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InterspeciesRomance in {{Literature}}.
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** For example, Feyre with Tamlin at first, before she becomes Fae.

** For example, Feyre with Tamlin, before she becomes Fae.

** Casanunda will romance ([[AnythingThatMoves or at least boff]]) any female who'll hold still long enough, pretty much regardless of species.

* ''Metaplanetary'' by Tony Daniels (not to be confused with ''Metaplanetary'' by S. P. Meeks) pairs a human with an "emancipated" software program. Their kids exist partially in the "real" world and partially in cyberspace simultaneously, and it's mentioned offhandedly that their baby talk was white noise. (There's a {{Handwave}} about radiation--just go with it.) The intelligent ferret also has a powerful sex drive, which turns towards humans when her original body dies and she [[EmergencyTransformation winds up]] SharingABody with an ArtificialHuman, but she's after AnythingThatMoves, [[DoYouWantToCopulate in a rather blunt fashion]]. (Yes, this book is ''weird''.)

* Happens in Amelia Atwater-Rhodes' novels, particularly in ''Hawksong'', the first novel of her ''Literature/KieshaRa'' series. To prevent war, an Avian (bird shapeshifter) princess and a Serpiente (snake) prince consent to a political marriage to end their generations-long war, but find themselves falling in love. Their child, a wyvern who represents both her parents' shapeshifting powers, in turn [[spoiler: chooses neither an avian nor a serpiente mate, but a wolf woman. This is a good thing as choosing any male mate would lead to her combined powers manifesting very strongly and dangerously in any child she bears]].

** ''[[https://sofawolf.com/products/sixes-wild-manifest-destiny?sku Sixes Wild]]'' has the hare calling herself "Six Shooter" falling for the flying fox sheriff Jordan Blake. Though Blake's echolocation suggests some insectivore ancestry.
** In ''Literature/{{Windfall}}'' Siberian Husky Max Saber and otter Kylie Bevy dance around their feelings for each other for half the book before hooking up. And a couple minor characters have a bunny and cat as parents.

* Subverted in the short story "And I Woke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side" by James Tiptree -- humans are driven to have sex with the new and unusual, but in the end receive nothing from the experience except abuse and abandonment.

* ''Literature/TheSandmanTheDreamHutners'': The kitsune heroine falls in love with a human man. Fox Morpheus cautions her that these things don't end well.

* There's a lot of this in the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' books, especially concerning Bella.
*** We also have a multiple-case scenario here, if you remember that:
*** 1) Edward is (up to some point) a living corpse (making Bella suffer from a severe case of Necrophilia in the 4th book and there after)
*** 2) Edward is 117 years old (making him 100 years older than Bella, who is a 17 year old girl at least on the first 3 books).
** Though by the end of the series, [[spoiler: Bella is a vampire too, so this no longer applies to her and Edward]]. But then [[StrangledByTheRedString we're told]] [[spoiler: that there's going to be a future romance between their [[HalfHumanHybrid half-vampire, half-human daughter]] and shapeshifter-previously-thought-to-be-werewolf Jacob]].

** Finally an example that [[BizarreSexualDimorphism technically isn't Interspecies]], but is mostly treated that way in-Universe due to lack of Dracobiology classes: [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Dragons are exclusively male]]. They mate (once every 5000 years) with Kraken, meeting at a large whirlpool. After competing for rights, the Dragons throw themselves into the waiting embrace of a Kraken appearing in the whirlpool, going in order from strongest to weakest. The Dragon and Kraken then mate underwater, sometimes resulting in the [[DeathBySex drowning of the Dragon]]. The offspring are sea serpents which live several thousand years before a metamorphosis into a Dragon or Kraken depending on gender. Most characters have no clue that the three monsters are the same species.

** There are several known cases of romances between elves and humans, elves and half-elves, and half-elves and humans: Aegnor/Andreth (unhappy StarCrossedLovers), Lúthien/Beren (happily married), Nimloth/Dior (happily married), Finduilas/Túrin (unrequited), Idril/Tuor (happily married), Elros/his unidentified human wife (happily married), Mithrellas/Imrazôr (married until she walked out), their son Galador/his human wife (married), Celebrían/Elrond (happily married), and their daughter Arwen/Aragorn (happily married)

* Played in an unusual fashion in ''Franchise/TheDarkTower'', where Roland has sex with a [[HornyDevils succubus]] in order to get information from it. In a later novel, the same succubus, now in male form, rapes Susannah and impregnates her with Roland's sperm. When the resulting child is born, it's a cannibalistic human-spider hybrid. This is exactly how medieval folklore said [[HornyDevils succubi/incubi]] worked. That a demon could never create true sperm or truly mate with a human, so demon children were the result of a succubus stealing a man's seed, turning into an incubus and raping a woman. Succubi/incubi themselves have no "real" gender, being spirits. Also, Rhea and her snake...

** Particularly {{Squick}}-inducing pairings are hinted at but not shown explicitly in ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'', where any two creatures of opposite gender who drink at a "love spring" will fall in lust and (successfully) interbreed. This is the origin of most of the sentient species in the series including harpies (human/vulture), centaurs, etc. We also have a story where an ogre/human hybrid falls in love with a human/nymph crossbreed, the child of a centaur/hippogryph (eagle/horse hybrid) and all manner of others.

** In his ''Literature/ApprenticeAdept'' novels, we are "treated" to human/unicorn (the unicorns can shapeshift to human), human/robot, human/werewolf, human/vampire, and human/alien relationships, just to name a few.

* ''Metaplanetary'' by Tony Daniels (not to be confused with ''Metaplanetary'' by S. P. Meeks) pairs a human with an "emancipated" software program. Their kids exist partially in the "real" world and partially in cyberspace simultaneously, and it's mentioned offhandedly that their baby talk was white noise. (There's a {{Handwave}} about [[ILoveNuclearPower radiation]]--just go with it.) The intelligent ferret also has a powerful sex drive, which turns towards humans when her original body dies and she [[EmergencyTransformation winds up]] SharingABody with an ArtificialHuman, but she's after AnythingThatMoves, [[DoYouWantToCopulate in a rather blunt fashion]]. (Yes, this book is ''weird''.)

* The ''Literature/MoreauSeries'' provides several examples of romances between various types of anthropomorphic 'Moreaus', as well as one between a moreau and a human. In the ''Literature/{{Apotheosis}}'' series, which takes place centuries later in the [[Literature/TerranConfederacy same universe]], Nickolai Rajastan is maimed and exiled for having an affair with a panthress, as interspecies relationships are forbidden by the religion of St Rajastan, his ancestor.

* Different viewpoints on this is something of a theme in ''Literature/TheLongWayToASmallAngryPlanet''. Examples include Human Rosemary and Aandrisk Sissix, and Human Ashby and Aeluon Pei.

* The relationship between Jago and Bren in the ''Literature/{{Foreigner}}'' series counts as this. Because of the social, emotional and psychological differences between the Atevi aliens and humans you can't really call it a romance, but they make sure that all emotional and physical needs are met in their relationship. Besides that, one of the main themes in the series is the difference in psychology and emotional wiring between the two species, and the slow build of their relationship is a very sweet in-universe example of how difficult the interface between the two species can be.

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

** A short passage in ''Literature/TheHobbit'' suggests that someone in the Took family tree had married into a "fairy" or elven family, which is given as a possible reason for certain hobbits being far more adventurous than the majority. But this is almost certainly a leftover artifact from before ''The Hobbit'' was dragged into the Middle-earth stories, in which "fairy" means nothing and such a legend would be far more than an inconsequential factoid.