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Human Only Sci Fi Romance: No Aliens on This List
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If alien mate romance is not your palate, this preset keeps only the books we classify as having a human-only cast, and holds back anything unstated so you can vet it.
Why human-only space opera is its own kind of story is covered on the no aliens, human only page; the filtered list lives here.
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Sourced sci fi romance books; we publish The Starfall Accord, marked Ours, and it uses the same filters as the rest.
6 matches, 12 more with unstated details
Broken DoveHeat not statedHuman only
Heat: not stated by the publisher.
Del Rey (Penguin Random House)
The sequel to Silver Elite: a double agent, a resistance uprising, and a war between two human factions, per the publisher's page.
Note: Planet bound dystopian science fiction rather than spaceship space opera.
Defy the StarsClosed doorHuman only
Heat: closed door.
This is our editorial estimate, not a publisher statement.
Little, Brown's own listing states no door label.
A devout human soldier and an enemy android forced to travel together across an interstellar war, a young adult story with a believable, gradual fall.
Note: No aliens. The leads are a human and an android, per the roundup.
- Enemies to lovers
- Slow burn
- Forced proximity
Polaris RisingOpen doorHuman only
Heat: open door, moderate heat.
This is our editorial estimate, not a publisher statement.
Harper Voyager's own listing states no door label.
A runaway heiress locked up with a notorious fugitive she has to strike a deal with, captor and captive antagonism that slowly turns.
- Enemies to lovers
- Forced proximity
- Found family
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Every book on this shelf
- Broken Dove by Dani Francis
- Defy the Stars by Claudia Gray
- Polaris Rising by Jessie Mihalik
- Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold
- The Starfall Accord by Sera Voss (Ours)
- Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell
- All We Have Is Time by Amy Tordoff
- At Star's End by Anna Hackett
- Fortune's Pawn by Rachel Bach
- Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
- Hell's Heart by Alexis Hall
- Moss'd in Space by Rebecca Thorne
- Quicksilver by Callie Hart
- Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin
- The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
- The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
- The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent
- This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Ours is on this shelf on the same filters as everything else, and you can read the full description, the format, and the frequently asked questions for Sera Voss's debut.
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Some entries are sourced from publicly available publisher, author, or retailer listings, and each one says which.
Publishers rarely state a door label at all, so where we give a heat level and no listing does, it is our editorial estimate and is labelled as one.
Where a heat level is not stated anywhere, the book is marked accordingly.
None of it comes from our own reading.
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Yes.
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Is The Starfall Accord included in the picker?
Yes.
The Starfall Accord is included and marked Ours because we publish it.
It uses the same trope, heat, and aliens filters as every other book, so it only appears when it matches what you picked.
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