Griffith, Nicola    Lesbian Author!

Category: Mystery
Summary: A continuation of the story of Aud (rhymes with proud), as started in the Blue Place. Not science fiction, but included anyway because Griffith does write SF sometimes.

Griffith, Nicola    Lesbian Author!

Category: Mystery
Summary: Aud Torvingen is a PI. During an investigation of an art-thief, she finds herself falling in love with Julia, an art dealer who is mixed up in the crime. Not science fiction, but since Griffith writes SF, included this anyway. Not a typical mystery novel, either.

Griffith, Nicola    Lesbian Author!

Category: Near future
Summary: Born into a wealthy family, Lore leads a life of privilege and power. Then she is kidnapped, but is shocked to discover her family isn't going to pay the ransom. She escapes, but into a world she is unequipped to handle. She is rescued by the street-smart Spanner, who teaches Lore to survive by exploiting the Net (and human) weaknesses.

Griffith, Nicola    Lesbian Author!

Category: Alien society
Summary: Men cannot live on the planet Jeep because of a virus that kills them. Women are changed by the virus so that they can communicate with the planet itself and give to birth to healthy, genetically diverse children without males. Marguerite Angelica Taishan is an anthropologist who makes the decision to expose herself to the virus so that she can study the society of women that has developed on Jeep since the original colonization effort.

Griffith, Nicola, Stephen Pagel, ed.    Lesbian Author!

Category: Short stories
Summary: Short stories with gay and lesbian themes. There's another Bending the Landscape for fantasy, and one for horror.

Grimwood, Jon Courtenay    

Category: Cyber-punk
Summary: Lesbian characters include the Pope (dead) and her lover who has been pretending to be her sister. The lesbian part is pretty small and comes at the end. Even so, it's an interesting romp of a book.

Grimwood, Jon Courtenay    

Category: Science Fiction
Summary: You find out at the very end that two of the main characters, Karo and Razz, were lovers. The rest of the book was a somewhat disjointed tale about the rise and fall of New Venice, a sovereign nation built on old tankers in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. I bought this at amazon.co.uk; there was no US distributer at the time.

Haldeman, Joe    

Category: Hard SF
Summary: By the end of the book, homosexuality is the norm, but the narrator isn't really comfortable with that.

Harpman, Jacqueline    

Category: Science Fiction
Summary: Forty women in a cage, underground. Guarded day and night by men who watch them with unceasing diligence, yet do not interact. The whip punishes any infraction of unwritten rules. There is no privacy. They are not allowed to touch. Or to commit suicide. They barely remember their lives before the cage, or the night they were captured. Who has imprisoned them, and why? How much time has passed? These are questions with no answers, so the women finally stop asking.

Then one day, something happens and everything changes. Or does it?

Harris, Anne    

Category: Bioengineering
Summary: Chango Chichelski is a “sport”--a mutant due to exposure to the growth medium of the GeneSys bioengineering vats. She falls in love with a fanged and four-armed sport named Helix.

Harris, Anne    

Category: Bioengineering
Summary: Magnolia, a runaway, is taken in by a wealthy designer of androids. She finds herself more or less trapped in his mansion in Siberia with the brilliant biophysicist Cid, a pair of dangerous bodyguards, and a strange, half-human creature who lives in the greenhouse pool.

Heinlein, Robert A.    

Category: Science fiction
Summary: Friday is an Artificial Person, struggling with what that means. Along the way, she finds love in unlikely places, has lots of sex, snd kills a few people who get in her way. did I mention that she has lots of sex? Mostly with men. Usually, when a woman expresses interest in her, Friday is willing, but not especially keen, on reciprocation.

Huff, Tanya    Lesbian Author!

Category: Military Science Fiction
Summary: Second “Valor” book by Huff. I liked the character of Staff Sgt Torin Kerr so much that I missed her for a few days after I finished the book. A quote from the book jacket about her: “As a heroine, Kerr shines. She is cut from the same mold as Ellen Ripley of the Aliens films.”

Huff, Tanya    Lesbian Author!

Category: Military Science Fiction
Summary: Very smart, tough heroine. All the characters were well-drawn. I definitely enjoyed the book. Huff is a lesbian. Most of her work is fantasy or Vampire-related, not SF.

Huff, Tanya & Alexander Potter, ed.    Lesbian Author!

Category: Military Science Fiction
Summary: A collection of short stories about women soldiers, warriors, vets, and recruits. The stories alternate between science fiction and fantasy.

Jablokov, Alexander    

Category: Space opera
Summary: Ambryn, one of the 3 main characters, is only shown having relationships with other women. During the course of the story she has one lover and runs into 2 ex-lovers and has one encounter that didn't turn sexual though she clearly wanted it to. So there were a total of 5 female characters who were lesbian or bi.

Kadrey, Richard    

Category: Science Fiction
Summary: The writing was okay, but the plot frustrated me because the main character kept doing stupid things again and again. Anyway, he's in a 3-way relationship with two women which is how the book ended up in this collection. Note: I purchased it from amazon.co.uk.

Koch, Polly    

Category: Science fiction
Summary: If you like experimental fiction, read this. If you don't mind a book with no discernible plot, this one's for you. If you like books where in a single paragraph a character can be in two times and places with no explanation about how the two are connected or why you suddenly jumped from one to the other, you'll like this one. If you like books where the description goes on and on and on and nothing substantial ever happens, you might enjoy this. If you are like me, though, you'll hate it.

Kress, Nancy    

Category: Science Fiction
Summary: One of the main characters, Gail, is an out lesbian. There was a lot of interesting stuff in the book, but I found it hard to really care about any of the characters.

Kress, Nancy    

Category: Science Fiction
Summary: Eighty teens in the United States go into mysterious comas, and when they awake they all say the same thing: "The pribir are coming."

Kress, Nancy    

Category: Alien society
Summary: Humans ship-wrecked on an alien planet are confined by the local inhabitants to be studied. Over the many years of imprisonment, the humans revert to a less civilized lifestyle. Includes a society of female soldiers who eschew the company of men.

Larbalestier, Justine    

Category: Short stories
Summary: A mix of stories and lit crit that examines the history and role of women in science fiction, starting in the pulps of the 1920s. The stories chosen for the collection are all excellent and the articles about them are okay. I was pretty surprised at what some women were writing in the thirties and fifties.

LeGuin, Ursula    

Category: Science Fiction
Summary: Sutty is a lesbian, living on an Earth governed by religious zealots. She decides to join the interstellar Ekumen as an Observer. On the planet Aka, her first posting, she discovers that the government is attempting to wipe out “the Telling,” the culture of the majority of citizens.

Leigh, Stephen    

Category: Colonization
Summary: Takes place on the same planet as Dark Water's Embrace. The colonists had been dealing with physical mutations and birth defects among themselves, then an uneasy coexistence with the Miccail, an indigenous tri-gendered intelligent species. Then they realize that some of the birth defects are actually part of the evolution of a third human sex: the Sa, or midmale.

Leigh, Stephen    

Category: Colonization
Summary: The colony on Mictlan is experiencing problems with reproduction. Babies are being born deformed. Every woman is pressured to become pregnant for the good of the colony, including the hapless Anais Koda-Levin, who has a sexual deformity.