This one's an alternative-future-history SF story and it's more than a little downbeat and way grim, with no sex -- so if you're after a stroke story, this isn't it. For any of you that've read S. M. Stirling's Draka series, that was partly an inspiration for this, as was Jerry Pournelle's "Future History" to some extent. George Robert Elford's "Devil's Guard" was also something of an inspiration, as were a few books on the Spanish Civil War.
Empathics (1) It's late 21st century but some things don't change too much. Laura and Amanda are two postgraduate students who share a room. Amanda is irresistibly atracted to Laura, who is too socially oblivious to realise what is going on. This is the start of their relationship, but by no means the end, as their lives will remain entwined.
A man develops an unusual side effect to an antidepressant: He can read minds. He uses his gift to earn money and to fight crime, but mostly he uses it to locate and pursue a variety of sexual opportunities. His mind-reading gift introduces some subtlety to the encounters.
Set within the Star Wars universe just prior to Return of the Jedi. Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker are waiting at Ben Kenobi's old home on Tatooine for the call to rescue Han Solo. Lonely, Leia's fantasies lead to a night of unexpected passion with the young Jedi.
Humanity faces extinction from a mysterious and massive fertility problem. The key to babies is a lot of men doing a woman during her brief fertile period. Women have to get it from 40 different guys in the middle of the month. And the guys have to save their seed for just that occasion.