07.25: Sci-Fi Romance: There's No Book Banning in Space

Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

Fated Mates

Society & Culture, Documentary, Books, Arts

4.9 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Maybe you're rooting for the asteroid, but you gotta have a plan! To help, this week, we're keeping track of what romance is looking like off-planet--it's Romance! In! Space! (Part 2, but the first episode we did was six years ago, so we figured it's time.) Headphones in, loves, this one covers space scavengers, aliens, anatomy, crash landings, abductions, talking lions and people in Space Army (what happens in Space Army stays there, unless it's here).

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Our next read along is Julie Anne Long's What I Did For a Duke, available in print, ebook, and audio at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple Books or wherever you get your books.

The Books

Fiasco and Chaos by Constance Fay
Full Speed to a Crash Landing and How to Steal a Galaxy by Beth Revis
Space Deputy by Jenny Schwartz
I Got Abducted By Aliens and Now I’m Trapped in a Rom-Com by Kimberly Lemming
Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell
Heart Song by Heather Guerre
Ruling Sikthand by Victoria Aveline
Stranded by Heather Fox
Raw Desires by Cynthia Sax
Cathian by Laurann Dohner
Space Army Recruits by Kinley Grey
The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

The Notes

Bad news: the asteroid can’t save us, so we’ll just have to save ourselves.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I wish I was in space.
0:05.0	I was just going to say that.
0:07.5	Jen,
0:08.5	in space.
0:11.6	Like,
0:12.1	that's the part where like,
0:13.2	I mean,
0:13.6	okay,
0:13.8	listen,
0:14.2	I know it's all gallows humor,
0:15.8	but,
0:16.0	you know,
0:16.3	there's like this asteroid
0:17.7	they've been keeping an eye on.
0:18.9	Yeah,
0:19.2	it's getting closer and more likely to hit us.
0:22.2	Everyone's like, yes. Or, you know, like, what if we're rooting for the asteroid? We're rooting for
0:27.1	the asteroid now. Just or like, or it's like I think about all of the movies where it's like,
0:33.2	you know, we fight off a band of evil aliens who want to come. Right. We send Ben Affleck and Bruce Willis to blow up an asteroid.
0:40.8	Or, you know, Bill Pullman.
0:42.3	Don't waste your time.
0:43.0	Yeah, just, I think they, we be, anybody could be better off.
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