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List compiled by Mary Anne Mohanraj
Note from Patterner:
I have removed all the explicit terms from this list, replacing them with <...>, however, it *is* a list about alternate sexuality and does mention sex. You can get the unedited list at: http://sflovers.rutgers.edu/archive/bibliographies/alternate-sexuality.txt
This file was reference material for the O*W*C chat on 01/23/97, about Alternate Sexuality in SF.
Alternative Sexualities in Fantasy and SF Booklist
If you send additional listings, please try to include:
- notation on genre (F/SF/etc)
- brief explanation of why the text is appropriate
- other books by the author
- comments on content or quality (short, please)
NOTE: Most but not all renderings of alternate sexualities in these texts are positive. Not
all the books listed are fantasy/sf, though the majority are.
Many, many thanks...I'm sorry I can't thank you all personally. I'll keep posting updated
lists every once in a while.
- Mary Anne (moh2@rainbow.uchicago.edu)
The full list is available at: http://www.iam.com/maryanne/balist.html
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BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Garber, Eric & Lyn Paleo
Uranian Worlds: A Reader's Guide to Alternate Sexuality in Science
Fiction and Fantasy (Not at all a comprehensive listing)
CRITICISM:
Across the Wounded Galaxy: Interviews with writers
Broderick, Damien
Reading by Starlight (post-modern sf, focused on Delany)
Delany, Samuel R.
The Jewel-Hinged Jaw (contains a critique of LeGuin's
The Dispossessed)
Frye, Northrop
Jamison, Frederick
Palumbo, Donald, ed.
Erotic Universe: Sexuality and Fantastic Literature (includes the
articles "Homosexuality in Science Fiction and Fantasy",
"Again, The Left Hand of Darkness: Androgyny or
Homophobia?", etc.)
MAGAZINES:
(NOTE: Many short stories, especially those published in Asimov's, Omni,
Fantasy & SF, and other better-known magazines, can be found in "Best Of"
anthologies like those by Gardner Dozois, DAW, Terri/Windling/Ellen Datlow
-- these collections are generally much easier to find, and you may want
to check them for the titles below.)
Amazing Stories
Quick, W.T. - "Whatever Gets You Through The Night" - March
1990
Analog
Byers Edward - "The Disconnect" - August 1982
Turtledov, Harry - _The Great Unknown_ = April, May, June 1991
Blue Blood (2625 Piedmont Rd, #56332, Atlanta, GA 30324)
(counterculture erotic sf/f/h, multi-orientation, sex-positive)
Dead of Night Magazine
Bowen, Gary - "The Amateur Vampire" - #9
"The Haunting of Andrew Brigg" - #11
"Dream-Eater" - #13
Galaxy
Varley's "Eight Worlds" stories - mid-to-late 70s
Asimov's
Varley, John - "The Barbie Murders" - Feb 1978 (also appeared in
the Terry Carr "Best Of" for 1978)
Shepard, Lucius - "A Traveler's Tale" - July 1984
Rainbow, Tom - "The Science Fiction of Sex change" - July 1985
Jablokov, Alexander - "The Death Artist" - Aug 1990 (also appeared
in The Year's Best Science Fiction, 8th Annual -
Gardner Dozois, ed.)
Casper, Susan - "Nine Tenths of the Law" - Jul 1991
Varley, John - "Her Girl Friday" - Aug 1992
Egan, Greg - "Cocoon" (gay protagonist; genetic programming
of sexuality) - recent
F & SF Magazine
Heinlein, Robert - "All You Zombies" - March 1959
Varley, John - "Picnic on Nearside" - Aug 1974
Omni
Shepard, Lucius - "Life of Buddha" - May 1988 (also appeared in
Year's Best F&H, Second Annual - Datlow & Windling, ed.)
Calder, Richard - "Mosquito" - Jul 1990
Penthouse
Ellison, Harlan - "Erotophobia" - 1981
Playboy
Heym, Stefan - "The Wachsmuth Syndrome" - Sept 1972
Wavelengths - Barnett, Lisa A., Ed. - journal reviewing new GLB F/SF/H
ANTHOLOGIES:
Aldiss, Brian W. - Galactic Empires v.2, p 182-202
Harrison, Harry - "Final Encounter" (kourogenetic men)
Aldiss, Brian W. - Galactic Empires v.2, p 182-202
Harrison, Harry - "Final Encounter" (kourogenetic men)
Busby, F.M. - Getting Home
Busby, F.M. - "Road Map" (body swapping)
- "Getting Home" (body swapping)
Bowen, Gary - Cyber Magick: Lesbian SF
Blevins, Tippi - "The Scent of Fresh Ginger"
Alward, Emily - "Pledge-sister"
Buis, Lela - "Enigma Variations"
M'Clatchey, Gwen - "The Road to Shinki"
Bowen, Gary - Green Echo: Ecological SF
Thomas, Jeffrey - "Fallen" (fallen angel and male lover)
Bowen, Gary - Floating Worlds: Oriental Fantasies (F)
Mohanraj, Mary Anne - "Goddess Blessing" (ff)
Bowen, Gary - Icarus & Angels: Flights of Fantasy
Bowen, Gary - "Sky Fish"
Crittenden, Lee - "Ascension"
Eikamp, Rhonda - "The Physician's Flight"
Thomas, Jeffrey - "Mourning Cloak"
Bowen, Gary - Worthy Foes: Differently-Abled Heroes
Davidson, Stephen Crane - "Jennie Janes,
Pistol-Packing, Wheelchair Rolling, Licensed
Demon Hunter" (discreet lesbian relationship)
Carr, Terry - Universe 9, 10, and 13
Varley, John - "Options"
Busby, F.M. - "First Person Plural"
Bickel, Bill - "The Widow and the Body Sitter" (body swapping)
Clute, John, Colin Greenland and David Pringle - Interzone 1
Ryman, Geoff - "O Happy Day!" (SF) (gay cast)
Clute, John, David Pringle, and Simon Ounsley - Interzone 2
Blumlein, Michael- "The Brains of Rats" (bisexual transvestite)
Correas de Zapata, Celia, ed. - Short Stories by Latin
Amercian Women
Naranjo, Carmen - "Symbiotic Encounter" (pregnant man)
Datlow, Ellen - Alien Sex (SF)
Baker, Scott - "The Jamesburg Incubus"
Decarnin, Camilla; Paleo, Lynn; Garber, Eric - Worlds Apart:
An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Science Fiction
and Fantasy (2nd edition is out)
Del Rey, Judy-Lynn - Stellar 7
Hogan, James - "Identity Crises"
Dozois, Gardner - Year's Best - 7th and 8th
Brennert, Alan - "The Third Sex"
Jablokov, Alex - "The Death Artist"
Eighner, Lars and Clay Caldwell - QSFx2: Queer Science Fiction
5 stories each
Elder, Joseph - Eros in Orbit
Scortia, Thomas - "Flowering Narcissus"
Elliot, Jeffrey M. - Kindred Spirits: An Anthology of Gay and
Lesbian Science Fiction
Ellison, Harlan - Dangerous Visions
Sturgeon, Theodore - "If All Men Were Brothers, Would You
Let One Marry Your Sister" (excellent)
Etchison, Dennis - Cutting Edge (H)
Wagner, Karl Edward - "Lacunae" (fragmenting transsexual)
Foster, Alan Dean - Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves
Lynn, Elizabeth - "The Man who was Pregnant"
Freisner, Esther - Chicks in Chainmail
Gelb, Jeff & Lonn Friend - Hot Blood (trilogy of erotic
horror - some vampire, some contemporary;
supernatural elements)
Gelb, Jeff & Michael Garrett - Hotter Blood
Gelb, Jeff & Michael Garrett - Hottest Blood
- plus several short stories
Gibson, William - Burning Chrome (also contains transgendered
character)
Gibson, William & Shirley - "The Belonging Kind"
Johnson, S.G. - A Crimson Kind of Evil
M'Clatchey, Gwen - "The Mask of Blood"
Johnson, S.G. - Dangerous Women
Files, Gemma - "Flare" (latex)
M'Clatchey, Gwen - "Short Skirts and Patriarchs"
(lesbian terrorists blow up the Washington monument)
Riley, David B. - "Victory Bell" (dominatrix)
Johnson, S.G. - Dark Desires
Lewis, D.F. - "Floater"
Martelli, Alex - "Universal Law" (gay SM)
Johnson, S.G. - Dominion of the Ghosts
Adams, Jane - "Delia in Blue" (femerotic/incestual tension)
Nelson, Amy - "Soleil" (interracial lesbian)
Johnson, S.G. - Moonshadows: Fantasies of Love and Magick
Bland, Polly - "Julia" (lesbian vampire)
Johnson, S.G. - Rites of Passage
Rathbone, Wendy - "Ink and the Moon Goddess"
(lesbian fantasy)
Keesey, Pam, ed. - Daughters of Darkness: Lesbian Vampire Stories
(10 stories)
Knight, Amarantha, Ed. - Sex Macabre (F)
Stone Jr., Del - "Homosexulus" (male homosexual)
Knight, Damon - Orbit 9
Wilhem, Kate - "The Infinity Box"
Marshak, Sondra and Myrna Culbreath - ST: The New Voyages 2
"The Procrustean Petard" (several members of the crew,
including Kirk, McCoy and Uhura, have their genders
reversed by some alien machinery)
Martin, George R.R., ed. - Wild Cards series
Joker's Wild (gay character)
Aces Abroad (bisexual woman)
One-Eyed Jacks
(and more)
Rucker, Rudy, Peter L. Wilson, and Robert A. Wilson - Semiotext(e) (SF)
(a collection of "radical" sf published by the Semiotext(e)
postmodernist journal.)
Rusch, Kristine Kathryn - Pulphouse3
Brennert, Alan - "the Third Sex"
Salmonson, Jessica Amanda - Amazons! & Amazons II
Tomoe Gozen series
SAMOIS, ed., - Coming to Power (excellent s/m anthology) (sf/f)
Drew, Holly - "The Seduction of Earth and Rain" (f)
Schrimm, Janet - "Mirel" - (sf)
Sargent, Pamela - Bio-Futures
LeGuin, Ursula K. - "Nine Lives"
Sargent, Pamela - Women of Wonder
Dorman, Sonya - "When I Was Miss Dow" (sf) (body swapping)
Schwartz, Susan and Martin H. Greenberg - Sisters in Fantasy 1&2
Scortia, Thomas - Strange Bedfellows
Carlson, W. - "Dinner at Helen's"
Soles, Caro and Sten Tal - Bizarre Dreams (gay dark fantasy)
Soles, Caro - Meltdown (gay dark fantasy)
Tan, Cecilia, ed. - Feline Fetishes (bestiality)
- Forged Bonds (b/d, slavery, elves)
- SexMagick (six stories of sex magic)
- TechnoSex (robots/VR) - forthcoming
- Worlds of Women (erotic sf by women) -
forthcoming
(catalog available on-line from Circlet
Press - ctan@world.std.com)
Torgeson, Ray - Chrysalis 1
Lynn, Elizabeth - "The Man Who was Pregnant"
Yolen, Jane, ed. - Xanadu (several queer-positive stories)
Fantasy & SF:
Author Unknown (Star Trek):
"Turnabout Intruder" (episode - Kirk gender change)
Adams, Richard (F)
Maia (bisexual women portrayed positively; decadent, extremely
sexual society)
Watership Down
Adams, Robert (F)
Horseclans series (some readers consider these homophobic -
bad guys are mostly gay (as are some good guys) -
2 polygamous cultures (one with men with multiple
wives, other women with multiple husbands - excellent
hack & slash, sword & sorcery books)
Aldiss, Brian (SF)
Helliconia Trilogy (sex with subhumans, living phallus?)
The Male Response (novella)
The Hand-Reader Boy (F) (masturbation)
Allan, Margaret (pseudonym for W.T. Quick) (a nice guy :-) (F)
The Mammoth Stone
Keeper of the Stone (casual male/male scenes, cult of masturbation)
The Last Mammoth (stretched sexual frontiers)
Alli, Antero (F)
The Akashic Record Player (planetary entity narrates
Herstory about how She arranges meetings between
uncertain humans at certain sites to perform
Earth Rites for future myths)
Amerika, Mark (F)
The Kafka Chronicles (male prostitution, orgies, erotic cannibalism)
Sexual Blood (s/m, rape, hyperhetero [...] (whatever that means)
Anderson, Poul
Eutopia (short story)
The King of Ys series (with Karen Anderson) (Roman myth and magic)
(gay character, homophobic?)
Roma Mater
Andros, Phil
Below the Belt % Other Stories
The Boys in Blue
Different Strokes: Stories
Roman Conquests
Stud: A Novel
Anthony, Piers (SF/F)
Robot Adept series (Brown Adept is a lesbian)
Split Infinity
Blue Adept
Juxtaposition (more in series, but I only liked the
first trilogy)
Bio of a Space Tyrant (five book series - mainly straight, but
moves in a liberalized world)
Vol 1 - Refugee
Vol 2 - Mercenary
Vol 3 - Politican
Vol 4 - Executive
Vol 5 - Statesman
Trilogy: (threesome)
Omnivore
Orn
Ox
Pornucopia (bisexual (sorta) male protagonist, good for a
laugh)
Chthon (one reader describes these two as 'worse than Gor')
Pthor
Arden, Robert (SF/Crime)
Desire (sm, vr, group)
Arnason, Eleanor (SF)
Ring of Swords (gay main character in love with a furry alien from
a sexually-dimorphic world where heterosexuality is
taboo; a witty and intelligent book)
Asimov, Isaac (SF) (classic)
The Gods Themselves (three-gendered aliens)
"Playboy and the Slime Gods", appeared in _Playboy_ (human/alien sex)
Asprin, Robert (F)
Thieves' World series, ed.
Myth series (very funny)
Myth-ing Persons
Myth-nomers and Im-pervections
M.Y.T.H. Inc. Link
Myth Directions
Myth Conceptions
Little Myth Marker
Hit or Myth
Another Fine Myth
Atwood, Margaret (SF) (good)
The Handmaid's Tale (also made into a reasonably good movie,
although they change the ending)
Bailey, Robin Wayne
Shadowdance (bi protagonist)
Brothers of the Dragon trilogy (gay brother)
Baird, Wilhelmina (SF)
CrashCourse (cyberpunk) (1 gay, 1 bi protagonist)
ClipJoint
PsyKosis
Baker, Sharon: (boy prostitute) (SF/F)
Quarreling, They Met the Dragon
Journey to Membliar
The Burning Tears of Sassurum
Ballard, J.G.
Crash! (eroticism of media violence; gay, bi characters)
Concrete Island (eroticism and violence)
The Atrocity Exhibition (media/violence/techno-fetishes)
Banks, Iain
Culture series: (bisexuality is most common mode; genetically
engineered society where sex-changing is a relatively
easy process; protagonists are relatively straight)
Consider Phlebas
The Player of Games
The Use of Weapons
A Gift from the Culture(SF, short story collection)
novella - "The State of the Art"
The Wasp Factory (SF/F/H) (lots of weird sexuality)
Against a Dark Background (SF, nonCulture, reference to
lesbian affair of the protagonist - not his best)
Barker, Clive (came out as gay in Advocate) (H)
Weaveworld (bi characters)
Imajaica (oddly-gendered major character)
The Great and Secret Show (bi and gay characters)
Everville (bi and gay characters)
"In the hills, the cities" (gay male protagonists)
Barnes, Steven (SF)
Gorgon Child (hermaphrodites?)
Streetlethal
Barr, Douglas (SF)
Space Relations (S/M, slavery - very funny)
Barrus, Tim
Genocide (short story collection)
Barton, William (SF)
Yellow Matter (gay novella)
Alpha Centauri (with Paul Capobianco) (hermaphrodite main
character; gay couple; sex and sexual transgressions form
a major part of the plot)
Bass, T.J. (SF)
Half Past Human
Baudino, Gael (F) (good new author - one of our own, I think)
Dragon Trilogy (men changed into women - some become lesbians,
some don't, some suicide)
Dragonsword
Duel of Dragons
Dragon Death
Gossamer Axe (bisexual woman searching for bisexual lover)
Strands of Starlight (bisexual characters in this series)
Maze of Moonlight (outstanding coming out scene)
Shroud of Shadow (depressing as hell)
Strands of Sunlight (a nice conclusion to tetralogy)
O Greenest Branch: Book 1 of Water
Bear, Greg (SF)
The Forge of God
The Anvil of Stars (bisexual protagonist, homosexuality)
de Berg, Jean (pseudonym for Catherine Robbe-Grillet)
The Image (this one isn't SF/F, but...the author is married to
Alain Robbe-Grillet, who writes baroque d/s fantasy)
Berger, Thomas
Regiment of Women (SF) (gender role swaping)
Berthelot, Francis (SF) (gay writer)
La Lune Nore d'Orion
Le Rivage des Intouchables
Bester, Alfred
The Computer Connection (SF, homosexuality, cross-dressing -
faster & funnier than most of his classic works)
Bey, Hakim (F,SF)
Crowstone (pedo)
Bishop, Michael
Unicorn Mountain (secondary character is gay PWA - the other
-characters- are very homophobic, but the author's
portrayal of the gay man is positive)
Block, Francesca Lia (F) (Y)
Ecstasia (male-male relationship)
Primavera (ditto)
Weetsie Bat (witches - 1st in series of 4) (one reader notes
that he detested it - irresponsible sexuality)
Witch Baby
Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys
Blumlein, Michael (H)
X/Y (gender change) (odd book.)
Bowen, Gary
Diary of a Vampire (finalist for Bram Stoker Award; homoerotic
dark fantasy novel about a gay vampire who turns into
a woman for one scene, gay sex, some s/m)
Man Hungry (collection of erotic gay short stories, including sf/f/h)
in Winter of the Soul
"The Haunting of Andrew Brigg"
"Dream-Eater"
"Blood Requiem"
Boyd, John (SF, satire)
Sex and the High Command (males are made obsolete)
The Rakehells of Heaven
Five to Twelve (women put down male rebellion)
The Pollinators of Eden (heroine has lesbian encounter with
mobile plant (in addition to having sex with most of
the male characters)
The Last Starship from Earth
Bradbury, Ray (SF)
I Sing the Body Electric (collection)
"The Warm Wind and the Cold" ('swishy gay boys')
Bradley, Marion Zimmer (SF/F) (bisexuality accepted, women's society
with many lesbians, oppressions of women)
Darkover series
Thendara House
The Forbidden Tower (poly relationships)
The World Wreckers
The Heritage of Hastur
etc....
Lythande (cross-dressing lesbian protagonist - a character
originally made for _Thieves' World_)
Mists of Avalon (Arthurian fantasy from the point of view of
three women - quite good)
Warrior Woman (very bad!) (F) (numerous lesbian characters)
Ruins of Isis (SF) (numerous lesbian characters)
Survey Ship (SF) (gay, interracial, teen)
The Catch Trap (two male trapeze artists in love)
Brass, Perry (SF)
Mirage (gay protagonists)
Sex Charge (gay poetry, non-sf)
Brennert, Alan (SF)
"The Third Sex" (Pulphouse 3; Year's Best SF 7) (Increasing
numbers of people are being born neither male nor
female but generally able to pass as either; motss
sex; 3-way relationship)
Brin, David (SF) (good author)
Glory Season (females can clone with male 'spark'; societal power
with families of cloned women; homosexuality normal;
heterosexuality seasonal and polarized - women in winter,
men in summer)
The Uplift War (chimps, dolphins uplifted to human intelligence.
Simian sexuality, alien sexuality, alien morphs into
human-like female form and marries human)
Brite, Poppy Z. (F)
Lost Souls (vampire book with elements of bisexuality)
Drawing Blood (haunted house novel with gay protagonists)
Love in Vein (short story vampire anth, multiple sexualities)
Broderick, Damien (SF)
The Judas Mandala (lesbian feminist poet protagonist)
(Pocket Books, 1982, out of print)
The White Abacus (forthcoming)
Brown, Fredric (SF)
"All Good Bems" (from Space on my Hands collection) (quintsexual
aliens interacting with humans)
Brunner, John
Stand on Zanzibar (SF, "Homosexuality tolerated, ambivalence
taken for granted" in 'developed' countries - classic,
longish, standard JB)
Bujold, Lois McMaster (SF) (space opera with great characterization!)
Falling Free
Shards of Honor
Barrayar
Cordelia's Honor
Miles Vorkosigan series (hermaphrodite character)
The Warrior's Apprentice
The Vor Game
Ethan of Athos (gay protagonist from a planet of men)
Brothers in Arms
Borders of Infinity (three novellas)
Mirror Dance (mm hermaphrodite attraction, homosexual rape)
Memory
The Spirit Ring (F)
Bull, Emma (excellent author - recommended)
War for the Oaks (F)
Bone Dance (hermaphrodite protagonist)
Falcon
Finder (based on the excellent Borderlands series edited by
Terri Windling - Borderland, Bordertown, Life on the Border)
Burgess, Anthony
The Wanting Seed (homosexuality the norm)
Burka, Lauren P. (SF/F)
Mate: And More Stories from the Erotic Edge of SF/Fantasy
(b/d, s/m - available on-line from Circlet Press)
Burroughs, William S.
The Naked Lunch
Queer
The Wild Boys (gay male utopia)
Busby, F.M.
Star Rebel
Rebel's Quest
The Alien Debt
Rebel's Seed
Zelda M'Tana
Breeds of Man
Rissa Kerguelen (sometimes published as one volume,
sometimes as two, sometimes as three: Young Rissa,
Rissa and Tregare, The Long View)
Butler, Octavia (SF) (recent recipient of a MacArthur "genius" award!)
Trilogy (aliens transform our race - very good)
Dawn
Adulthood Rites
Imago
"Bloodchild" in _Asimov's_ (man impregnated by alien) (also
appeared in Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year
1985)
Patternmaster (recently reissued in paperback)
Mind of My Mind
Survivor
Wild Seed
Kindred
Cadigan, Pat (SF)
"Pretty Boy Crossover" (somewhere in Asimov's) (also appeared in
1987 Annual World's Best SF - Wolheim, ed.)
Mindplayers (homosexual and much more; odd)
Synners (same-sex, more)
"Love Toys of the Gods" (sex w/aliens - hilarious!) - in the
Dozois 11th annual collection
Calder, Richard
Dead Girls (*weird* sexuality)
"Mosquito" (SF) (gay male prostitute who works as an imitation
female robotic sex doll), _Interzone 32)
Califia, Pat (SF) (lesbians +; pretty intense)
Doc & Fluff
Macho Sluts (collection)
Callenbach, Ernest (SF)
Ecotopia (different forms of intentional and present-time relating)
Card, Orson Scott (SF)
Eye for Eye
The Folk of the Fringe
Hart's Hope (F) (rape)
Lost Boys (child molester)
Saints
Songmaster (homosexual, pederasty) (recommended)
A Planet Called Treason (protagonist switches gender often)
The Worthing Saga
Wyrms (girl/beast)
Ender series
Ender's Game (excellent)
Speaker for the Dead (likewise)
Xenocide (interesting, but weak ending, I thought)
The Tales of Alvin Maker
Seventh Son
Red Prophet
Prentice Alvin
Homecoming series
The Memory of Earth
The Call of Earth
The Ships of Earth (gay secondary character, positive)
Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card
Carter, Angela (often shelved with mainstream fiction)
Nights at the Circus (many books w/bisexual/lesbian female
protagonists or subplots
The Passion of New Eve (features a man who is changed into a
woman)
Carter, Lin (F)
Tara of the Twilight
Cashorali, Peter (F)
Fairy Tales: Traditional Tales Retold for Gay Men (16 modernised,
queer-themed folktales)
Chalker, Jack L. (gender-changing)
Changewinds series: (SF/F)
When the Changewinds Blow (lesbian protagonist)
Riders of the Winds
War of the Maelstrom
Soul Rider series: (SF/F)
Spirits of Flux and Anchor
Empires of Flux and Anchor
Masters of Flux and Anchor
The Birth of Flux and Anchor
Children of Flux and Anchor
River of the Dancing Gods series (F)
Horrors of the Dancing Gods (positive transgender, more)
Rings of the Master series (SF)
Four Lord of the Diamonds series (one planet had denizens able
to switch bodies with anyone in close proximity overnight)
The Identity Matrix (gender change)
Downtiming the Night Side (multiple gender/persona change)
Well of Souls series
Chalker, Jack L.; Resnick, Mike; Effinger, George E.
Red Tape War (SF) (satire, bodyswapping)
Chandler, A. Bertram (SF)
Spartan Plan (all-male colony world with a retrofitted history
to make the inhabitants think they are the original
Spartans - then a mixed-gender ship comes along...)
The Inheritors (cats/Dr. Moreau/underpeople story)
Charnas, Suzy McKee (F)
Motherlines (tribe of lesbian horsewomen face off the patriarchy)
Walk to the End of the World
The Furies
(concluding volume of tetralogy in process)
"Beauty and the Opera, or the Phantom Beast" (forthcoming in Asimov's)
Cherryh, C.J. (SF) (recommended)
Cyteen trilogy (only a trilogy in US paperback edition)
(bisexual characters - political handicap)
Russian folklore series
Rusalka
Chernevog
Yvgenie
Musings on the alien series
Foreigner (I very much enjoyed this -- the only author
Invader I know who writes such alien aliens is O. Butler)
Inheritor
Clarke, Arthur C. (SF) (classic, recommended)
Imperial Earth (protagonist is bisexual man - bisexuality norm)
Songs of Distant Earth
2010/2061
Rendezvous with Rama (gay couple)
Cradle (with Gentry Lee) (somewhat stereotypical gay couple)
Clayton, Jo (SF/F) (recommended)
Many series -- protagonist in Skeen series is bisexual
Changers' Moon series (bisexual protagonist from all-female
martial temple setting)
Cleve, James (multiple sexualities series)
Cole, Alan and Chris Bunch
The Far Kingdoms (protagonist has a lesbian sister)
A Warrior's Tale (lesbian is protagonist in this book)
Comfort, Alex
Tetrarch (land of polybi semi-immortals who are forever
children-just-enough-past-puberty-to-have-sex)
The Joy of Sex
Constantine, Storm (SF)
The Monstrous Regiment (struggle for sexual equality on a
planet slipping from a proto-feminist society to a matriarchal
dictatorship)
Wraeththu series: (humans mutating into hermaphrodites)
This series was recently published in a one volume
edition:
The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit
The Bewitchment of Love and Hate
The Fulfillments of Fate and Desire
Hermetech (protagonist is bi female; bi males)
Burying the Shadow (bisexuality the norm)
The Grigori trilogy (bisexual fallen angels in contemp. England)
Stalking Tender Prey
Scenting Hallowed Blood
Stealing Sacred Fire (forthcoming November 1997)
Cooke, Catherine (F)
The Winged Assassin (trilogy with gay male protagonist)
Realm of the Gods
The Crimson Goddess
Cooke, John Peyton (F)
http://www.bway.net/~jpcooke/home.html
The Lake (gay teen major character)
Out for Blood (gay vampire novel - all characters gay or bi)
Torsos (suspense novel with gay main characters)
The Chimney Sweeper (suspense novel with gay main character/narrator)
Cooper, Edmund (SF)
Seahorse in the Sky (minor gay character)
Gender Genocide (women hunting men; lesbianism is the norm)
The Tenth Planet (man wakes far in the future, in a time when
violence is unusual, jealousy is forbidden and sex is
free. He doesn't react well.)
Cox, Joan (SF)
Mind Song (pub 1979 & long OOP; male-male attraction)
Star Web (1980, ditto; bi-threesome of protag. with twin sister
and brother)
Dean, Pamela (F)
Tam Lin (retelling of Tam Lin ballad, recommended)
The Dubious Hills
Delany, Samuel (highly recommended)
Babel-17 (SF) (poly relationship)
The Ballad of Beta 2
Dhalgren (SF) (explicit bisexual scenes, alternative
lifestyles, gay leatherman, s/m, difficult book)
Distant Stars (anthology)
Driftglass
The Einstein Intersection
Empire Star
The Fall of the Towers Trilogy
Out of the Dead City
City of a Thousand Suns
The Towers of Toron
Hogg (F) (s/m, rape, wilding, gay, not for the faint of heart)
The Jewels of Aptor
Neveryona series: (F) (gay man; leathersex; lesbian)
Tales of Neveryon
Neveryona
Flight from Neveryon
Return to Neveryon
The Bridge of Lost Desire
Nova
Stars in my Pocket Like Grains of Sand (SF) (galactic gay love
story; includes a gay bathhouse scene where the main
character makes it with the native (insect-like)
intelligence on his home planet)
Triton (SF) (gay characters)
They Fly at Ciron (F)
Equinox (aka Tides of Lust) (F) (everybody doing everybody)
"The Star Pit" - in SF-12
"Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones" (highly rec!)
The Motion of Light in Water (autobiography)
Heavenly Breakfast (autobiography)
The American Shore (nonfiction)
Starboard Wine (nonfiction)
Devenport, Emily (SF)
Scorpianne (protagonist is VR prostitute)
Shade (protagonist is female sexually active street kid;
who matures to exceptional adult)
Larissa (ditto)
Diaman, N.A. (F)
Private Nation (gay, future-fantasy romantic adventure novel)
Castro Street Memories (this and the following are non-sf)
Ed Dean is Queer
Reunion
Second Crossing
Disch, Tom
334 (sex in pre-pubescents; strange sex roles)
On Wings of Song
+ some short stories
Douglas, L. Warren (SF)
Bright Islands in a Dark Sea (negative image of homosexual
priests)
Drake, David & S.M. Stirling
The General series: (3 major characters in a family)
The Forge
The Hammer
The Anvil (forthcoming)
The Steel (forthcoming)
Dreher, Sarah
Duane, Diane (F) (bisexuality is the norm; positive; good writer)
Door into Fire
Door into Shadow
Door into Sunset
Door into Starlight
Wizardry series (juvenile, gay male couple - highly recommended)
So You Want to Be a Wizard
Deep Wizardry
High Wizardry
A Wizard Abroad
The Book of Night with Moon (cat protagonists)
The Wounded Sky (Star Trek)
My Enemy, My Ally (Star Trek)
Eddings, David (F)
Belgariad series (five books - I'd list 'em, but they're all
the same....IMO)
Mallorean series (ditto)
Elenium series (ditto, incomplete)
The Diamond Throne (and others in the series)
(pederast nobleman)
Tamuli series (ditto)
Effinger, Alec (SF) (prostitutes, sex changes, 8 known sexes)
When Gravity Fails
A Fire in the Sun
The Exile Kiss
Elgin, Suzette Haden (SF) (dystopia where all women are slaves)
Native Tongue
Judas Rose
Earthsong
Elliot, Jeffrey
Elliot, Sumner Locke (SF) (gay author)
The Man Who Got Away (time-travel, very positive homosexuality)
Emery, Clayton
Card Master (lesbian main character)
Emshwiller, Peter R. (SF)
The Host (bodyswapping)
Short Blade (bodyswapping, lesbian)
Engh, M.J. (SF) (recommended)
Rainbow Man (switched sex roles)
Esser, Kevin (SF)
Dance of the Warriors (pedo)
Evenblij, Paul and Paul Harland
Systems of Romance (anthology, mostly translated from Dutch,
gay and other queer themes)
Fancher, Jane S. (trilogy with bisexual male protagonists)
Groundties
Uplink
Harmonies ofthe Net
Farmer, Philip Jose (bisexual vampires)
Image of the Beast
Blown
Riverworld series, esp.
The Dark Design (lesbian protagonist)
A Feast Unknown
Lord of the Trees/The Mad Goblin
The Lovers
Strange Relations
Venus on the Half Shell by Kilgore Trout
Dare
Flesh (uncensored versin in French: Une Bourree Pastorale)
Traitor to the Living (bodyswapping)
Dark is the Sun (many sexualities)
"Open to me, my sister"
Feintuch, David (F)
The Still (a teenage prince who must remain a virgin has gay sex
with his bisexual friend; well-written coming-of-age
story)
Finch, Sheila
Infinity's Web
Flewelling, Lynn (F) (recommended)
Luck in the Shadows (bi protag, Kinsey 1)
Stalking Darkness (ditto)
Foglio, Phil
XXXenophile (adult comic book)
Forrest, Katherine
Dreams & Swords
Daughters of the Coral Dawn
Foster, Alan Dean - Star Trek Log Ten (SF)
(Second half of the novel is the alterantive sexualities part:
Kirk, Spock, Sulu and Uhura are involved in a
transporter accident and minds and bodies are switched
- not so serious; very funny! :-)
Foster, M.A. (SF)
The Morphodite (body shifting)
Fox, Brandon (F)
Apprenticed to Pleasure (gay erotic sword and sorcery fantasy)
Franklin, Patrick
The Uncertainty of Strangers
Sea Gift (short story)
Frankowski, Leo (SF)
Cross-Time Engineer (+ 4 more books in the series - homophobic
protagonist goes on and on about how het he is, and
sets up a sort of sexual utopia where he gets to have
sex with almost any woman he wants)
Freireich, Valerie
Becoming Human (bi protagonist) (recommended)
Gannett, Lewis
The Living One (F) (gay protagonist
Magazine Beach (SF) (bisexual secondary characters)
Gearhart, Sally Miller
The Wanderground
Gentle, Mary
Golden Witchbreed (SF) (gender-bending, homosexuality accepted)
Ancient Light (SF) (same as above)
Rats and Gargoyles (F)
The Architecture of Desire (F)
Scholars and Soldiers (F) (short fiction)
Grunts (F pastiche) (interracial orc-elf leather SM dyke action)
Gerrold, David
The Man Who Folded Himself (homosexuality theme, protagonist
has sex with himself)
War Against the Chtorr series (biseuxals, pederasty)
Gibson, William (SF) (cyberpunk)
Sprawl trilogy
Neuromancer
Count Zero
Mona Lisa Overdrive
The Difference Engine (with Bruce Sterling)
Gilman, Carolyn Ives (SF)
Halfway Human (asexual class of 'blands' existing to serve fellow
sexualised humans; explores different sexualities, gender
roles and slavery)
Gladney, Heather
Teot's War
Blood Storm
short stories in Pandora Magazine
Glenn, Nancy Tyler (F)
Clicking Stones
Goldstein, Lisa (F) (highly recommended)
Strange Devices of the Sun and Moon (excellent book, winner of
the American Book Award) (homosexual protagonist - Kit
Marlowe, and other mentions; historical fantasy, set in
Shakesperean times)
Tourists
The Red Magician
Walking the Labyrinth
Gom, Leona
The Y Chromosome (Second Story Press, 1990) (The males are
dying and no new ones are being born; humanity
continues with the discovery of ova-fusion.)
Gomez, Jewelle
The Gilda Chronicles
Swords of the Rainbow (gay/les af anthology)
Gravel, Geary (SF)
Return of the Breakneck Boys (secondary character is a gay man
with AIDS)
Griffith, Nicola (SF) (lesbian author; highly recommended)
Ammonite (lesbian - won 1995 Lambda Literary Award and
the 1994 James Tiptree Jr. Award for best examination
of gender)
Slow River (won 1996 Nebula award)
"Yaguara", Asimov's March 1995 - (lesbian erotic horror)
'The Voyage South", Red Thirst, ed. David Pringle, GW Books, 1990
"Touching Fire", Interzone #70, 1993
"Song of Bullfrogs, Cry of Geese", Interzone #48, 1991
"Wearing My Skin", Internzone #50, 1991
"Mirrors and Burnstone", Interzone, #25, 1990
"Down the Path of the Sun", Interzone #34, 1990
"We Have Met the Alien", Iron Women, Iron Press, 1990
"The Other", Ignorant Armies, ed. David Pringle, GW Books, 1989
"An Other Winter's Tale", Network, vol. 3, 1986
Bending the Landscape: Fantasy (editor, anthology of 22
queer-themed stories)
Haldeman, Joe (SF)
The Forever War (starts out with heterosexuality the norm - as
time progresses, homosexuality becomes the norm. The
'het hero' is considered a pervert by the troops he
leads, who were born hundreds of years later)
Worlds
Worlds Apart
Hambly, Barbara (cruel, insane gay character) (high fantasy)
The Silent Tower
The Silicon Mage
Hand, Elizabeth (SF)
Winterlong (quite good)
Glimmering (gay male protagonist in millenial tale of the end of
the world)
Hansen, Karl.
"Dreams Unwind." _The Seventh Omni Book of Science
Fiction_.
"The Ballad of Lady Blue", _Chrysalis 9_, Roy Torgeson, ed. (lots
of Hansen stories in this out-of-print series; most feature
bioengineering, various sexualities, some pedophilia which
mostly (but not all) involves genetically engineered
"pedimorphs")
Dream Games (SF) (pedophilia, incest, body reshaping to
animals -- reviewer's note: 'one of the only books
I have ever thrown into the rubbish. I have small
children, and the sexual predation is too disturbing
to me. Not a very good read, even without the things
that offended me.')
Harper, Tara K.
Lightwing (SF) (aliens and human-mutants with alternative
sexualities, eg. the Ruvians, a human-mutant species with
five sexual orientations)
Wolfwalker series (Tale of the Wolves)
Wolfwalker
Shadow Leader
Storm Runner
Wolf's Bane
Grayheart
CatScratch series (same universe as Lightwing)
Cat Scratch Fever (nominated for the Oregon Book Awards)
Cataract
Harrison, Harry (SF)
Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers
"Final Encounter" (character from an exclusively male society)
Havocs, James (F)
Satanskin (s/m, sex magick, etc.)
Heinlein, Robert A. (SF) (far too many to list all titles here - 46+)
I Will Fear No Evil (male becomes biseuxal female)
Stranger in a Strange Land (bisexual male protagonist - don't
argue with me on this one - take it to r.a.sf.written)
Number of the Beast (references to homosexuality)
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (clan marriages; line marriages)
Time Enough for Love (bisexual incest, in an odd kind of way)
Friday (bisexual female protagonist; open polyamorous society)
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (homosexual encounter)
To Sail Beyond the Sunset
Herbert Frank (SF)
Dune (intimations of a homosexual incident with the Baron)
Dune Messiah
Children of Dune
God Emperor of Dune (lesbians in the army?)
Chapter House dune
The White Plague (most women die of plague, polyandry becomes norm)
Whipping Star (sadism)
Hickman, Tracy
The Immortals (SF) (gay protagonists in near future, disease-torn
world)
(see also Weiss/Hickman)
Holland, Cecelia
Floating Worlds (bi heroine) (SF)
Jerusalem (the rest are historical fiction, gay protagonists)
Hammer of God
City of Princes
The Antichrist
Hughart, Barry (F)
The Bridge of Birds (excellent novel)
The Story of the Stone
Eight Skilled Gentlemen
Huff, Tanya (F) (lots of poly stuff throughout; poly and queer handled
as normal preferences in life for the most part)
Fire's Stone (homosexuality)
Blood Price (bi male vampire)
Blood Trail (as above, bestiality (sort of))
Blood Lines
Blood Pact
Child of the Grove
The Last Wizard
Gate of Darkness, Circle of Light
Sing the Four Quarters
Fifth Quarter
No Quarter
Ings, Simon (recommended) (may be difficult to find in US)
City of the Iron Fish (F) (bi narrator, gay characters)
Hot Head (SF)
Hot Wire (SF)
Janifer, Laurence M. (SF)
Bloodworld (protagonist from an exclusively S/M society;
has problems getting along with 'straight' culture)
Jennings, Gary
Raptor (hermaphrodite protagonist)
Aztec (lesbian and bisexual scenes)
Jeter, K.W.
Dr. Adder (starts off with bestiality, amputees and extreme
surgical modifications, then starts getting strange...)
Joblokov, Alexander (SF)
Nimbus (female who alters appearance and preferences to become
a serial multiple personality)
Johnson, Toby
Secret Matter (homosexuality in aliens) (won Lambda Literary Award)
Jordan, Robert (F) (warning -- I ended up throwing the 7th book against
the wall, 'cause I got so frustrated with this series; poly situations)
Eye of the World
Great Hunt
Dragon Reborn
Shadow Rising
Fires of Heaven
Lord of Chaos (and still going...)
Kadrey, Richard
Metrophage (three-way and other alternative stuff)
"Genocide" - appeared in Semiotexte SF (alternative porn)
"The Kill Fix" - appeared in Asimov's (three-way)
Kay, Guy Gavriel (F) (excellent author - one of my favorites)
The Fionavar Tapestry:
The Summer Tree
The Wandering Fire
The Darkest Road
Tigana (effeminate gay character, incest, S/M)
A Song for Arbonne
The Lions of Al-Rassan
Keegan, Mel
Death's Head (gay men)
Equinox (gay)
Fortunes of War
Ice Wind and Fire
Kerr, Katherine (some titles change across the ocean)
Daggerspell
Darkspell
Dawnspell
Dragonspell
A Time of Exile
A Time of Omens
A Time of War - Days of Blood and Fire
A Time of Justice - Days of Air and Darkness
Kingsbury, Daniel (SF)
Courtship Rite (mating rituals of marooned humans) (aka Geta in
U.K.)
Koja, Kathe
"Skin Deep" - Dozois 7th annual collection (sex w/alien)
Skin (quasi-mainstream novel, which explores 90s fringe/fetish
culture, performance art, and various perversitites)
Kink: A Novel (FFM threesome in erotic horror)
Kornbluth, C.M. and Fred Pohl (SF)
Search the Sky (brief sketch for female supremacist society)
Kress, Nancy (SF)
An Alien Light (bi alien woman warrior)
Kube-McDowell, Michael (SF)
The Quiet Pools (polyamory; plot involves contract and poly
marriages; lines, troikas, etc. also includes
'relationship technologist', a profession based
originally on marriage counselling, but for poly and
contract unions; recommended)
Alterntities (social ramifications of generation ships)
Kushner, Ellen (F) (recommended)
Swordspoint (bisexual man and gay man)
Thomas the Rhymer (no bi or gay content, but a great book)
"Lazarus" - Jessica Salmonson's Heroic Visions II
"The Swordsman Whose Name was Not Death" - Datlow/Windling 5th
annual collection
Lackey, Mercedes (F) (popular fantasy)
The Mage Wars (gay characters, bdsm, [prostitute] protag.)
The Black Gryphon
The White Gryphon
The Silver Gryphon
The Books of the Last Herald-Mage (gay protagonists)
Magic's Pawn
Magic's Promise
Magic's Price
Vows and Honor (asexual protagonist)
Oathbound
Oathbreakers
Kerowyn's Tale
By the Sword
The Heralds of Valdemar (gay characters)
Arrows of the Queen
Arrow's Flight
Arrow's Fall
The Mage Winds (sort of prostitute characters)
Winds of Fate
Winds of Change
Winds of Fury
The Mage Storms
Storm Warning
Storm Rising
Rediscovery (with Marion Z. Bradley, a Darkover novel)
Knight of Ghosts & Shadows (with Ellen Guon) (polyfidel. triad)
Summoned to Tourney (with Ellen Guon) (sequel to _Knight_)
Diana Tregarde series: (pagan witch, gay characters, AIDS)
Children of the Night
Burning Water
Jinx High
Serrated Edge series:
Born to Run (with Larry Dixon) (boy prostitute)
Wheels of Fire (with Mark Shepherd)
Chrome Circle (with Larry Dixon)
When the Bough Breaks (Holly Lisle)
Laidlaw, Marc (SF)
Dad's Nuke (gay protagonist)
Larson, Jeanne (F)
Bronze Mirror (12c China, bisexual threesome)
Lee, Tanith
Flat Earth series (everyone is bi):
Night's Master
Death's Master
Delusion's Master
Delirium's Mistress
Night's Sorceries
Birthgrave trilogy (countries where homosexuality
Stormlord is common)
The Silver Metal Lover (android lover)
Drinking Sapphire Wine (experimenting teens)
"The Book of the Mad", The Secret Books of Paradys III & IV
(bisexual protagonist, incest)
Leiber, Fritz (classic)
The Knight and Knave of Swords (F) (explicit lesbian s/m)
"Slack Tuesday Night in Lankhmar, Featuring Hisvet" (scene
mentioned above, for those who want to cut to the chase)
The Wanderer (SF) (good human/alien sex scene)
Leiber, Justin (SF) (trilogy involve mf body swapping)
Beyond Rejection
Beyond Humanity
Beyond Gravity
Le Guin, Ursula K. (SF) (highly recommended)
The Left Hand of Darkness (neuter alien, except during mating,
when can be either sex; seminal work)
The Dispossessed (some bisexuality, gay characters)
The Lathe of Heaven
"The Matter of Seggri" (sexually polarized and insular society)
The Word for World is Forest
"Another Story," in Le Guin's book A Fisherman of the Inland
Sea: Science Fiction Stories (society with complicated,
bisexual marriage customs)
Levin, Ira (SF) (classic -- excellent read)
This Perfect Day (bisexuality the norm; precursor to cyberpunk)
Lewitt, Shariann (SF)
Interface Masque (gay main character)
Lilly, John and Antonietta
The Cyadic Cyclone
Littell, Jonathan (cyberpunk)
Bad Voltage (bisexual male protagonist)
Logston, Anne (F)
Shadow
Shadow Hunt
Shadow Dance
Lynch, Lee (F)
Sue Slate: Private Eye (talking lesbian cats)
Lynn, Elizabeth (F) (classic)
Chronicles of Tornor:
Watchtower
Dancers of Arun
Northern Girl
The Sardonyx Net (SF) (sadism and incest; moderately sympathetic)
The Woman Who Loved the Moon (short story collection)
(also in Amazons!, ed. J.A. Salmonson)
A Different Light (gay male protagonists)
"The Man Who Was Pregnant" (short story)
MacGregor, Loren (SF)
The Net (lesbian, gay and bi characters)
(he notes that his upcoming novel features, among other
things, an hermaphrodite whose sexuality is under total
conscious control -- meaning that s/he can switch back
and forth between genders at will).
MacLeod, Ian (SF)
"The Grownups" (three sexes: males, females and uncles (who
are male until puberty but later bear children)
Maine, Charles Eric
Alph (SF) (parthnogenetically reproducing all-female society)
Marks, Laurie J. (F)
Delan the Mislaid (a world with race of hermaphrodites)
The Moonbane Mage
Ara's Field
The Watcher's Mask (different world; no LBG content)
Dancing Jack (bi/lesbian protagonists)
Martine-Barnes, Adrienne
The Fire Sword (lesbian sex with Celtic goddess)
Maxwell, Ann
Fire Dancer
Dancer's Luck
Dancer's Illusion
Carifil series (may be hard to find)
Name of a Shadow
A Dead God Dancing
The Jaws of Menx
Timeshadow Rider
The Singer Enigma
May, Julian (SF)
The Saga of the Pliocene Exiles: (lesbian character, gay male couple)
The Many Coloured Land
The Golden Torc
The Non-born King
The Adversary
Intervention
Jack the Bodiless (first book in the Milieu Trilogy)
Diamond Mask (same gay male couple as above)
Magnificat (upcoming)
McCaffrey, Anne (SF/F) (classic)
Dragonrider series: (implications that some green riders are gay)
Dragonflight
Dragonquest
The White Dragon
The Harper Hall of Pern:
Dragonsong
Dragonsinger
Dragondrums
Moreta (specific incident with gay male dragonriders)
Nerilka's Story
Dragonsdawn
Renegades of Pern
All the Weyrs of Pern
Crystal Singer
Killashandra (bisexual woman character)
Crystal Line (Killa describes someone as resolutely
heterosexual)
"Changeling" (gay protagonist) - in anthology: Get Off the
Unicorn (also contains short story about woman and two men)
The Powers That Be (gay couple, lesbian couple)
Power Lines
McDonald, Ian
"Some Strange Desire" - Datlow Windling 7th annual
(shapeshifter/hermaphrodites; a beautiful, hard-edged story)
McHugh, Maureen F. (SF)
China Mountain Zhang (gay protagonist, positive portrayal, and
a damn good read besides)
Half the Day is Night
McIntyre, Vonda N. (SF)
Starfarers (partnership of two men and two women)
Dreamsnake
Transition
Metaphase
Meier, Shirley
Shadow's Daughter (2nd book in series with S.M. Stirling)
The Sharpest Edge (with Stirling) (lesbian) (was reprinted as
Saber and Shadow, almost the same story but with some
changes in the early chapters which were apparently made
so that The Cage makes more sense. TSE doesn't appear to
be available any longer.)
The Cage (with Stirling) (lesbian)
Shadow's Son (with Stirling and Karen Wehrstein)
Meluch, R.M. (SF)
Sovereign (bisexual male protagonist)
Chicago Red (bi/gay character)
Wind Child (bi encounter w/ hermaphroditic alien)
Wind Dancers (as above)
The Queen's Squadron (S/M relationship between a bisexual man and
a gay man. Interesting commentary on homophobia and
truth-telling)
Mezo, Francine (female protagonist with alien humanoid)
The Fall of Worlds (good; romantic with lots of action)
Unless She Burn
No Earthly Shore
Millar, Martin (may be difficult to find in US)
The Good Fairies of New York (F) (lots of fun varied
fairy sex; gay, lesbian, incest, bi)
Lux the Poet (following titles are mainstream, queer characters)
Milk, Sulphate & Alby Starvation
Dreams of Sex and Stage Diving
Milligan, Peter (F, comic)
Shade the Changing Man (bi protagonists)
Enigma (gay protagonists)
Minns, Eric
Island Boy
Mixon, Laura J. (SF)
Glass Houses (lesbian relationshiip goes sour and a very
entertaining cyber-type story)
Moffett, Judith (SF)
Time, Like an Ever-Rolling Stream (sexually confused
female protagonist, best friends with gay man)
Penterra (some weird sexuality, including father/son incest,
all portrayed positively)
Mohanraj, Mary Anne (F/SF)
Torn Shapes of Desire: Internet Erotica
"Diana" (ff sex scene)
(note: only a few of the stories in the collection are
f/sf, but many pieces contain alternative sexualities)
"Fleeing Gods", in _Sex Magick 2_ (also in Torn Shapes)
"Goddess Blessing", in _Floating Worlds_ (ff)
Moon, Elizabeth (recommended - very solid writer)
Deed of Paksenarrion (pair of lesbians; homosexuality fairly
normal though uncommon, asexual heroine)
Sheepfarmer's Daughter
Divided Allegiance
Oath of Gold
Hunting Party
Sporting Chance (sequel to Hunting Party) (lesbians)
Surrender None: The Legacy of Gird
Liar's Oath
Lunar Activity
Sassinak (with Anne McCaffrey)
Generation Warriors (with Anne McCaffrey)
Moorcock, Michael (classic)
Gloriana (F) (detailed exploration of sexuality; gay, bi, bdsm,
etc.; recommended high fantasy)
many, many SF novels which mention bisexuality in passing
Adventures of Catherine Cornelius and Una Persson in the 20th
Century (SF)
Moore, Alan
"A Hypothetical Lizard", Datlow/Windling 1st annual (drag queen
protagonist; story set in a brothel. This story is from
Liavek: Wizard's Row, the third in the shared-world series
edited by Shetterly & Bull; the Liavek series is set in a
world where various sexualities are accepted (kind of a
much cooler Thieves' World))
Moran, Daniel Keyes (SF)
The Armageddon Blues (bisexual time-traveller)
The Long Run (biseuxal 17-yr-old)
The Last Dancer (same char., now 24, homosexual villain)
Emerald Eyes
Mordden, Ethan (F)
"short story, title unknown", in _I've a Feeling We're Not in
Kansas Anymore_ (Devil grants gay man the ability to
change his physical form)
Morris, Janet
The Dream Dancer series
Morrison, Grant (comic)
The Invisibles (lgb, tv)
"The Braille Encyclopedia" - Datlow and Windling 5th Annual (much
s/m twistedness)
Morrow, James
Murphy, Pat
The Falling Woman (Nebula winner)
Nadya - The Wolf Chronicles (bisexual werewolf looking for love
in the Old West)
Nader, George
Chrome (terrible writing)
Niven, Larry (SF) (recommended)
Ringworld Engineers (ritualized sex between species)
The Smoke Ring
The Integral Trees (lesbian warriors - do the risky work
because they don't reproduce; one of them changes
her mind and becomes the straight love interest
of one of the main characters)
A World Out of Time (aging has been solved, so on Earth,
only the Boys are left, playing and hunting. The
Girls left long ago, to explore space.
Noon, Jeff (SF)
Pollen (cyber; new human-animal and human-plant genders)
Norman, John
Gor series (female sexual slavery) (rather appalling series)
(I didn't want to include these, because I don't think
they're appropriate, but so many people kept mentioning
them...)
Pangborn, Edgar
Davy
Still I Persist in Wondering, ed. Spider Robinson
A Company of Glory (warning: novel was heavily bowdlerized,
by editors who considered it 'too faggoty')
Patton, Fiona (F)
The Stone Prince (The hero has a deep, loving relationship with
another man. The book describes a society of same-sex
'Companions' for nobility. Bisexuality.)
Perry, Steve (SF)
Matador series:
Book 1: The 97th Step
Book 2: The Man Who Never Missed
Book 3: Matadora (lesbian relationship)
Book 4: The Machiavelli Interface
Book 5: The Albino Knife
Book 6: Black Steele
Book 7: Brother Death
Piercy, Marge (SF)
Woman at the Edge of Time (bisexual utopia)
He, She, & It (sexual relationship with android)
The Moon is Always Female (poetry collection - good)
Plantenga, Bart (SF)
Wiggling Wishbone (1998 publication in Czech) (illustrated work of
speculative metafictions
The Man Who Thought He Was the Man Who Loved Women
Platt, Charles (SF)
The Gas (obscure sf sex novel) - published by Ophelia Press or
Olympia Press? - difficult to find
Pohl, Frederik (SF)
Gateway (bisexuality is the norm and concern of protagonist)
Heechee Rendezvous (gay couple)
Years of the City (group living arrangement)
with C. M. Kornbluth
The Space Merchants (SF, homosexuality, some torture which you
just MIGHT classify as SM - classic, still
interesting; good example for co-authorship)
The Merchant's War
Pollack Rachel (F)
"Black Rose, White Rose" (short story)
Temporary Agency (lesbian relationship)
Pynchon, Thomas (literary, highly recommended)
The Crying of Lot 49
V., A Novel
Gravity's Rainbow
Vineland
Slow Learner (short story collection)
Quick, W.T.
Cyberpunk series:
Dreams of Flesh and Sand (SF) (gay villain)
Dreams of Gods and Men
Singularities
- writing as Margaret Allan: (F)
Dreams of the Stone
The Last Mammoth
Reage, Pauline (not SF or F, but fascinating anyway)
The Story of O (I & II) (s&m, lesbians, slavery)
Reamy, Tom (F)
"San Diego Lightfoot Sue" (novella)
Resnick, Mike
Tales of the Velvet Comet (galactic brothel)
Eros Ascending
Eros at Zenith
Eros Descending
Eros at Nadir
Rhinehart, Luke
The Dice Man (protagonist has gay sex when required to by his
dice)
Rice, Anne (F)
The Vampire Chronicles:
Interview with the Vampire
The Vampire Lestat
Queen of the Damned
Tale of the Body Thief
Cry to Heaven
Exit to Eden (as Anne Rampling) (s&m)
Sleeping Beauty series (as A.N. Roquelaire) (s&m)
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
Beauty's Punishment
Beauty's Release
The Witching Hour (minor gay characters)
Belinda (not sf/f; cons pedo (with teen))
Ridley, Philip
Crocodilia [publ: Brilliance]
Rivkin, J.F. (F)
Silverglass series: (two bisexual female protagonists)
Silverglass (good hack and slash)
Web of Wind
Witch of Rhosthyl
Mistress of Ambiguities
Robinson, Frank M. (SF)
The Dark Beyond the Stars (gay protagonist - won Lambda Award)
Robinson, Spider (SF) (homosexuality, bisexuality, s/m, transvestism, etc.)
Stardance (quite good)
Starseed
Mindkiller (bondage; bi female; asexual, etc.)
Time Pressure (scared butch men discovering bisexuality)
(two previous recently republished together as
title Deathkiller)
Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
Time-Travellers Strictly Cash
Callahan's Lady (very high-class whorehouse with unusual customers)
Lady Slings the Booze (excellent sequel - puns galore)
Rohan, Michael Scott
Chase the Morning (minor bi character)
Rosenblum, Mary (SF)
Chimera (one definitely and one possibly bisexual protagonist)
Rucker, Rudy (SF)
Master of Time and Space (humorous; protagonist accidentally wishes
for and is turned into Marilyn Monroe look-a-like for part
of story; gender bending)
Rusch, Kristine Kathryn (F)
The Heart Readers
with Kevin J. Anderson (H/F)
Afterimage (gender shift)
Russ, Joanna
The Female Man
And Chaos Died (SF) (gay identified protagnoist; sex between
telepaths; homophobic character)
On Strike Against God (novella; lesbian coming out to herself)
Zanzibar Cat (short story collection)
"When It Changed" (also in Ellison's _Dangerous
Visions_, and Nestle's _Women on Women_)
"Mr Wilde's Second Chance"
Extraordinary People (short story collection)
"Bodies"
"Mystery of the Young Gentleman"
Hidden Side of the Moon (short story collection)
"Cliches From Outer Space"
Ryman, Geoff
The Child Garden
The Warrior Who Carried Life (female turned into male, falls
in love with a woman, turns back to female)
Was (gay characters and incest)
Sargent, Pamela (SF)
The Shore of Women (women in vast cities, men in nomadic bans
- love between sexes strictly forbidden; sounds
somewhat like Tepper's Gate to Women's Country)
Venus of Dreams
Venus of Shadows
Scheckley, Robert
Immortality, Inc. (body swapping; was made into a movie with Emilio
Estevez and Mick Jagger)
Schimmel, Lawrence (F)
The Drag Queen of Elfland (collection with many gay male, lesbian
and bi protagonists)
Schulman, J. Neil (SF)
The Rainbow Cadenza (gay men, scarcity of women)
Scott, Melissa
Mighty Good Road (SF) (lesbian protagonist)
The Armor of Light (with Lisa Barnett) (F) (several gay males)
Dreamships (SF) (lesbian)
Dreaming Metal (sequel to Dreamships; same queer characters plus
more)
Burning Bright
The Roads of Heaven (SF, omnibus) - Woman joins in a three-way
marriage with two men who are lovers; at first for
convenience, and later for love
Five Twelfths of Heaven
Silence in Solitude
The Empress of Earth
Trouble and Her Friends (lesbian protagonists, cyberpunk)
The Kindly Ones (SF) (gay/bi? hero)
Shadow Man (SF) (5 human sexes through settled space; novel
takes places on a world that only acknowledges 2 sexes
despite having the same 5; conflict between social
and physical realities)
Night Sky Mine (gay male couple and a budding teenage lesbian)
Point of Hopes (F; with Lisa Barnett) (wonderfully-conceived
fantasy world where everyone is bisexual)
Shaw, Bob (SF)
Call Me Dumbo (male turned female in order to generated offspring)
Shea, Robert and Robert Anton Wilson
Illuminatus! trilogy (SF)
Schroedinger's Cat trilogy (vagabond body parts, midgets, and
transsexuality)
Sheffield, Charles
Proteus Unbound (also available in 1 volume - Proteus Combined)
Sight of Proteus (gender swap)
Shirley, John (SF) (gay, lesbian)
A Song Called Youth (aka Eclipse, Eclipse Penumbra, etc)
Dracula in Love (mutated sexual bodies & hints of S/M)
New Noir (F) (midget sex, necrophilia, decapitation head-fucks, etc.)
Silverberg, Robert (SF/F)
At Winter's End (bisexual woman; twining?; voluntary conception)
Book of Skulls
The World Inside (SF) (highly urbanized, extremely hedonistic
society - procreation sacred, but homosexuality widespread)
The Majipoor Chronicles (instellarspecial sex; positive alternative)
Son of Man (sex changes, sex with tree)
Dying Inside (telepath enters minds of two participants in a
heterosexual sex encounter)
To Live Again (people record memories before death and later
download them into another person; gender swap)
Slonczewski, Joan (SF) (quite good)
A Door into Ocean (female society on a water planet; anarchy
fights back non-violently against empire)
Daughter of Elysium
Smith, Cordwainer (real name Dr. Paul Linebarger)
The Crime and Glory of Commander Suzdahl
(women die out; men survive by cloning)
The Instrumentality of Mankind, including "The Ballad of Lost
C'mell"
Smith, Thorne
Turnabout (sort of the original body switch story)
Spedding, (Alison) (F) (bisexual female protagonist in sexist and
homophobic society)
The Road and the Hills
A Cloud over Water
The Streets of the City
Spinrad, Norman (SF)
A World Between (accepted homosexual & lesbian minorities
and subcultures, some SM - satire on the 'war of sexes',
nicely done)
The Iron Dream (homosexuality, fetishism, fascist sexuality)
Child of Fortune (society where sex is a performance art; journey
of self-discovery of an adolescent wandering tantric artist)
The Void Captain's Tale (taboo sex between captain and the asexual
female navigator; same society as Child of Fortune)
Springer, Nancy
Larque on the Wing (straight turns gay, gay male couple)
Metal Angel
Apocalypse (secondary character is a transsexual man who has
become a woman and is in a lesbian relationship)
Stackpole, Michael A. (SF)
Blood of Kerensky Saga (incest caused by genetic engineering
and social conditioning)
Lethal Heritage
Blood Legacy
Lost Destiny
Stadler, Matthew
Landscape: Memory
Starhawk (F)
The Fifth Sacred Thing (straight, gay, bi, old, young, poly)
Walking to Mercury (prequel to Fifth Sacred Thing; bi-female
protagonist)
Sternberg, Elf (SF/F)
The Kennet Shardik stories, available on-line -- see
my home page, Friends section for a link to them
(many and varied sexualities, bdsm)
Aimee series (fantasy)
Steward, Jean (SF/F)
Return to Isis (heroic lesbian characters)
Stine, Hank
Season of the Witch (rapist is magically transformed into a
woman as punishment for his crime)
Stirling, S.M.
Marching Through Georgia
Under the Yoke (lesbians)
The Stone Dogs (first real treatment of homosexuality in
trilogy)
Snowbrother (rest of series see Meier and Wehrstein) (lesbian)
Sturgeon, Theodore (SF) (classic)
Venus Plus X (gender identity)
"The World Well Lost", _E.Pluribus Unicorn_
More Than Human
The Stars are the Styx (short story collection; several different
views on sexual relationships including a fantasy world
where the elemental number of humans who exist as one is
three, rather than two)
Godbody (messianic figure who embodies love to everybody,
male and female)
If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?
(culturally acceptable incest)
Some of Your Blood (eroticism/consumption of menstrual blood)
"The Widget, the Wadget and Boff" (EXCELLENT, gay character)
"Affair with a Green Monkey (SF, character presumed
gay and treated with condescending tolerance)
"The Sex Opposite", _E. Pluribus Unicorn_ (androgynous people
who reproduce by parthenogenesis)
Sukenick, Ron (F)
Doggy Bag (s/m, white slavery, hyperhetero)
Sumner, Mark (SF)
"Surrogate", _Writers of the Future #8 Anthology_
(protagonist is a man who makes his living by
"bodysitting" the bodies ofen through childbirth)
Swann, Thomas Burnett (homoerotic love themes)
How Are the Might Fallen
Green Phoenix
The Gods Abide
Sussex, Lucy
"My Lady Tongue", _My Lady Tongue & Other Tales_
(woman from a lesbian separatist colony who is seduced
by a male from outside the colony but who affirms her
lesbian sexuality)
Sweeney, Toni
"Variaition and Man", _Starry Nights III_ (gender-shifting)
Tan, Cecilia
Telepaths Don't Need Safewords (and other stories)
(b/d, s/m, bestiality - catalog available
on-line from Circlet Press)
Tarr, Judith (F)
Avaryan Rising: (high fantasy)
The Hall of the Mountain King (bi mercenaries)
The Lady of Han-Gilen
A Fall of Princes (two rival princes fall in love, one
eventually undergoes a sorcerous sex-change)
Arrows of the Sun
Spear of Heaven
Tem, Melanie (H)
Desmodus (bi- characters in matriarchal vampire community)
Tenn, William
The Seven Sexes (novella, out of print; multiple sexuality aliens)
Tepper, Sheri S. (innovative and interesting writer - quite good)
Side Show (SF) (hermaphrodites, incest)
True Game series: (F)
The Song of Mavin Manyshaped
The Flight of Mavin Manyshaped
The Search of Mavin Manyshaped
King's Blood Four
Necromancer Nine
Wizard's Eleven
Jinian Footseer
Jinian Dervish Daughter
Jinian Star-Eye
Northshore
Southshore
The Gate to Women's Country (men and women live separately)
Grass (controlled pop. growth, great human/alien sex scene)
Raising the Stones (several societies of varying sexual mores)
Thomas, T. Thomas (SF)
Crygender (futuristic stroy involving an artificially
created, ex-terrorist hermaphrodite)
Thomson, Amy
Virtual Girl (female robot discovers humanity and empathy.
Includes charity sex with transvestite and street
people sexuality)
Color of Distance (how our sex is viewed by aliens. :-)
Thurston, Robert (SF)
Battletech's Legend of the Jade Phoenix Trilogy (incest caused
by genetic engineering and social conditioning)
Way of the Clans
Bloodname
Falcon Guard
Tiptree, James (SF)
Starsongs of an Old Primate (short story collection)
"Your Haploid Heart"
"A Momentary Taste of Being"
Her Smoke Rose up Forever (short story col.)
"Your Faces, O My Sisters!"
"Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" (race of
lesbians/androgynes)
"With Delicate Mad Hands"
"The Screwfly Solution" (writing as Racoona Sheldon)
(aliens take over by alterning male sex drive)
"And I Awoke and Found Me He on the Cold Hill's Side"
(unpleasant consequences of human/alien sex)
"Mama Come Home" (female supremacy, violent rape of male by females)
Tonnies, Mac (SF)
Illumined Black anthology (varied weird future sex)
Turner, George
The Destiny Makers (central character affected by a pederastic
relationship with his adopted father)
Turtledove, Harry
The Videssos Cycle (three gay caracters, gay community)
The Lost Legion
The Legion of Videssos
Swords of the Legion
Vance, Jack (F)
The Green Pearl (second in Lyonesse trilogy - bisexual and
homosexual characters)
The Dying Earth (enslavement of male by female)
Varley, John
Gaea Trilogy: (SF/F) (bisexual woman hero; lesbian and gay char.)
Titan
Wizard
Demon
The Ophiuchi Hotline (SF) (lots of sex changes; more extreme
mods (lots of breasts, "electric testicles") are
popular on Pluto; a neuter person with both male and
female identities)
The Persistence of Vision (SF)
"The Phantom of Kansas" (Fox gets murdered several
times by her illicit male clone (and is restored from
backups) before they finally meet, have great sex,
and escape together to Pluto)
"Retrograde Summer" (Jubilant reveals to Timothy that
who he thought was his mother is actually his
father.
"In the Hall of the Martian Kings" (MOTSS relationship)
"The Persistence of Vision" (society with no
homosexuality taboo; no clear distinction
between sexual and nonsexual interaction; no
gender-marked clothes)
The Barbie Murders (a.k.a. Picnic on Nearside) (SF)
"Manikins" (only females are natural; maleness is the
result of a parasite)
"Beatnik Bayou" (sex changes)
"Lollipop and the Tar Baby" (Xanthia is Zoe's
clone/daughter/lover)
"Picnic on Nearside" (Fox's mom won't let him (born a
girl, raised as a boy) have another sex
change, even though his best friend Halo got one.)
Hall of the Martian Kings (SF)
Blue Champagne (SF)
Steel Beach (SF) (new, surgically-created sexes that never
catch on with the public; sexual orientations can be
unchanging or relative to the sex a person is at the time)
"Beatnik Bayou"
"Picnic on Nearside"
Vinge, Joan D.
The Summer Queen (F) (homosexual angst-ridden prince, other
homosexual characters)
Outcasts of Heaven Belt (SF) (multi-partner marriages)
Heaven Chronicles (SF) (women prohibited from many jobs due
to radiation hazards and lack of tech to preserve ovum
Psion
Cat's Paw (male bi? catman, some s/m hustling and different sex;
sequel to Psion)
Vinge, Vernor (SF)
The Peace War
Marooned in Realtime (lesbian main characters, Mrs. and Mrs.
Korolev; murder mystery)
(published together in Across Realtime)
Vonarburg, Elisabeth
The Silent City (metamorph heroine ina post-apocalyptic world,
reluctant mother/father to a new race; sort of prequel to...)
In the Mothers' Land (assumed lesbianism for women,
prescribed and ritualized herosexuality for men)
"In the pit" (bi male narrator meets metamorph)
"Band ohne Ende" (metamorph, f changes to m and thinks of
engaging in a gay (?) relationship with a woman)
Wagner, Matt (author and/or editor) (F comic) (recommended)
Grendel (in Mage comic)
Grendel (black/white/red series)
Grendel (color series)
Grendel: Warchild (lesbian characters)
Grendel Tales (lesbian protagonists in one story line)
The Aerealist (lgb characters)
Sandman Mystery Theatre (good, evil l/b women)
Weber, David (SF)
Honor Harrington series (sexual and racial differences are a
forgotten memory, 4000 years in future)
Wehrstein, Karen
Lion's Heart
Lion's Soul
Shadow's Son (with Shirley Meier and S.M. Stirling)
Weiss, Margaret (SF)
Star of the Guardians series (positive recurring gay character)
The Lost King
King's Test
King's Sacrifice
Weiss, Margaret and Tracy Hickman
Rose of the Prophet trilogy (positive gay characters)
Weiss, Margaret and Don Perrin
Robot Blues (transgendered character and a character who is almost
a transvestite and basically try-sexual (he'll try anthing :-)
Wilhelm, Kate
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
Willey, Elizabeth (recommended) (F)
A Well-Favored Man (gay/bi characters)
A Sorceror and a Gentleman (ditto)
Williams, Walter Jon
Aristoi (bisexual protagonist)
Hardwired
Wilson, Colin
The Space Vampires (was made into a bad movie)
The Schoolgirl Murder Case
The God of the Labyrinth
Sex Diary of a Metaphysician (sexual black magic/Aleister Crowley)
The Philosopher's Stone
Wittig, Monique
Les Guerillieres
Wolfe, Chris Anne (F/SF)
Shadows of Aggar (lesbian encounter)
Womack, Jack (SF)
Random Acts of Senseless Violence (protagonist is a pubescent girl
who is discovering she's a lesbian; cyberpunk)
Woolf, Virginia (classic, excellent)
Orlando (sex-changing across time - recently made into a
visually stunning movie)
Wyndham, John (SF)
Consider Her Ways (men wiped out...only women left on
the planet - all lesbians)
Wright, Helen (SF)
A Matter of Oaths (bisexuality is the norm)
Yolen, Jane (F) (good storyteller)
Sister Light, Sister Dark (gay themes)
White Jenna
Briar Rose (In the Fairy Tales series - excellent -
prominent gay character/gay experience under Nazis)
Cards of Grief (homosexuality)
Zelazny, Roger (very good author)
Lord of Light (characters switch sex as easily as bodies)
Creatures of Light and Darkness (love triangle; minor s/m)
"Come to me not in Winter's White" (with Harlan Ellison),
in _Partners in Wonder_ (bisexual female protagonist)
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