Alternative Sexualities and Identities in Fantasy and SF Booklist

This is a list I started putting together in 1993, when I was in college, working on an English bachelor’s thesis on Samuel R. Delany.  At the time, it was difficult to find SF/F featuring non-straight sexuality.  I kept the list updated periodically through 2006, at which point it seemed not really necessary anymore, as we were seeing a massive increase in queer representation in the genre.  At this point, I’m leaving this document up primarily as a historical document; perhaps it will be useful as a starting point for those looking into the early days of alternative sexual writings in SF/F.

Most but not all renderings of alternate sexualities and identities in these texts are positive. Not all the books listed are fantasy/sf, though the majority are.

 – Mary Anne

Last updated June 13, 2006

 

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
• Turtledove, Harry – _The Great Unknown_ = April, May, June 1991

Blue Blood (2625 Piedmont Rd, #56332, Atlanta, GA 30324)

<DD
(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) – recentF & 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:

  By editor.

  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 American
  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
  • Hottest Blood
  • plus several short stories

  Gibson, William – Burning Chrome (also contains transgendered
  character)

  • Gibson, William & Shirley – “The Belonging Kind”

  Gomez, Jewel & Eric Garber – Swords of the Rainbow

  (gay/les sf anthology)

  Griffith, Nicola & Stephen Pagel

  • Bending the Landscape: Fantasy (anthology of 22 queer-themed stories)
    – winner Lambda
  • Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction – winner Lambda
  • Bending the Landscape: Horror (forthcoming 2000)

  Hayden, Patrick Nielsen – Starlight 2 (Tor, 1998)

  • Carter, Raphael – “Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation”
    (Tiptree award winner; regarding perception of
    gender; fascinating)

  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:

  Writer: Arthur H. Singer, story by Gene Roddenberry (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-Reared 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 mindfuck (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)

  • Apprentince Adept series (Brown Adept is a lesbian; there are cross
    species love affairs; the alien adept is trying to figure out what sex
    he/she is, and in “Unicorn Point”, there is a sexual game that ends in a
    rape)
    • 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
  • If I Pay Thee Not in Gold (by Anthony and Lackey) (has a succubus who
    changes from male to female after each sexual encounter)
  • also, many of the Xanth (F) novels deal with sexuality and
    relationships to one extent or another

  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)

  Aro, Hiroshi

  • Futaba-kin Change (Japanese manga about a boy who switches gender
    whenever he gets excited; his whole family does it)

  Ash, Constance

  • “Flower Kiss” – _Realms of Fantasy_, August 1998 (FGM in Wst
    Africa, within an African Cinderella frame. There is no
    Prince Charming to rescue her.)
  • “The Leopard’s Garden” – _Not of Woman Born: Reproductive Future_
    (post-cataclysmic future, in which the need for ‘Mother
    Africa’ by the males of the so-called developed world
    clash with the strategies of the African female clone
    groups who are replanting the mother continent).

  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)
  • Sacrament (gay protagonist; present day Earth with paranormal events)
  • Coldheart Canyon (bisexual male protagonist)

  Barnes, Steven (SF)

  • Gorgon Child (hermaphrodites?)
  • Streetlethal

  Barr, Donald (SF)

  • Space Relations (S/M, slavery – very funny)
    (a
    review)
  • A Planet in Arms

  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)

  Beaumont, Charles

  • “The Crooked Man” (in _Best of Beaumont_, male homosexuality; the
    story concerns a young man who is in love with a woman,
    which is forbidden — he and his girlfriend must meet
    surreptitiously (she in male disguise) and their offense
    is punishable by law, in addition being viewed as
    perverted, wrong, wicked, antisocial, etc…)

  Beckett, Terri and Chris Power

  • Tribute
    Trail
    (barbarian culture’s meeting with a more sophisticated
    civilization in a world where bisexuality is the norm;
    variations on love and the definition of family. The two
    main characters, both male, have a magnificent romance)

  Benchley,
  Chaz

  • Tower of the King’s Daughter (central male characters are gay)
  • Feast of the King’s Shadow (ditto)

  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)

  Berman, Steve

  • Trysts: A Triskaidecollection of Queer and Weird Stories (collection
    of 13 short stories all featuring gay and lesbian characters and themes,
    often with dark fantastical elements)

  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; another
    recommends it highly, noting that sex is treated
    realistically (fun, but with consequences). Obviously,
    mileage varies; read them and decide for yourself)
  • Witch Baby
  • Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys

  Blumlein, Michael (H)

  • X/Y (gender change) (odd book.)

  Bornstein, Kate and Caitlin Sullivan

  • Nearly Roadkill (both protagonists have fluid genders in
    cyberspace)

  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)

  Brust, Steven

  • Vlad Taltos books: (cross-species relationships)
    Yendi (suggestion of bisexuality)
    Agyar (bisexual woman)
  • Cowboy Feng’s Space Bar & Grills (“Hags disease”, implied to be
    AIDS)

  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
    A Civil Campaign (sympathetic female-to-male transsexual)
  • The Spirit Ring (F)

  Bull, Emma (excellent author – recommended)

  • War for the Oaks (F)
  • Bone Dance (neuter 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)
    • Children of the Mind
  • 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)
  • Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card

  Campbell, Ramsey (H) (gay characters)

  • The Face That Must Die
  • Incarnate
  • The Influence
  • Ancient Images
  • Silent Children

  Jacqueline Carey (F) – (bisexual female protagonist)

  • Kushel’s Dart (gay characters; dictated by fate, family, and the
    scarlet mote in her eye to serve aristocrats who desire a
    partner for their rougher S&M fantasies…while at the
    same time acting as a spy for her lord in his own
    game…and that’s just the beginning…)
  • Kushiel’s Chosen
  • Kushiel’s Avatar

  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)
  • Gay Fairy & Folk Tales: More Traditional Stories Retold for
    Gay Men

  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 I
      know who writes such alien aliens is O. Butler)
    • Invader
    • Inheritor
    • Precursor (protagonist begins a relationship with his female and very
      alien bodyguard)
    • Defender
    • Explorer
  • Chanur series (secondary species that has three sexes and whose
    members can, when put under stress, spontaneously change
    sex)
    • The Pride of Chanur (starts the series)

  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)

  • Thorn Boy (F) (gay male protagonist, some gay erotic content, set
    in same world as Constantine’s “Sea Dragon heir” trilogy)
  • 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
  • The Wraiths of Will and Pleasure
  • 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)

  The Chronicles of Magravandias (same universe as Thorn Boy, with

  bisexual and gay characters, and elements of incest)
  • Sea Dragon Heir
  • The Crown of Silence
  • The Way of Light

  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

  Dedman, Stephen

  • “Desired Dragons” (SF; Bisexual female protagonist), Alien Shores
  • “Tourist Trade” (SF; Bisexual male protagonist, Earth as
    alternative sexuality ghetto), Science Fiction Age, 9/96
  • “The Pretender” (F; Arthurian legend retold with gay Arthur and
    Galahad), Realms of Fantasy, 2/97, Mammoth Book of
    Arthurian Legend
  • “The War, On Drugs” (SF; lesbian enclave in war zone), Aurealis #19
  • “Transit” (SF; majority of humans hermaphroditic; teen romance
    between ‘maf’ and Muslim girl) Asimov’s SF, 3/98

  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

  Dorsey, Candace Jane

  • Black Wine (Tor ’97) (Tiptree Award winner)

  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)

  Duffy, Stella

  • Singling Out the Couples (Sceptre, 98) (subversive fairy tale)

  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

  Egan, Greg (SF)

  • Distress (deals peripherally with bio-engineered ‘gender migrants’
    – voluntary asexuality)

  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)
  • Arislan (SF, villain/anti-hero, a military leader who just
    conquered the world and decided to set up headquarters in the small town,
    is more or less bisexual and kept a boy/young man from the town as a sex
    slave/servant. The young man himself seems to more or less straight, but
    it’s all very vague)

  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

  Fletcher, Jane (SF)

  • The World Celaeno Chose (sf lesbian romance; women-only world, but
    not a utopia; tyrannical religious sisterhood)

  Flewelling, Lynn
  (F) (recommended)

  • Luck in the Shadows (bi protag, Kinsey 1)
  • Stalking Darkness (ditto, (very slowly developing romance between the
    two maleprotagonists))
  • Traitor Moon (open relationship between them)
    • Tamir Trilogy (trilogy deals quite heavily with sexual identity:
      protagonist is born female, but magicians disguised her as male due to
      political reasons; she herself didn’t know her real sex throughout much
      of the series):
    • The Bone Doll’s Twin
    • Hidden Warrior
    • The Oracle’s Queen
  • short story, “Raven’s Cut”, in _Assasin Fantastic_ anthology

  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)
  • The Ler novels (highly structured polyamory)
    • The Gameplayers of Zan
    • Warriors of Dawn
    • The Day of the Klesh

  Fox, Astrid (F)

  • Rika’s Jewel (a group of female Viking warriors — Ingrid’s crew
    — have set sail to fight the Saxons in Britain, and
    Ingrid’s young lover, Rika, is determined to follow
    them… Xenaesque historical fantasy full of sex, blood,
    magic and explicit lesbian prose)

  Fox, Brandon
  (F)

  • Apprenticed to Pleasure (gay erotic sword and sorcery fantasy)
  • Conjuring the Flesh (gung-ho gay; direct sequel to previous.
    Set in alternate late medireview period; evil sorcerers
    who
    serve a tyrant and use magic pased on pain; good mages
    whose magic is based on pleasure. Strong emotional
    involvement between the two protagonists.)
  • Sex Rites (concludes trilogy)

  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)

  Frontain, K.M.

  • The Gryphon Taint: Volumes One, Two, and Three (mmf sex scene in
    Volume Three)
  • Bound in Stone: Volumes One, Two, and Three (gay relationships, gay
    prostitution, and a mysterious collapse into pedophilia resulting in the
    murder of the pedophile in Volume One. Gay relationships, BDSM Volume Two.
    Bisexuality Volume Three)

  Gannett, Lewis

  • The Living One (F) (gay protagonist
  • Magazine Beach (SF) (bisexual secondary characters)

  Gardner, James Alan (SF)

  • Committment Hour (Annual sex changes for the children and
    adolescents of a backwater village on a backwater earth of
    the future. Hermaphrodites accepted in more advanced
    culture nearby. All adolescents know how to please both
    sexes, since they have been both male and female. Males
    and females are sometimes taken over by their other-gender
    “soul” while, among other things, enaging in sex. After a
    childhood and adolesence of switching sexes, the young
    adults of a future village must choose to be male, female,
    or both (Hermaphrodite and driven from the community) for
    the rest of their lives.)
  • Expendable, 1997

  Gearhart, Sally Miller

  • The Wanderground

  Gentle, Mary

  • Golden Witchbreed (SF) (children born asexual, without
    genitalia, until they reach puberty; 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 (bisexuals, pederasty)
  • Starsiders trilogy (teenage protagonist has a mother with a female
    partner, and a gay brother; treatment is age-appropriate and
    matter-of-fact — at the end, the brother and his boyfriend are planning
    to marry)
    • Jumping Off the Planet
    • Bouncing Off the Moon
    • Leaping to the Stars

  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)

  Goodkind, Terry (F)

  Wizard’s First Rule (lesbian relationship, bisexual characters,

  positive, ditto for the rest in series)

  Stone of Tears

  Blood of the Fold

  Temple of the Winds

  Soul of the Fire

  Faith of the Fallen (forthcoming August 2000)

  Gravel, Geary (SF)

  • Return of the Breakneck Boys (secondary character is a gay man
    with AIDS)

  Grey, Elorin Leighton (F)

  • The Charndras Book I: The Rising Dark, 2002
    (Male homosexuality. Villain and his spy are rumoured to be in a
    relationship (pedo references, because spy was 12 or 13 when entering the
    villain’s services). Slightly homophobic society. Also it is hinted at a
    future relationship between the hero and his best friend (elf).)
  • The Charndras Book II (coming soon)

  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)
  • The Blue Place (lesbian mystery novel)
  • Stay (sequel to The Blue Place)
  • “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 (co-editor with Stephen Pagel,
    anthology of 22 queer-themed stories)

  Grimsley, Jim

  Kirith Kirin (F) (gay protagonists, gay lovestory, nicely written,

  spellbinding)

  Haldeman, Joe (SF)

  • The Coming (major gay character; novel is gay-positive, though it
    is set in a near future that is strongly homophobic)
  • 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

  Hamilton, Laurell K. (F)

  • The Anita Blake series (s/m, leather, polyamory, necrophilia,
    bestiality (with were-animals), homosexuality,
    bisexuality, and pedophilia (portrayed negatively); page-turning,
    sexy, and thoroughly addictive — recommended)
    • Guilty Pleasures
    • The Laughing Corpse
    • Circus of the Damned
    • The Lunatic Cafe
    • Bloody Bones
    • The Killing Dance
    • Burnt Offerings
    • Blue Moon
    • Obsidian Butterfly
    • Narcissus in Chains
  • The Meredith Gentry series (more of the same, but more sex and
    fairies)
    • A Kiss of Shadows
    • A Caress of Twilight

  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.

  (website contains bio, biblio, essays, writiing-related articles, etc.)

  • 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) (same universe as Lightwing)
    • 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 bisexual 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 Weis/Hickman)

  Hobb, Robin

  • The Farseer Trilogy (trilogy)
  • The Liveship Traders (trilogy) (transvestite, homosexuality)
  • The Tawny Man (trilogy) (homosexuality)

  Holland, Cecelia

  • Floating Worlds (bi heroine) (SF)
  • Jerusalem (the rest are historical fiction, gay protagonists)
  • Hammer of God
  • City of Princes
  • The Antichrist

  Hoyt, Sarah (F)

  • Ill Met by Moonlight (a young Will Shakespeare tangles with the elf
    kingdom. A main character, Quicksilver the elf, can appear either as man
    or woman, and the female persona inspires Shakepeare’s Dark Lady
    love sonnets)
  • All Night Awake (sequel)

  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
    Keeper Chronicles: (female protagonist’s younger sister is
    lesbian/questioning; third book follows her POV; present-day Earth,
    supernatural events)
    • Summon the Keeper
    • The Second Summoning
    • Long Hot Summoning
  • Valor’s Choice (far future, military setting)
  • Better Part of Valor

  Huxley, Aldous (SF)

  • Brave New World (promiscuity compulsory, group sex has replaced
    communion, and children are encouraged by teachers to engage in sexual
    play with each other — note: this is meant to be a dystopia)

  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)

  Jones, Gwyneth

  • Divine Endurance (South East Asia far distant
    future, homosexual society, love between female
    revolutionary and living -doll gynoid)
  • Flowerdust
  • White Queen, (co-winner of first Tiptree Award) (Earth
    invaded and under rule of ambi-sexual aliens called
    Aleutians, intrasexes, same sex lovers, all kinds of
    strange goings on)
  • North Wind
  • Phoenix Cafe

  Jordan, Robert (F) (warning — I ended up throwing the 7th book
  against the wall, ’cause I got so frustrated with this series; poly
  situations, strong S/M undertones)

  • 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)

  Kasting, Peter

  • Journey of a Thousand Miles (near-future sf, very sympathetic gay
    protagonist, plot involves a commune based on Rawls’ “A
    Theory of Justice”)

  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

  Kermode,
  Jennie

  • The Orpheus Industry (SF) (bisexuality, a gay male relationship, a
    lesbian relationship (not explicit), mild sadomasochism and a degree of
    polyamory (not without its problems))

  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

  Kerr, Peg (F)

  • The Wild Swans (gay male protagonists)
    The Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale of the same name,
    retold two ways in alternating chapters: with a
    heterosexual couple during 17th century witchcraft
    trials, and with a gay male couple in 1980s, at the
    beginning of the AIDS epidemic.

  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)
  • Maximum Light (near future SF; deals with the effects of endocrine
    disrupters on fertility; gay male as one of three
    viewpoint characters)

  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)
  • Empery (lesbian protagonist)

  Kushner, Ellen (F) (recommended)

  • Swordspoint (bisexual man and gay man)
  • The Fall of the Kings (with Delia Sherman) (set in the same world as
    Swordspoint but sixty years after the events thereof. Fantasy, homosexual
    and bisexual characters, reccomended.)
  • 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)

  Landis, Geoffrey
  (SF)

  • Mars Crossing (the first astronaut on Mars is a gay man)
  • “Across the Darkness” (lesbian astronauts on the first
    interstellar mission)

  Larson, Jeanne (F)

  • Bronze Mirror (12c China, bisexual threesome)

  Lee, Sharon and Steve Miller (SF, all set in “Liaden”
  universe; reader notes that the “female protagonist in “Conflict of
  Honors” had a lesbian affair and remained good friend with the
  lesbian ex afterwards, but ended up marrying a man. Despite that
  little flaw, however, I still highly recommend this series.”)

  • Local Custom
  • Scout’s Progress
  • Conflict of Honors
  • Agent of Change
  • Carpe Diem
  • Plan B
  • I Dare

  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)

  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)

  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

  Leigh, Stephen (SF)

  • Dark Water’s Embrace (Includes lesbian(forbidden) & straight sex.
    Due to a mutation forced by a highly toxic planet, men
    must have sex with a hermaphrodite, who then strengthens
    and ejaculates that man’s sperm while having sex with a
    woman. This holds true for both humans and an older race
    on the planet.)
  • Slow Fall to Dawn, 1981
  • Dance of the Hag, 1983
  • Quiet of Stone, 1984
  • Bones of God, 1986
  • Crystal Memory, 1987
  • Secret of the Leona, 1988
  • Changeling: Robots and Aliens Book 4, 1989
  • Abraxas Marvel Circus, 1990
  • Alien Tongue
  • Dinosaur Planet
  • Dinosaur Samaurai
  • Neweden Trilogy
  • (and, as Lee Stevens)
    • One Eyed Jacks
    • Jokertown Shuffle
    • Dealer’s Choice
    • Aces High

  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)
  • Dragon’s Winter (protagonist has a male lover)

  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)

  Mangels, Andy and Michael A. Martin

  • Star Trek The Next Generation: Section 31: Rogue (SF) (“Major focus on
    gay relationship between Lt Sean Liam Hawk and LtCmdr Ranul Keru. One of
    the only explorations of gay relationships in the Star Trek universe I’ve
    found to date. Also, it’s a good story!!”)

  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)

  McArthure, Maxine (SF)

  • Time Future (gay male couple, homosexuality regarded no
    differently from hetero relationships; positive
    portrayal; winner of the George Turner Prize and “a good
    sf read”; Australian author)

  McCaffrey, Anne (SF/F) (classic)

  • Dragonrider series: (implications that some green and blow 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
  • The Masterharper 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, Marueen F. (SF)

  • China Mountain Zhang (gay protagonist, positive portrayal, and
    a damn good read besides)
  • Half the Day is Night
  • Mission Child (Avon ’98) (Survival and work, and gender shifting
    undertaken to make them possible)

  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)

  Mindancer (aka
  C.A. Casey)

  • Tales of Emoria:
    • Future Dreams (lesbian couple protagonists)
    • Past Echoes (forthcoming Jan 01)

  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_ and _Best American Erotica:
    1999_ (also in Torn Shapes)
  • “Goddess Blessing”, in _Floating Worlds_ (ff)
  • “Kali”, in _Batteries Not Included_
  • “Season of Marriage”, in _Herotica 6_

  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.

  Niven, Larry, Jerry Pournelle, Michael Flynn

  • Fallen Angels (androgynous, suggestively lesbian villain;
    heterosexuality as sign of freedom and right-mindedness;
    women’s value as birthing machines)

  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.)
  • The Painter Knight
  • The Granite Shield
  • The Golden Sword

  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)

  Pinto, Ricardo (F)

  • The Chosen (gay protagonist and other gay characters)
  • The Standing Dead

  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)
  • Godmother Night (all three main characters are lesbians)
  • Doom Patrol (comic series featuring a transsexual lesbian
    superhero)

  Pullman, Philip (SF)

  • His Dark Materials
    The Golden Compass
    The Subtle Knife
    (third forthcoming)

  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

  Rawn, Melanie (F)

  • Exiles trilogy (gay and lesbian protagonists)

  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)

  Roessner, Michaela

  • The Stars Dispose
  • The Stars Compel

  Rohan, Michael Scott

  • Chase the Morning (minor bi character)

  Rosenberg, Joel (F)

  • Guardians of the Flame series: villains engage in slavery and rape.
  • Keepers of the Hidden Ways series
    • The Silver Stone: consensual father-daughter incest among
      aristocrats (not stated but strongly hinted).
    • The Crimson Sky: sexual relationship between human and Norse
      goddess, positively portrayed gay 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)

  Salmonson, Jessica Amanda

  • In her own words, author of “a goodly number of lesbian, gay, &
  • intersexual stories over the last twenty years.” She recommends:
  • “The Prodigal Daughter” (in Terri Windling and
    Mark Arnold, eds., ELSEWHERE I (Ace, 1981) World Fantasy
    Award anthology; & in Jeffrey M. Elliot, ed., KINDRED
    SPIRITS (Alyson, 1984). This novelette was the subject of
    an essay by Dr. Marlene Barr in FANTASY NEWSLETTER, 1981.)
  • Also check out her webpage, www.violetbooks.com, with essays on
    lesbian fantasists, among other things.

  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(ine?))
  • 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)
  • Point of Dreams (two male protagonists in Point of Hopes, finally
    together)
  • The Jazz (SF)

  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)

  Sizemore, Susan

  • Gates of Hell (culture has bisexuality as norm; primary romance is
    het)
  • Laws of the Blood (vampire series; bisexuality is the norm)

  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, inspiration for ST
    episode)

  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, Jean Marie

  • 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)
  • “God and Her Black Sense of Humour”, _My Lady Tongue…_
    (vampire groupies)
  • “The Queen of Erewhon”, _Fantasy and Science Fiction_ (might be
    described as the economics behind polyandry, and also a
    lesbian love story)
  • “Merlusine”, _The Horns of Elfland_, ed. Kushner, Sherman & Keller
    (lesbian love story, but also about fetishes – an
    attraction towards melanin deficiency, also a teratology
    fetish)

  Sweeney, Toni

  • “Variation and Man”, _Starry Nights III_ (gender-shifting)

  Takahashi, Rumio

  • Ranma 1/2 (Japanese manga about a boy who becomes a girl when
    doused with cold water; hot water changes him back)

  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)
  • Golden Globe (same universe, gender-bending)

  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)
  • A Deepness in the Sky (alien protagonists choose to breed out of
    season, and are labelled as perverts by their colleagues)

  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)

  Waitman, Katie (SF)

  • The Merro Tree (male protagonist in love with a male, snake-like
    alien; recommended)
  • The Divided

  Ward, Cynthia

  • “The Lost Homeland”, Bending the Landscape: Horror
  • “On the Last Day of School”, Asimov’s May 1997

  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)

  Weis, Margaret (SF)

  • Star of the Guardians series (positive recurring gay character)
    • The Lost King
    • King’s Test
    • King’s Sacrifice

  Weis, Margaret and Tracy Hickman

  • Rose of the Prophet trilogy (positive gay characters)

  Weis, Margaret and Don Perrin

  • Robot Blues (transgendered character and a character who is almost
    a transvestite and basically try-sexual (he’ll try anything 🙂

  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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