George R.R. Martin announces that he and co-editor Gardner Dozois have delivered Songs of Love and Death: Tales of Star-Crossed Love to their editor at Pocket Books.
Martin writes “Songs of Love and Death is another of our crossgenre anthologies, this one featuring stories that blend fantasy, science fiction, and romance. (I hear you jeering. Pfui. Those of you who know my work only from A Song of Ice and Fire may not be aware that I was once considered the most romantic science fiction writer of the ’70s, back when I was doing my Thousand Worlds stuff).”
The table of contents for this volume includes:
“Love Hurts” by Jim Butcher
“The Marrying Maid” by Jo Beverly
“Rooftops” by Carrie Vaughn
“Hurt Me” by M.L.N. Hanover
“Demon Lover” by Cecelia Holland
“The Wayfarer’s Advice” by Melinda M. Snodgrass
“Blue Boots” by Robin Hobb
“The Thing About Cassandra” by Neil Gaiman
“After the Blood” by Marjorie M. Liu
“You and You Alone” by Jacqueline Carey
“His Wolf” by Lisa Tuttle
“Courting Trouble” by Linnea Sinclair
“The Demon Dancer” by Mary Jo Putney
“Under/Above the Water” by Tanith Lee
“Kashkia” by Peter S. Beagle
“Man in the Mirror” by Yasmine Galenorn
“A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows” by Diana Gabaldon
Jim Butcher’s story is set in his Harry Dresden universe; Jacqueline Carey “tells a long-awaited tale from her Kushiel series”; Diana Gabaldon’s “ties into her immensely popular Outlander series”; and Melinda Snodgrass’s is from her Imperials space opera series.”