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** Throughout the series, particularly in the first three books, it is shown that the humans are sexually attracted to the lemurian females due to having similar proportions and a looser sense of modesty than humans. While this largely occurs because there is a lack of human females, the attraction is still noted.

** In the second book a Lemurian [[spoiler:Blas-Ma-Ar, also known as "Blossom"]] is raped by a human Destroyermen.

** In the second book a Lemurian {{Blas-Ma-Ar, also known as "Blossom"}} is raped by a human Destroyermen.

* In ''[[{{Uplift}} The Uplift War]]'' there is a (partially symbolic) marriage between Robert, son of the (human) governor of Garth and Athaclena, the Tymbrimi ambassador's daughter, though they mostly did it to solidify their species' alliance and both expect to find mates of their own species later.
** Also male [[SapientCetaceans neo-dolphins]] have a tendency to hit on human women.

* During ''TheAdventuresOfFoxTayle'', Fox is helped along on his journey escaping the lab where he was created and the FBI by a handful of sympathetic humans, including Wanda and Diana. Nothing too serious happens, though.

* NeilGaiman's ''{{Stardust}}'': Tristran and Yvaine (half-faerie half-human / star, ya rly)

** TheObsideonTrilogy has Idalia (a human) in love with Jarayan (an elf).

** And let's not forget the ''other'' wizard/vampire pairing in the series: [[spoiler:Margaret LeFay and Lord Raith, the parents of Thomas Raith...who's Harry Dresden's older half-brother.]]

** Also male [[SapientCetaceans neo-dolphins]] have a tendency to hit on human women.

* ''PerdidoStreetStation'' by [[{{ptitlen9ir3dhv}} China Miéville's]]: The main character's lover is an insect-woman. Admittedly, she does just have a big insect in place of a head; everything else is human.

** In ''TheCrystalStar'', Han Solo met a female Ghostling, a species that is considered, by humans at least, to be incredibly beatiful and apparently most ghostlings feel the same about humans. The problem is that Ghostlings evolved on a planet with almost no physical hardships or predators and are extremely fragile by human standards. According to Han any relationship between a human and a ghostling inevitably ends with the ghostling's death.

* In Thorne Smith's 1931 novel ''The Night Life of the Gods'', inventor Hunter Hawk falls in love with 900-year-old woodsprite Megaera.

** ''Incarnations of Immortality'' series: human/ghost, human/demoness (three times, one rather {{Squick}}y), human/damned soul. Zane/Luna is an aversion, as they're both human (though he's the current Death).
* Girl falls in love with robot is a key element in IsaacAsimov's ''Robots of Dawn''.

* Happens in the ''{{Animorphs}}'' series with two of the main characters, one of whom is a human stuck in the body of a hawk (he regains the ability to temporarily [[VoluntaryShapeshifting turn back into a human]].

* [[{{Ptitle3tzv6fw4}} Philip José Farmer's]] was famous for writing one of the first erotic stories between a human and an alien in ''The Lovers''... If you can ''really'' call ''[[{{Squick}} that]]'' "erotic."

* Spider Robinson handles interspecies romance quite logically in ''The Blacksmith's Tale'' in his ''[[{{ptitlebga5e439}} Callahan's Place]]'' series.

** The next books have Patience and an Acrocanthosaurus she names Green Knight. He actively courts her, even presenting her with shiny gifts and nuzzling her at length. When Patience taps into her host body's mind she sees that her host had courted ''him'' and pined after him to no avail - he's interested in ''Patience''. Unlike the previous kids, she earnestly falls for him, too, and is devastated when [[spoiler: he dies]], despondent even when back in her human body and proper time. When it turns out that he's somehow [[spoiler: SharingABody with one of the other returned kids]], they immediately strike the relationship back up. GK's feelings leak over into his human host's mind, so somehow all three are okay with this new situation.

**** Actually, werewolves have beast/being status in the wizarding world, so I think it's just as fair to call them a different species as it is to call giants and veelas different species.

* The relationship between Captain Laurence and {{Temeraire}} is, for all intents and purposes, an InterspeciesRomance without the sex. Considering that [[HeterosexualLifePartners Temeraire is the focal point of Laurence's life]], [[HoYay well...]]

* In ''TheFirebringerTrilogy'', what was probably intended as simply a powerful friendship betweem the unicorn princess Lell and the gryphon warrior Illishar seems to be [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean a bit more than that]] at times...

** Lupine and Ludmilla Cake: While they're more-or-less the same thing (werewolves), one's a wolf who turns into a wolf-man during the full moon, and the other is a human that turns into a wolf-woman (they more or less meet in the middle). Somehow, they make the relationship work, despite [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean only having one week-in-four per month in which they are the same bodyshape.]] The secret and beloved dark heart of this meme is that [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean that's very much their affair]], and none of our business... or to put it another way, maybe they are [[HeadTiltinglyKinky happier than you think]].
** There's also pretty heavily implied human/vampire in the form of Lord Vetinari and Lady Margolotta. (Though there is debate on how far it went given some fans' opinion that a guy that finds people playing instruments as a bit overly-physical would view doing [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean it]] as pretty damn gross.)

* In Sharyn [=McCrumb's=] mystery novel, ''If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him,'' Miri Malone, who teaches art at a college and creates art with bathtub toys, hires a lawyer so that she'll be allowed to legally marry a dolphin. The lawsuit never gets anywhere, as she decides on [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean a pre-conjugal visit]] to the dolphin's tank. This proves to be a very bad idea. [[spoiler:Dolphins will voluntarily mate with practically anything. They also mate underwater.]]

* The relationship between Captain Laurence and {{Temeraire}} is, for all intents and purposes, an InterspeciesRomance without the sex. Considering that Temeraire is the focal point of Laurence's life, well...

* In TheWarGods series by DavidWeber there are 5 races of man, Human, elf, dwarf, hafling and Hradani (filling the role of orcs). All of them can interbreed, but many of the resulting children are sterile. However, each race evolved from baseline humanity in different ways. Hradani and dwarf are more or less true evolutions and are biologic changes to how they tap the magic field. (Both live longer at the cost of reduced fertility and ability to do magic or psonics while dwarves get rock shaping skills and Hdrani become bigger and stronger and are more able to use the magic field to supplement their strength). Haflings are pretty much mutants caused by the last wizard war. Elves though were not part of a subrace as such until the original wizard war ended and secondary casters whose powers are innate and didn't require extensive training to unlock were found to be too dangerous to have their power. They agreed to under go a spell to change how their set of genes tap the magic field so that they lose their magic but gain immortality. As such half-elves are non-sterile, live 400 years, and there is an entire nation run by half elves calling themselves the purple lords. If a half elf breeds with an elf or another half elf, the children are half elves, but if they breed with a human their children are just slightly longer lived than most humans. Elf-dwarf is mentioned as a very sad affair. Half dwarves are non sterile and resulting in alot of mixing with the empire of the axe having dwarves with more than a bit of human blood (resulting in folks having most of the dwarven skills but little shaping abilities) and humans that are a bit shorter than normal due to dwarf blood. Human-Hradani hasn't been seen in ages, but Wencit testifies it's very good they are sterile. Like all half humans they have the potential for wizardry or psonics, at the same time they have the Hradani ability to tap the magic field, resulting in a far higher number of powerful wizards being half Hradani. It's hinted that wild wizardy may be connected to the Hradani ability.

** It's also been stated that Nanny Ogg has some dwarfish ancestry, albeit several generations back.

* Two words: Lisanne Norman.

** The same author first gain renown with an award-winning 1993 short story, [[www.kijjohnson.com/fox-magic.html ''Fox Magic'']] about a romance between a {{Kitsune}} and a human, which she later adapted into a novel.