Someone should totally do this

[weirdquark]

Came across a book published in the 70s with a 70s style cover. Had some figures in yellow lighting on a black background with blue lines going through everything. The book was for the sci-fi collection so I assumed, not looking too closely, that the blue lines were lasers and it was portraying some sort of space battle (two of the figures were sort of crouched battle style) or was a cyber club brawl or something similar.

It was missing the back cover and I read the last page which had two regency romance style proposals in it.

Regency romance IN SPACE people!

Looking more closely at the book, it has something to do with gypsies and the blue lines on the cover probably mean to show the figures having a fight in the rain and are not (sigh) lasers at all. I was very disappointed.

But regency romance in space sounds like it would be awesome.

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[thnidu]

Lois Bujold. Vorkosigan Saga. A Civil Campaign.

DEDICATION:
For Jane, Charlotte, Georgette, and Dorothy— long may they rule.

That Regency romance-ish enough for you?

And in case, somehow, it isn't, and you don't know the book, read this description. It's on the Amazon page, but I think it's from the back cover:

One cunning plan too many?

It's spring in Vorbarr Sultana, and a young person's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love ...money ...bio-genetics ...love ...lack of money ...incompatible planetary sexual mores ...love ...District succession scandals ...the Emperor's wedding ...and, of course, love ...

Lord Miles Vorkosigan, youngest Imperial Auditor to be appointed by the Emperor since the Time of Isolation, has a problem all his new power can't solve: unrequited love for the beautiful Vor widow Ekaterin Vorsoisson. Ekaterin is violently allergic to marriage as a result of her first exposure. But as Miles learned from his late career in galactic covert ops, if a frontal assault won't do, go to subterfuge. He has a cunning plan ...

Lord Mark Vorkosigan has a problem: his love for the sunny Kareen, daughter of Commodore Koudelka, has just become unrequited again. But if all his new money can't solve their dilemma, perhaps a judicious blending of science and entrepreneurial scheming might. He has a cunning plan ...

'It's another winner with all kinds of unexpected adventures ...Georgette Heyer has met her match for intrigue and style! A sprightly conducted romance with twists and turns that could only happen in a Vorkosigan-inspired novel...Boy, can she write!' -Anne McCaffrey.

[weirdquark]

Heh, there is that. I had forgotten that particular bit of the Vorkosigan books is described that way.

Though a story where the plucky heroine and brooding nobleman meet while involved in a laser-filled cyber punk space station club brawl would be epically terrible.

[thnidu]

Probably. But I'll bet there are writers who could make it work. Who would take it as a challenge!