Irresistible Forces

There is a staff review of this book as well

Irresistible Forces is an Alternate Reality Romance anthology comprised of stories from several noted SF and Romance authors.

Winterfair Gifts by Lois McMaster Bujold features characters from her Miles Vorkosigan saga, and involves two bodyguards who fall in love during the celebration of Miles’s wedding. In Mary Jo Putney’s The Alchemical Marriage, a couple with magical powers fall in love as they help defeat the Spanish Armada. The Stained Glass Heart by Catherine Asaro is set in another world where a hero must decide whether to go through with an arranged marriage that will benefit his family and the empire, or marry for true love. Deb Stover’s Skin Deep features a very macho lawyer who dies and comes back in a woman’s body – so that he can reunite his widow with her true love. In Jo Beverley’s The Trouble with Heroes, a hero with magical healing powers must participate in a deadly war to save a planet colonized by Earth. And Robin and Marian help set the world to rights by returning a magical object to its proper place in Jennifer Roberson’s Shadows in the Wood.

Blythe:   Linda, Irresistible Forces is different from anything else we’ve discussed previously. It’s a anthology, and something of a Romance/SF hybrid, with six stories. Let’s discuss them each in turn, then compare them.