SF and Fantasy Alternate Sexuality Listing ------------------------------------------
NEW NOTE: My paper is due Monday. If anybody knows in what Arthur C. Clarke book he mentions orbitl satellites, please e-mail me title, and, if possible, bibliographic information. MANY MANY THANKS!
(All comments and critique welcome. I'd appreciate any comments on the books
listed here, any additional books by these authors, regardless of
sexual content, and anything you may have forgotten or assumed
somebody else would recommend 
. In addition, I'm also looking for
more non-positive renditions of alternate sexuality in fantasy…feel
free to send me SF too and I'll add it to the list even though I may
not use it for my paper. I don't have time to read all of these, so
I'm relying on your comments. Not everything listed here may be sf/f.
Please, if you recommend something, 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 couple of weeks.)
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Garber, Eric & Lyn Paleo
Uranian Worlds: A Reader's Guide to Alternate Sexuality in Science Fiction and Fantasy
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
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
ANTHOLOGIES:
Baen, Jim - New Destinies IX Flynn, Michael - "Werehouse" - Fall 1990
Carr, Terry - Universe 9 & 10 Varley, John - "Options" Busby, F.M. - "First Person Plural"
Datlow, Ellen - Alien Sex Baker, Scott - "The Jamesburg Incubus"
Decarnin, Camilla - Worlds Apart: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Science Fiction and Fantasy
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 Foster, Alan Dean - Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves Lynn, Elizabeth - "The Man who was Pregnant"
Knight, Damon - Orbit 9 Wilhem, Kate - "The Infinity Box"
Rusch, Kristine Kathryn - Pulphouse3 Brennert, Alan - "the Third Sex"
Salmonson, Jessica Amanda - Amazons! & Amazins II Tomoe Gozen series
Sargent, Pamela - Bio-Futures LeGuin, Ursula K. - "Nine Lives"
Scortia, Thomas - Strange Bedfellows Carlson, W. - "Dinner at Helen's"
Torgeson, Ray - Chrysalis 1 Lynn, Elizabeth - "The Man Who was Pregnant"
ed (?) - Interzone 2 Gibson, William - "The Brains of Rats" (bisexual transvestite)
ed (?) - Burning Chrome Gibson, William & Shirley - "The Belonging Kind"
Fantasy & SF:
Anderson, Poul
Eutopia (short story)
Andros, Phil
Below the Belt % Other Stories The Boys in Blue Different Strokes: Stories Roman Conquests Stud: A Novel
Anthony, Piers (SF)
Trilogy: (threesome) Omnivore Orn Ox Pornucopia (bisexual (sorta) male protagonist, good for a laugh)
Aspirin, Robert (F)
Thieves' World series, ed. Myth series 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)
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
Barrus, Tim
Genocide (short story collection)
Baudino, Gael (F)
Dragon Trilogy (men changed into women - some become lesbians, some don't, some suicide) Gossamer Axe (woman searching for her lesbian lover) Strands of Starlight
de Berg, Jean
The Image
Bishop, Michael
Unicorn Mountain
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 The World Wreckers The Heritage of Hastur etc.... Lythande (cross-dressing lesbian protagonist) 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)
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)
Burroughs, William S.
The Naked Lunch
Busby, F.M.
Zelda M'Tana Breeds of Man
Butler, Octavia (aliens transform our race - surprisingly good) (SF)
Dawn Adulthood Rites Imago (out of print - if you know where to get a copy, please let me know!)
Cadigan, Pat
"Pretty Boy Crossover" (somewhere in Asimov's)
Califa, Pat (SF) (lesbians +)
Doc & Fluff Macho Sluts (collection)
Card, Orson Scott (SF) (author is rabidly homophobic)
Songmaster (homosexual pedastery) Heart's Hope (F) (rape) Ender's Game (excellent, despite author's prejudices) Speaker for the Dead Xenocide The Tales of Alvin Maker
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)
Cherryh, C.J. (SF) (bisexual characters - political handicap)
Cyteen trilogy (only a trilogy in US paperback edition)
Clarke, Arthur C. (SF) (recommended)
Imperial Earth (protagonist is bisexual man - bisexuality norm) Songs of Distant Earth 2010/2061 Rendezvous with Rama (gay couple)
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) The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit The Bewitchment of Love and Hate (out of print - if you know where to get a copy, please tell me!) The Fulfillments of Fate and Desire Hermetech (protagonist is bi female; bi males)
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) The Jewels of Astor Neveryona series: (F) 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) Triton (SF) 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
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)
Door into Fire Door into Shadow Door into Sunset Door into Starlight (forthcoming)
Elliot, Jeffrey
Fancher, Jane S. (trilogy with bisexual male protagonists)
Groundties Uplink Harmonies ofthe Net
Farmer, Philip Jose (bisexual vampires)
Image of the Beast Blown
Finch, Sheila
Infinity's Web
Forrest, Katherine
Dreams & Swords Daughters of the Coral Dawn
Franklin, Patrick
The Uncertainty of Strangers Sea Gift (short story)
Gearhart, Sally Miller
The Wanderground
Gerrold, David
The Man Who Folded Himself
Gibson, William (SF)
Sprawl trilogy Neuromancer Count Zero Mona Lisa Overdrive
Gladney, Heather
Teot's War
Gomez, Jewelle
The Gilda Chronicles
Haldeman, Joe (SF)
The Forever War (homosexuality the norm) Worlds Worlds Apart
Hambly, Barbara (cruel, insane gay character)
The Silent Tower The Silicon Mage
Harrison, Harry (SF)
Star Smasher of the Galaxy Rangers
Heinlein, Robert A. (SF)
I Will Fear No Evil (male becomes biseuxal female) Stranger in a Strange Land (bisexual male protagonist) 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 To Sail Beyond the Sunset
Herbert Frank (SF)
God Emperor of Dune (lesbians in the army ?)
Huff, Tanya
Fire's Stone Blood Price Blood Trail
Keegan, Mel
Death's Head (gay men)
Kerr, Katherine
Daggerspell Darkspell
Kushner, Ellen (F)
Swordspoint (bisexual man and gay man) Thomas the Rhymer (no bi or gay content, but a great book)
Lackey, Mercedes (F)
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 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)
Lee, Tanith
Flat Earth series (everyone is bi): Night's Master Death's Master Delusion's Master Delerium's Mistress Night's Sorceries Birthgrave trilogy (countries where homosexuality Stormlord is common)
LeGuin, Ursula K. (SF)
The Left Hand of Darkness (neuter alien, except during mating, when can be either sex; seminal work) The Dispossessed (some bisexuality)
Littell, Jonathan (cyberpunk)
Bad Voltage (gay male protagonist)
Logston, Anne (F)
Shadow Shadow Hunt Shadow Dance
Lynn, Elizabeth (F)
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)
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)
McCaffrey, Anne (SF/F)
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
McGeehee, Peter
McGregory, Loren (F)
The Net (lesbian, gay and bi characters)
McIntyre, Vonda N. (SF)
Starfarers (partnership of two men and a woman) Dreamsnake Transition Metaphase
Meier, Shirley
Shadow's Daughter (2nd book in series with S.M. Stirling) The Sharpest Edge (with Stirling) The Cage (with Stirling) Shadow's Son (with Stirling and Karen Wehrstein)
Meluch, R.M. (SF)
Sovereign (bisexual male protagonist)
Minns, Eric
Island Boy
Moon, Elizabeth
Deed of Paksenarrion (pair of lesbians; homosexuality fairly normal though uncommon, asexual heroine)
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)
Morrow, James
Nader, George
Chrome
Niven, Larry (SF) (recommended)
Ringworld (ritualized sex between species) The Integral Trees (lesbian warriors)
Piercy, Marge (SF)
Woman at the Edge of Time (bisexual utopia) He, She, & It (sexual relationship with android)
Pohl, Fred (SF)
Gateway (bisexuality is the norm and concern of protagonist)
Pollack Rachel
"Black Rose, White Rose" (short story)
Pynchon, Thomas
The Crying of Lot 49 V., A Novel Gravity's Rainbow Vineland Slow Learner (short story collection)
Reage, Pauline (not SF or F, but fascinating anyway)
The Story of O (I & II) (s&m, lesbians, slavery)
Rice, Anne (F)
Vampire series: Interview with a 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
Ridley, Philip
Crocodilia [publ: Brilliance]
Rivkin, J.F. (F)
Silverglass series: (two bisexual female protagonists) Silverglass Web of Wind Witch of Rhosthyl Mistress of Ambiguities
Robinson, Spider (SF)
Stardance Timepressure (scared butch men discovering bisexuality) Callahan's Lady Lady Slings the Booze
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
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)
Shirley, John (SF) (gay, lesbian)
A Song Called Youth (aka Eclipse, Eclipse Penumbra, etc)
Silverberg, Robert (SF/F)
At Winter's End (bisexual woman; twining?; voluntary conception) Book of Skulls
Slonczewski, Joan (SF) (good)
Door into Ocean
Smith, Cordwainer
The Crime and Glory of Commander Suzdahl (women die out; men survive by cloning)
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
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)
Sturgeon, Theodore (SF)
Venus Plus X (gender identity) "The World Well Lost", _E.Pluribus Unicorn_
Tarr, Judith (F)
Avaryan Rising: 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.
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 Grass Raising the Stones
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
Vance, Jack (F)
The Green Pearl (second in Lyonesse trilogy - bisexual and homosexual characters)
Varley, John
Gaea Trilogy: (SF/F) (bisexual woman hero) Titan Wizard Demon Opiuchi Hotline (SF) (sex change) The Persistence of Vision (SF) The Barbie Murders (SF) Hall of the Martian Kings (SF) Blue Champagne (SF) Steel Beach
Vinge, Vernor (SF)
Marooned in Realtime (lesbians) Across Realtime Peace War series (married lesbians)
Wehrstein, Karen
Lion's Heart Lion's Soul Shadow's Son (with Shirley Meier and S.M. Stirling)
Wilhelm, Kate
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
Wittig, Monique
Les Guirilleres
Woolf, Virginia
Orlando (sex-changing across time)
Wright, Helen (SF)
A Matter of Oaths (bisexuality is the norm)
Yolen, Jane (F)
Sister Light, Sister Dark (gay themes) White Jenna
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