Dedman, Stephen    

Category: Near future
Summary: The main character starts out as a guy but is swapped into a woman's body. The woman in question happens to have been a lesbian and he continues having relationships with women. Has a good start but the end isn't as strong.

Disch, Thomas M.    

Category: Dystopian future
Summary: The character Shrimp is a lesbian, but Disch doesn't make a big deal of it and it isn't stated outright until 40 or so pages before the end of the book. Before that you think she might be bi.

Dorsey, Candas Jane    Lesbian Author?

Category: Near future
Summary: An unusual household of artists (of various sexualities) becomes the refuge of a space alien fleeing the US government.

Dorsey, Candas Jane    Lesbian Author?

Category: Science Fiction
Summary: The story follows five generations of women--from the monumental, sadistic despot to her great-great-granddaughter working in a warehouse--through their travels away from and toward one another. Every kind of sexuality imaginable.

Duchamp, L. Timmel    Lesbian Author!

Category: Alien invasion
Summary: The Marq’ssan come to Earth to teach humanity to change, become less violent and hierarchical. Kay Zeldin, a historian with former ties to “the Company” is recruited by her old nemesis to be one of the USA’s negotiators.

There are a lot of lesbian characters. I thought the book needed another draft or two. This is the first of five books in the Marq’ssan cycle. Available from the publisher: Aqueduct Press (http://aqueductpress.com), who specializes in feminist science fiction.

Elliot, Jeffrey M., ed.    

Category: Short stories
Summary: Collection of gay and lesbian science fiction stories. It’s an older anthology, when there was less queer sci-fi around, and I’d already read most of the lesbian stories elsewhere.

Eskridge, Kelley    Lesbian Author!

Category: Science fantasy
Summary: These stories aren't really science fiction, but there's a touch of it here and there, and some fantasy. Mostly they are just fantastic pieces of writing. Even though there's a link to Amazon, you should buy this through the publisher, Aqueduct Press at http://www.aqueductpress.com.

Eskridge, Kelley    Lesbian Author!

Category: Science fiction
Summary: Excellent novel with a dyke heroine. Ren Segura, Jackal to her friends, is convicted of a terrorist act she did not commit. As punishment, she is sentenced to an experimental, virtual solitary confinement program. Eskridge is Nicola Griffith's partner.

Farrell, Matthew    

Category: First contact
Summary: Thunder Rift is an artificially created wormhole. Taria, an anthropologist, is one of the first to go through to find out what waits on the other side. Matthew Farrell is a pseudonym for Stephen Leigh, who often writes about gay/lesbian characters and issues.

Finch, Sheila    Lesbian Author?

Category: Science Fiction
Summary: Four incarnations of one woman in four alternate realities struggle to find balance in their lives. One of the major characters calls herself a lesbian, but acts bi.

Flynn, Michael    

Category: Science Fiction
Summary: The world learns that a rock big enough to obliterate Manhattan is six years from impact. Interestingly, this rock hasn't wobbled off from the Asteroid Belt but seems to have been aimed. A lesbian was one of the trainees; made a pass at the main character.

Forbes, Caroline    Lesbian Author!

Category: Science Fiction
Summary: Science fiction stories from a lesbian feminist perspective. Some I liked better than others. The writing was good.

Forbes, Edith    

Category: Cyber-punk
Summary: Characters discover they are virtual and that they can change bodies at will. Both use both M & F, but both prefer F.

Fowler, Karen Joy, Pat Murphy, Debbie Norkin & Jeffrey D. Smith, Ed.    

Category: Short stories
Summary: Truthfully, the stories didn't do a lot for me in this anthology, but it is a good bit of history about how the Tiptree Award started. Joanna Russ and Suzy McKee Charnas, both out lesbians, have essays in the collection as well. Russ, in her essay, states that Tiptree/Sheldon was a lesbian, just one who'd never dared to have a love affair.

Freireich, Valerie J.    

Category: Science Fiction
Summary: In the Polite Harmony of Worlds, Testament, a small planet ruled by Matriarchal clans, is in quarantine because of the genetically modified Altereds. All of Freireich's books are good.

Gardner, James Alan    

Category: Science Fiction
Summary: Faye Smallwood is a member of the Vigil, a group of independent monitors charged with rooting out government corruption. Faye becomes the target of unknown assassins in a sinister conspiracy that threatens to unleash a deadly virus on the planet. Main character is bi. There's a lesbian romance too. Gardner usually has strong female characters in his novels.

Gardner, James Alan    

Category: Alien society
Summary: Novel about people who have to choose their biological sex after trying both out during their childhoods, and what happens when one person wants to be both.

Gerrold, David    

Category: Science Fiction
Summary: A man who can move through time and dimensions ends up having relationships with other versions of himself. But when he meets a female version of himself (who'd been having relationships with other female versions) he finds that relationship superior to the same sex ones.

Gilman, Carolyn Ives    Lesbian Author?

Category: Far future
Summary: Val, an expert in alien cultures, is amazed to discover that a class of neuter humans, known as “blands,” exists on a far-off world, and is dismayed to find out from Tedla, the first bland to ever escape its home planet, the terrible conditions the blands endure.

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins    

Category: Utopia
Summary: Set just before World War I, the story concerns an all-female society that is discovered by three male explorers. I haven't read it in 20 years, so it is unrated.

Gotlieb, Phyllis    

Category: Alien society
Summary: Minor lesbian character, plus a race of all female beings.

Gotlieb, Phyllis    

Category: Alien society
Summary: Very dark, weird science fiction. One of the major characters is bi, another is a lesbian.

Gould, Steven    

Category: Fantasy
Summary: The dykes are these 2 strong women in his society. One's a great martial artist. Gould often includes gay characters in his novels and is married to Laura J. Mixon, who also has a few novels in this list.

Greenland, Colin    

Category: Science Fiction
Summary: Tabitha Jute is an awesome heroine. She can not only pilot spaceships, she can repair them after crash landings as well. She’s smart and brave and very human. I liked her a lot. I hated the main male character, however, which it made it hard to read the book. Tabitha didn’t care much for him either, and I liked the book much better after she abandoned him on Venus.

Griffith, Nicola    Lesbian Author!

Category: Science Fiction
Summary: Three stories by Nicola Griffith: "Touching Fire, "Song of Bullfrogs, Cry of Geese, and "Yaguara." Very good. All have lesbian protagonists. Published by Aqueduct Press, who specializes in feminist science fiction: http://aqueductpress.com.