This clever anthology includes something for everyone. In Second Shift, a woman falls in love with a space explorer she has never met. She spends every evening keeping him company through the computer, but can that be enough for them both?

Gateway Night tells of a space station that houses four different races. The descriptive narration offers a fantastic telling of the various alien gathering areas, as well as the races that live there.

Wanted is a great love story about a woman that is stuck in a broken-down space shuttle and the miner who saves her. This is one of the more typical romances in the collection.

My favorite story in the anthology was The Business of Love. It is the story of a young man whose girlfriend is considering what college to attend. His mother has big plans for him, ones that don't involve the young woman, and he must decide what to do with his future.

All the stories in the anthology vary in the amount of romance in the plot. Some of them revolve around main characters that are attracted to each other and heading towards a relationship, while others deal more with the hardships and novelties of living in space and have only a brief mention of or a loose tie to the theme of love and romance. Since most of the authors are science fiction writers, that is the genre that seems to drive the majority of stories. If you are a die-hard romance fan, LOVE AND ROCKETS may not offer enough of the traditional boy-meets-girl and they fall in love storyline that you are accustomed to. However, fans of science fiction that are looking for a little bit of intergalactic love will not be disappointed by this unique collection of stories.

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