Date: Sat, 6 May 1995 16:50:42 GMT From: moh2@quads.uchicago.edu (Kateri/Mary Anne) Alternative Sexualities in Fantasy and SF List All comments and critique welcome. I'm looking for: - additional listings (either new or forgotten) - other books by the authors listed - comments on content or quality (short, please) - anything else you can think of that would be useful Note: Not all renderings of alternate sexualities in these texts are positive. Not all the books listed are fantasy/sf, though the majority are. ** PLEASE, EVEN IF YOU ONLY RECOMMEND OR CORRECT SOMETHING, ** ** LET ME KNOW IF IT'S FANTASY OR SCIENCE FICTION! ** Many, many thanks...I'm sorry I can't thank you all personally. I'll keep posting updated lists every once in a while, and the most updated version will be available on my web page: http://mud.bsd.uchicago.edu/~mohanraj/home.html. - Mary Anne *** 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 Delany, Samuel R. The Jewel-Hinged Jaw (contains a critique of LeGuin's The Dispossessed) Frye, Northrop Jamison, Frederick MAGAZINES: 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 Galaxy Varley's "Eight Worlds" stories - mid-to-late 70s Asimov's Varley, John - "The Barbie Murders" - Feb 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 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 Calder, Richard - "Mosquito" - Jul 1990 Penthouse Ellison, Harlan - "Erotophobia" - 1981 Playboy Heym, Stefan - "The Wachsmuth Syndrome" - Sept 1972 Wavelengths - Scott, Melissa, Ed. - journal reviewing new GLB F/SF/H ANTHOLOGIES: Baen, Jim - New Destinies IX Flynn, Michael - "Werehouse" - Fall 1990 Editor Unknown - Anthology Unknown Bickel, Bill - "The Widow and the Body Sitter" (body swapping) Busby, F.M. - Getting Home Busby, F.M. - "Road Map" (body swapping) - "Getting Home" (body swapping) Carr, Terry - Universe 9 & 10 Varley, John - "Options" Busby, F.M. - "First Person Plural" Clute, John, David Pringle, and Simon Dunsley - 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" 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" Gibson, William - Burning Chrome (also contains transgendered character) Gibson, William & Shirley - "The Belonging Kind" Keesey, Pam, ed. - Daughters of Darkness: Lesbian Vampire Stories (10 stories) Knight, Damon - Orbit 9 Wilhem, Kate - "The Infinity Box" 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) Scortia, Thomas - Strange Bedfellows Carlson, W. - "Dinner at Helen's" 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 (H) Hot Blood (trilogy of erotic horror - some vampire, some contemporary; supernatural elements) Hotter Blood Hottest Blood - plus several short stories 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 (incredibly homophobic - bad guys are all gay and automatically pederasts; otherwise, excellent hack & slash, sword & sorcery books) Aldiss, Brian (SF) Helliconia Trilogy (sex with subhumans, living phallus?) The Male Response (novella) Allan, Margaret (pseudonym for W.T. Quick) (F) Keeper of the Stone (casual male/male scenes) The Last Mammoth 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) 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) 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) Baker, Sharon: (boy prostitute) (SF/F) Quarreling, They Met the Dragon Journey to Membliar The Burning Tears of Sassurum Ballard, J.G. Crash! The Atrocity Exhibition 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 Imajaica (oddly-gendered major character) Barnes, Steven (SF) Gorgon Child (hermaphrodites?) Streetlethal Barr, Douglas (SF) Space Relations (S/M, slavery - very funny) Barrus, Tim Genocide (short story collection) 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) Gossamer Axe (bisexual woman searching for bisexual lover) Strands of Starlight (bisexual characters in this series) Maze of Moonlight Shroud of Shadow (depressing as hell) 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) 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.) Boyd, John (SF) Sex and the High Command (males are made obsolete) 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) Brin, David (SF) (good author) Glory Season (females can clone with male 'spark') Brite, Poppy Z. (F) Lost Souls (vampire book with elements of bisexuality) Drawing Blood (haunted house novel with gay protagonists) Brunner, John Stand on Zanzibar (SF, "Homosexuality tolerated, ambivalence taken for granted" in 'developed' countries - classic, longish, standard JB) Bujold, Lois McMaster (SF) Shards of Honor Barrayar 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) Bull, Emma (excellent author - recommended) War for the Oaks (F) Bone Dance (hermaphrodite protagonist) Falcon 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 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) trilogy (aliens transform our race - very good) Dawn Adulthood Rites Imago "Bloodchild" in _Asimov's_ (man impregnated by alien) Patternmaster Mind of My Mind Survivor Wild Seed Cadigan, Pat "Pretty Boy Crossover" (somewhere in Asimov's) Calder, Richard Dead Girls (*weird* sexuality) Califia, Pat (SF) (lesbians +; pretty intense) Doc & Fluff Macho Sluts (collection) Card, Orson Scott (SF) Songmaster (homosexual pederasty) Hart's Hope (F) (rape) The Ender Books Ender's Game (excellent) Speaker for the Dead (likewise) Xenocide (interesting, but weak ending, I thought) The Tales of Alvin Maker Lost Boys (child molester) Treason Carter, Lin (F) Tara of the Twilight Chalker, Jack L. (gender-changing) Changewinds series: (SF/F) When the Changewinds Blow 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) 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...) Charnas, Suzy McKee (F) Motherlines (tribe of lesbian horsewomen face off the patriarchy) Walk to the End of the World Cherryh, C.J. (SF) (bisexual characters - political handicap) Cyteen trilogy (only a trilogy in US paperback edition) Rusalka Chernevog Yvgenie 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) 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 (author of _The Joy of Sex_) Tetrarch (land of polybi semi-immortals who are forever children-just-enough-past-puberty-to-have-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) Cooke, John Peyton Cooper, Edmund (SF) Seahorse in the Sky (minor gay character) Delany, Samuel (highly recommended) Babel-17 (SF) Dhalgren (SF) (explicit bisexual scenes, alternative lifestyles, gay leatherman, s/m) Hogg (F) (s/m, rape, wilding, gay, not for the faint of heart) The Jewels of Astor 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) 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 on Water (autobiography) Heavenly Breakfast (autobiography) 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 (forthcoming) Wizardry series (juvenile, gay male couple - highly recommended) So You Want to Be a Wizard Deep Wizardry High Wizardry A Wizard Abroad 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) 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) 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) 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) Finch, Sheila Infinity's Web Foglio, Phil XXXenophile (adult comic book) Forrest, Katherine Dreams & Swords Daughters of the Coral Dawn Foster, Alan Dean - Star Trek Log Ten "The Procrustean Petard" (novelization of episodes with added material; in one part, Kirk, Spock, Sulu and Uhura are involved in a tranpsorter accident and minds and bodies get switched - not so serious; very funny! :-) Foster, M.A. (SF) The Morphodite (body shifting) 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) 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) Gladney, Heather Teot's War Goldstein, Lisa (historical fantasy, set in Shakesperean times) Strange Devices of the Sun and Moon (excellent book, winner of the American Book Award) (homosexual protagonist - Kit Marlowe, and other mentions) Gomez, Jewelle The Gilda Chronicles Gravel, Geary (SF) Return of the Breakneck Boys (secondary character is a gay man with AIDS) Griffith, Nicola (SF) Ammonite (lesbian - won this year's Lambda Literary Award and the 1994 James Tiptree Jr. Award for best examination of gender) Slow River "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 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 Winterlong (quite good) Hansen, Karl. "Dreams Unwind." _The Seventh Omni Book of Science Fiction_. Harrison, Harry (SF) Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers "Final Encounter" (character from an exclusively male society) Heinlein, Robert A. (SF) 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 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) 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 Hughart, Barry (F) The Bridge of Birds (excellent novel) The Story of the Stone Eight Skilled Gentlemen Huff, Tanya (F) Fire's Stone (homosexuality) Blood Price (bi male vampire) Blood Trail (as above) Child of the Grove The Last Wizard Jennings, Gary Raptor (hermaphrodite protagonist) Aztec (lesbian and bisexual scenes) Johnson, Toby Secret Matter (homosexuality in aliens) (won Lambda Literary Award) 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 Keegan, Mel Death's Head (gay men) Equinox (gay) 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 Kress, Nancy (SF) An Alien Light (bi alien woman warrior) Kushner, Ellen (F) (recommended) Swordspoint (bisexual man and gay man) Thomas the Rhymer (no bi or gay content, but a great book) Lackey, Mercedes (F) (popular fantasy) Arrows trilogy: (gay characters) Arrows of the Queen Arrow's Flight Arrow's Fall Last Herald-Mage trilogy: (gay protagonists) Magic's Pawn Magic's Promise Magic's Price Oathbound Oathbreakers Winds of Fate Winds of Change Winds of Fury Storm Warning Knight of Ghosts & Shadows (with Ellen Guon) (triple) Summoned to Tourney (with Ellen Guon) (sequel to _Knight_) Diana Tregarde series: (pagan witch) 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) Laidlaw, Marc (SF) Dad's Nuke (gay protagonist) 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) 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) Littell, Jonathan (cyberpunk) Bad Voltage (gay male protagonist) Logston, Anne (F) Shadow Shadow Hunt Shadow Dance 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) Maine, Charles Eric Alph (SF) (parthnogenetically reproducing all-female society) Marks, Laurie J. Delan the Mislaid (a world with race of hermaphrodites) The Moonbane Mage Ara's Field The Watcher's Mask (different world; no LBG content) 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) 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 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) McGregor, Loren (F) The Net (lesbian, gay and bi characters) McHugh, Marueen F. (SF) China Mountain Zhang (gay protagonist, positive portrayal, and a damn good read besides) 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) 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) Mezo, Francine (female protagonist with alien humanoid) 3 book series - titles unknown 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) 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) many, many SF novels which mention bisexuality in passing Adventures of Catherine Cornelius and Una Persson in the 20th Century (SF) Moran, Daniel Keyes (SF) The Long Run Emerald Eyes The Armageddon Blues The Last Dancer 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) Morrow, James Nader, George Chrome Niven, Larry (SF) (recommended) Ringworld (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. 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') 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) 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) 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) Pollack Rachel (F) "Black Rose, White Rose" (short story) Temporary Agency (lesbian relationship) Pynchon, Thomas 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) Resnick, Mike Tales of the Velvet Comet (galactic brothel) Eros Ascending Eros at Zenith Eros Descending Eros at Nadir 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) 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 Time Pressure (scared butch men discovering bisexuality) 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 and Kevin J. Anderson (H/F) Afterimage (gender shift) Russ, Joanna The Female Man 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) 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) 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 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) Door into Ocean (female society on a water planet; anarchy fights back non-violently against empire) Smith, Cordwainer The Crime and Glory of Commander Suzdahl (women die out; men survive by cloning) 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 A World Between (SF, accepted homosexual & lesbian minorities and subcultures, some SM - satire on the 'war of sexes', nicely done) Stadler, Matthew Landscape: Memory Starhawk The Fifth Sacred Thing (straight, gay, bi, old, young, poly) 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) (gay author) Venus Plus X (gender identity) "The World Well Lost", _E.Pluribus Unicorn_ More Than Human 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) Sukenick, Ron (F) Doggy Bag (s/m, white slavery, hyperhetero) 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) 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 Raising the Stones Thomas T. Thomas (SF) Crygender (futuristic stroy involving an artificially created, ex-terrorist hermaphrodite) 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 Read? With Delicate Mad Hands Turner, George The Destiny Makers (central character affected by a pederastic relationship with his adopted father) Vance, Jack (F) The Green Pearl (second in Lyonesse trilogy - bisexual and homosexual characters) Varley, John Gaea Trilogy: (SF/F) (bisexual woman hero; lesbian and gay char.) Titan Wizard Demon The Ophiuchi Hotline (SF) (sex change) The Persistence of Vision (SF) The Barbie Murders (SF) Hall of the Martian Kings (SF) Blue Champagne (SF) Steel Beach "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 (Mrs & Mrs Korolev are married lesbians) Marooned in Realtime (lesbian main characters; murder mystery) (published together in Across Realtime) Vonarburg, Elisabeth In the Mother's Country (assumed lesbianism for women, prescribed and ritualized herosexuality for men) 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) (one of the better of their less-than-impressive series) Wilhelm, Kate Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang 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 The Philosopher's Stone Wittig, Monique Les Guerillieres Wolfe, Chris Anne (F/SF) Shadows of Aggar (lesbian encounter) 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) ***** Respond to moh2@midway.uchicago.edu -- Now the proud owner of a Web page - http://mud.bsd.uchicago.edu/~mohanraj/home.html - Come visit! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Or check out Bosphorus Books - http://mud.bsd.uchicago.edu/~mohanraj/books.html