SF and Fantasy Alternate Sexuality Listing
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(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.
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:
Northrop Frye
Fredric Jamison
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
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"
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"
Fantasy & SF:
Anderson, Poul
Eutopia
Andros, Phil
Below the Belt % Other Stories
The Boys in Blue
Different Strokes: Stories
Roman Conquests
Stud: A Novel
Atwood, Margaret (SF)
The Handmaid's Tale
Baker, Sharon: (boy prostitute) (SF/F)
Quarreling, They Met the Dragon
Journey to Membliar
The Burning Tears of Sassarum
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
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
Lythande (cross-dressing lesbian protagonist)
Warrior Woman (very bad!) (F) (numerous lesbian characters)
Ruins of Isis (SF) (numerous lesbian characters)
Bujold, Lois McMaster (SF)
Shards of Honor (bisexual male protagonist)
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)
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)
Imperial Earth (protagonist is bisexual man)
Songs of Distant Earth
2010/2061
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,
The Fulfillments of Fate and Desire
Hermetech (protagonist is bi female; bi males)
Cooke, John Peyton
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)
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
Farmer, Philip Jose (bisexual vampires)
Image of the Beast
Blown
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
Gladney, Heather
Teot's War
Gomez, Jewelle
Haldeman, Joe
The Forever War
Hansen, Joseph
Dave Brandstetter series (mysteries?)
Harrison, Harry (SF)
Star Smasher of the Galaxy Rangers
Heinlein, Robert A. (SF)
I Will Fear No Evil
Stranger in a Strange Land (bisexual male protagonist)
Number of the Beast
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (?)
Time Enough for Love (bisexual incest, in an odd kind of way)
Friday (bisexual female protagonist)
Huff, Tanya
Fire's Stone
Blood Price
Blood Trail
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 Shepard)
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)
Logston, Anne (F)
Shadow
Shadow Hunt
Shadow Dance
Lynn, Elizabeth (F)
Chronicles of Tornor:
Watchtower
Dancers of Arun
Northern Girl
The Woman Who Loved the Moon (short story collection)
A Different Light (gay male protagonists)
"The Man Who Was Pregnant" (short story)
McCaffrey, Anne (SF/F)
Dragonrider series: (implications that 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
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)
McGehee, Peter
Minns, Eric
Island Boy
Moon, Elizabeth
Deed of Paksenarrion (pair of lesbians; homosexuality fairly
normal though uncommon, asexual heroine)
Moorcock, Michael
Gloriana (F) (detailed exploration of sexuality)
many, many SF novels which mention bisexuality in passing
Morrow, James
Nader, George
Chrome
Piercy, Marge (SF)
Woman at the Edge of Time (bisexual utopia)
Pohl, Fred (SF)
Gateway (bisexuality is the norm and concern of protagonist)
Pollack Rachel
"Black Rose, White Rose" (short story)
Reage, Pauline
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
Cry to Heaven
Exit to Eden (as Anne Rampling) (s&m)
Sleeping Beauty series (as A.N. Roquelaire) (s&m)
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
"When It Changed" (lesbian) (Ellison's _Dangerous Visions_
series)
The Female Man
Ryman, Geoff
The Child Garden
Scott, Melissa
Mighty Good Road (SF) (lesbian protagonist)
The Armor of Light (with Lisa Barnett) (F) (several gay males)
Silverberg, Robert (SF/F)
At Winter's End (bisexual woman; twining?; voluntary conception)
Slonczewski, Joan
Door into Ocean
Smith, Cordwainer
[title unknown!] (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
--- (second book of trilogy)
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)
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)
Tiptree, James (SF)
Starsongs of an Old Primate (short story collection)
Your Haploid Heart
A Momentary Taste of Being
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
Wehrstein, Karen
Lion's Heart
Lion's Soul
Shadow's Son (with Shirley Meier and S.M. Stirling)
Wittig, Monique
Lew Guerilles
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
White Jenna
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