planet against the alien force light years away.
However, because of the relative passage of time when one travels at incredibly high speed, the Earth he returns to after his two-year experience has progressed decades and is foreign to him in disturbing ways. Not only is this a love story, but is one of the best sci-fi military books ever written, perfectly capturing the alienation that servicemen and women experience even now upon returning home from battle. In Distress is a dystopian science fiction love story that takes place after the Great Destruction decimated the world and science is the new god.
Geneticists rule, instituting a DNA-based caste system in their effort to restore the human genome. A tragic accident has left him crippled, awaiting death. Just before his time is up, Malcolm, an enigmatic Alpha with two differently colored eyes, sweeps in and buys him. Will becomes part of a family of freaks—other damaged Zeds who should be dead. Morning Glory takes readers on an emotional rollercoaster of love, betrayal, war and trials, but Will and Elly finally get their happy ever after. In the aptly named town of Marrying Stone, Ark. Find a husband by Christmas, or they'll find one for her.
The last thing she expects is to fall for farmhand Jess Best, a good man who's been written off by the town because he doesn't think quite as fast as they do. Ruth Berger, daughter of a Jewish professor, was meant to escape Vienna, but her plans went awry. As the Nazis march on the city, her father's colleague Quinton Somerville decides to rescue her with a quick marriage of convenience — he'll sweep her away to England, and they'll get a quick annulment.
But neither Quin nor Ruth counted on falling in love. Buttoned-up widow Martha Russell is desperate. If she doesn't produce evidence of an heir soon, her late husband's cruel family will seize the estate she loves. There's only one solution, obviously: She offers to pay her rakish neighbor Theophilus Mirkwood for a month of assignations. And Mirkwood is determined that Martha will get her money's worth. Lady Jane Cummings is finally out of mourning for her mother, but her father is showing signs of dementia, and her brother has only just returned from the Continent, where he escaped the responsibilities Jane has had to shoulder.
Jane needs a distraction, and it arrives in the form of reclusive neighbor Byrne Worth — who has mysterious ties to a highwayman who's been plaguing the area. Notorious wastrel Reggie Davenport is only good for gambling and drinking — until a relative offers him a second chance in the form of a manor house, complete with secretive estate manager Alys Weston. Romance ensues, but Alys' past and Reggie's alcoholism prove to be formidable obstacles to overcome.
Rector's daughter Drusilla Delaney becomes a companion to the spoiled, arrogant Lavinia Framling. But which will prove more dangerous to her — a supposedly cursed peacock feather fan, or Lavinia's brooding brother Fabian? Blurbed by Charles Dickens himself, North and South features one of the most memorable heroines in Victorian literature: Margaret Hale, who conducts a stormy romance with industrialist John Thornton while clashing with him over her quest to improve the lives of the workers in their gritty Northern mill town.
A resonant mix of romance and social concern. An epic tale of forbidden love during the British Raj. British botanist's son Ashton Pelham-Martyn is orphaned in India and raised to believe he's an Indian boy named Ashok. Anjuli is a neglected princess, condemned first to an unwanted marriage and then to suttee when her husband dies — but happiness beckons for Ash and Anjuli in the "far pavilions" of the Himalayas, away from the prejudices that have kept them apart.
Jane Austen's most famous work was one of your favorite picks second only to the Outlander series. So much has been said about Elizabeth and Darcy that now their place in the romance canon goes without saying — we'll just leave you with the mental image of Colin Firth diving into that lake. A poor, mistreated heroine, a dour, misunderstood hero, and a mad wife locked in the attic — if that's not romance, we don't know what is! Reader, she did indeed marry him, and they lived happily ever after.
We couldn't have a romance list without Georgette Heyer, the venerable grandmother of the genre. And readers agreed, giving the nod to Venetia, her charming novel about a sheltered Regency beauty who sees the best in a notorious society rake and then convinces her family to approve the match.
Rainbow Rowell's story of two misfit kids who fall in love over mixtapes and comic books in s Omaha, Neb. While the ending is slightly ambiguous, we choose to believe Eleanor and Park got their happily ever after. We love them too much not to! Anna is looking forward to her senior year in Atlanta, Ga.
But then her father decides to send her off to boarding school in Paris.
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A slight exception to our happily-ever-after rule, the romance in the Queen's Thief series gets off to a rocky start in the first book. But stick around for the next few volumes in this story of a master thief who steals the heart of a queen, and then must face the reality of being king. High school golden girl Brittany Ellis finds her life turned upside down when she walks into her senior chemistry class and ends up partnered with tough guy Alex Fuentes, a gang member who longs to leave the life and go to college.
Things start to spark when Alex impulsively takes a bet that he can get Brittany into bed. Singer and guitarist Alegria Montero wants to make it big, and she's hoping that a shot on a reality show will help her leave behind her boring life of playing family parties. But when she makes it to the finals of a competition for the "next Latin superstar," she has to deal with the whirlwind of publicity, professional jealousy and a budding romance with NYU production major Jaime Lozano. If you ever got annoyed that Lois Lane couldn't figure out Superman's secret identity, try Pamela Clare's I-Team books, featuring tough-minded investigative reporters who find love while digging up dirt on everything from environmental hazards to al-Qaida kidnappings.
Nora Roberts makes her second appearance on the list writing as J. Robb with the long-running romantic suspense series, In Death. After a long debate, we named the Nora Roberts Rule after her: While many great writers were nominated, only Roberts is legendary enough to show up twice! In this classic gothic suspense story, governess Linda Martin arrives at a mysterious French chateau to take care of the 9-year-old master of the house and discovers a sinister uncle, a dashing, sardonic cousin, and a possible plot against the life of her young charge.
The ruling Psy have awesome mental powers, but no ability to feel emotions. They punish any sign of desire, and they're on the brink of war with the shape-shifting Changelings. The action begins with one Psy desperately trying to conceal evidence of her feelings and the Changeling who sees her as the key to solving a murderous mystery. Steampunk is more than just a fashion statement in Meljean Brook's Iron Seas books, set in an alternate world where the Mongols conquered Europe with the aid of fantastical machinery.
Dive in with the first book, The Iron Duke, about a military hero who falls for a police inspector when she comes to investigate a dead body dropped — via dirigible — at his doorstep. Human technological progress has triggered a magical apocalypse, and mercenary Kate Daniels lives in the wreckage. She relies on her skills with a sword to protect her from enemies who want the magic in her blood — enemies who kill her guardian and throw her into the path of shape-shifter Curran, Lord of the Free Beasts.
Poor Prince Charming is cursed: Every woman who looks at him is instantly enslaved by love. And poor Ember turns to the dark arts in order to resist the prince's pull — but can he resist her? Bettie Sharpe reworks the story of Cinderella with, as she puts it, "sex, violence and naughty words.
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Jemisin's tale of human women caught up in divine disputes is one of the best fantasy series of recent years, and also one of the most stirring romances: It's packed with gods and lovers whose bonds shape their world — and the worlds to come. Often described as "a Regency romance in space," A Civil Campaign stars Lois McMaster Bujold's memorable hero Miles Vorkosigan and his clone brother Mark as they scheme for the hearts of the women they love and try to keep Mark's nonromantic scheme to engineer food-producing bugs from getting out of control. In the fallen utopia of Samaria, an angel and a slave girl are thrown together in a divinely arranged marriage that proves anything but divine.
Can Gabriel and Rachel overcome their differences in time to perform the holy rite that might save their planet? There are probably more sensible books by the great Johanna Lindsey — she's better known for the pirate yarn Gentle Rogue — but none so outlandishly fun as this tale of a space-faring security officer who lands on a planet of giant leather-trousered barbarian warriors and winds up claimed by the biggest brute of them all.
Charley Davidson is a part-time private investigator and a full-time Grim Reaper, meaning she sees dead people and tries to guide them into the afterlife and occasionally hunt down the people who left them dead. As if that weren't complicated enough, she gets caught up in a devilishly hot romance with the actual son of Satan — a relationship that only gets more intense as the series progresses. The Black Dagger Brotherhood is a band of entertainingly named Rhage, Phury, Tohrment and highly trained vampire warriors, brothers who protect their kind from vampire slayers when they're not falling for very special women.
Ward has extended the series to include relatives and friends of the original brothers, but we recommend starting at the beginning with Dark Lover, the tale of vampire king Wrath. In Kresley Cole's world, there are hundreds of paranormal races living secretly alongside humans. But every years, war breaks out — and that time is now.
Vampires and Valkyries, demons and sorceresses spark and court against a backdrop of supernatural battle in these award-winning paranormal romances. When MacKayla Lane's sister is murdered, a single clue leads her into the dangerous world of the Fae and an equally dangerous attraction to two men: Novelist Carrie McClelland hopes to turn an obscure historical battle into a best-seller. But when Carrie discovers a strange connection to the events she's writing about, her novel — about a young Scotswoman battling English spies while falling for a dashing soldier with a price on his head — turns out to be more truth than fiction.
Anna never knew werewolves existed until she became one herself, and not just any old werewolf. Anna is neither an Alpha nor a submissive but an Omega wolf, the rarest of weres, destined to bring peace to warring wolves and love to one of the country's most powerful packs. Damali Richards is a popular spoken-word artist and producer.
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