Slonczewski, Joan    

Category: Alien society
Summary: An intelligent microbe race that can live symbiotically in other intelligent beings is colonizing the human race. Each colony of microbes has its own personality, good or bad. In some people, carriers, they are brain enhancers, but in others they are fatal.

Slonczewski, Joan    

Category: Alien society
Summary: Brother Rod and the Spirit Brethren run an orphanage on the inhospitable planet Prokaryon. Rod and others suspect that the planet's environment was artificially created, so when Proteus Unlimited, a greedy interstellar corporation, decides to terraform the planet, the search for the intelligences behind the environment becomes a race against time.

Slonczewski, Joan    

Category: Alien society
Summary: The Elysians have built floating cities in the oceans of Shora, which they share with the raft-dwelling, all-female, genetic-whiz Sharers (from A Door Into Ocean). When they hear rumors that the planet Urulan, home to a warlike society, has nuclear missles, they invite a translator from another planet to help them find out what's going on.

Slonczewski, Joan    

Category: Alien society
Summary: The water planet Shora is inhabited by the humanoid Sharers, an all-female species that lives on rafts and whose governing structure is based on consensus and non-violence. When humans come to Shora and try to dominate the Sharers, the Sharers resist in very interesting and sometimes amusing ways.

Slonczewski, Joan    

Category: Colonization
Summary: Foxfield is a quiet backward planet, home to a society of Quaker colonists. After a century of silence, Earth contacts them, offering technology to improve their lives. But the technology comes with a price, and with the threat of destruction if they refuse it. One of the Earthers who comes to Foxfield is, and she even shares an unexpected kiss with the main character.

Smith, Stephanie A.    

Category: Dystopian future
Summary: The citizens of the Oregon town Monkar come to realize that their children are subjects of an experiment that will ultimately allow them to escape their diseased surroundings by evolving "back" into the sea.

Spencer, Wen    

Category: Fantasy
Summary: In this tale of boy meets girl(s), gender roles are flipped. In this world that is reminiscent of the US Wild West, women are in charge, and men are kept at home to cook, clean, and take care of the children. The ratio of men to women is on the order of 1 to 10, so men are rare and precious and are closely guarded against kidnappers. It's a good read, like all of Spencer's novels. One of Jerin's new wives alludes to a past relationship with another woman.

Spencer, Wen    

Category: Alien invasion
Summary: Another of the tales of Ukiah Oregon, with just scant mention of his lesbian mothers.

Spencer, Wen    

Category: Near future
Summary: Third book in the series about Ukiah Oregon, a half-alien/half-human young man who was raised by wolves and then by lesbians and now is a private investigator caught in the middle of a war between alien body-snatchers, some of whom are trying to take over the earth and others who are trying to protect it. Writing is so-so, but the plot and characters are engaging, and I find all of these books enjoyable reads, which is why they get 3’s. Wen Spencer is a woman. Since this is the third in a series, the lesbian moms' role isn’t that big.

Spencer, Wen    

Category: Near future
Summary: Second book in the series about Ukiah Oregon, a half-alien/half-human young man who was raised by wolves and then by lesbians and now is a private investigator caught in the middle of a war between alien body-snatchers, some of whom are trying to take over the earth and others who are trying to protect it. Writing is so-so, but the plot and characters are engaging, and I find all of these books enjoyable reads, which is why they get 3’s. Wen Spencer is a woman.

Spencer, Wen    

Category: Near future
Summary: First book in the series about Ukiah Oregon, half-alien/half-human young man who was raised by wolves and then by lesbians and now is a private investigator caught in the middle of a war between alien body-snatchers, some of whom are trying to take over the earth and others who are trying to protect it. Writing is so-so, but the plot and characters are engaging, and I find all of these books enjoyable reads, which is why they get 3’s. Wen Spencer is a woman.

Spinrad, Norman    

Category: Far future
Summary: A planet where men and women are mostly equal (with a slight advantage to the women) becomes the site of an ideological war between the radical anti-male Earthers, and a society of scientists who believe that women are innately inferior to men.

Steele, Allen    

Category: Alternate history
Summary: In Steele's version of history, the US never stopped the space race. A crew is sent to dismantle nuclear arms on the moon, but there is a threat of sabotage and the first suspect in everyone's mind is the lesbian team member.

Sterling, Bruce    

Category: Dystopian future
Summary: Leggy Starlitz is a charismatic scam artist, who is manager of G-7, a Spice Girls copy band that he is promoting in third world countries. His estranged daughter suddenly appears, and he changes his life in order to be a real father. His ex-wife is a lesbian.

Stross, Charles    

Category: Science Fiction
Summary: The thing about the female homosexual behavior in this book is that it is sadomasochistic and stereotyped. If you can overlook the offensiveness of that stuff, it's a pretty good book.

Tepper, Sheri S.    

Category: Far future
Summary: On the planet Newholme, a virus kills 50% of baby girls. The resulting society is one where men manage the money, but women hold the keys to power through church, reproductive control, and their own short supply. There is one major lesbian character and one major gay male character.

Tepper, Sheri S.    

Category: Near future
Summary: A group of friends from college discover there is something very special about their old friend Sophy, who has disappeared mysteriously.

Tepper, Sheri S.    

Category: Fantasy
Summary: In the far future, women live in walled cities, and the men are banished outside the walls in military camps. One young woman falls in love with a soldier and leaves the city to be with him, only to discover that she had it a lot better at home.

Tiptree, James Jr.    Lesbian Author?

Category: Science Fiction
Summary: James Tiptree, Jr was a pseudonym for Alice Sheldon. Her stories are provocative and lyrical examinations of human nature, and of the role of women in American society.

Tiptree, James Jr.    Lesbian Author?

Category: Alien society
Summary: This is one of those novels where you can just tell that something bad is going to happen and as things move along you just want to scream at the characters to pay attention to what they are feeling because everything is getting all f*ed up.

Varley, John    

Category: Far future
Summary: Third novel in the series about the alien Gaea. I haven't read it in 10 years, so it is unrated.

Varley, John    

Category: Far future
Summary: Second novel in the series about the alien Gaea.

Varley, John    

Category: Far future
Summary: Titan (with its companion volumes, Wizard and Demon) tells the story of Cirocco Jones and the crew of the NASA spacecraft DSV Ringmaster as they meet, are changed by, and ultimately must fight Gaea, the living planet. Cirocco is bi.

Vonarburg, Elisabeth    

Category: Science Fiction
Summary: A lesbian couple plays a minor role. A gay man has a somewhat larger role. This is a story about a woman who notices that the world is subtly different from the way she remembers it and as her life becomes increasingly strange, she tracks down the source of the changes only to discover that the world is definitely not what it seems.

Vonarburg, Elisabeth    

Category: Far future
Summary: This is a future earth where only 3% of the population is born male, and there are very strict rules for how men and women can live their lives. Women form relationships with each other, but men are discouraged from doing so. Male-Female relationships based on love are unheard of.