title: Songs of Love and Death (anthology)
text: # Songs of Love and Death (anthology)
  
  Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love is a cross-genre anthology featuring 17 original short stories of romance in science fiction/fantasy settings, edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois and released on November 16, 2010. Suzanne Johnson wrote for Tor.com, "From zombie-infested woods in a postapocalyptic America to faery-haunted rural fields in eighteenth-century England, from the kingdoms of high fantasy to the alien world of a galaxy-spanning empire, these are stories of lovers who must struggle against the forces of magic and fate."
  
  ## Contents
  
  * “Love Hurts” by Jim Butcher (The Dresden Files)
  * “The Marrying Maid” by Jo Beverley
  * “Rooftops” by Carrie Vaughn
  * “Hurt Me” by M.L.N. Hanover
  * “Demon Lover” by Cecelia Holland
  * “The Wayfarer’s Advice” by Melinda M. Snodgrass (Imperials)
  * “Blue Boots” by Robin Hobb
  * “The Thing About Cassandra” by Neil Gaiman
  * “After the Blood” by Marjorie M. Liu
  * “You and You Alone” by Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Legacy)
  * “His Wolf” by Lisa Tuttle
  * “Courting Trouble” by Linnea Sinclair
  * “The Demon Dancer” by Mary Jo Putney
  * “Under/Above the Water” by Tanith Lee
  * “Kashkia” by Peter S. Beagle
  * “Man in the Mirror” by Yasmine Galenorn
  * “A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows” by Diana Gabaldon (Outlander)
  