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.

Livia, Anna    Lesbian Author!

Category: Dystopian future
Summary: Portrays a future society where youth is paramount and when you turn 40 you are expected to kill yourself to make room for the young, But there is a cadre of old women, many of them lesbians, who are plotting to change society.

Morehouse, Lyda    Lesbian Author!

Category: Science fantasy
Summary: Sequel to Archangel Protocol, examining a different aspect of the universe she created there.

Scott, Melissa    Lesbian Author!

Category: Far future
Summary: Imagine the Roman Empire didn't collapse and its empire grew to encompass the stars.

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.

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.

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.

Mixon, Laura J.    

Category: Science Fiction
Summary: Manda is a clone like everyone else in her colony, but her twin clone died in vitro, so she is also, paradoxically, a singleton--and a loner. Her discovery of alien life brings both discord to the colony and a healing to her relationship to it. One of Manda's clones was in love with another woman.

Moroz, Anne    Lesbian Author?

Category: Space opera
Summary: The story is reminiscent of the Alien films. Deep space exploration crew encounters alien life form that takes over. Hero escapes in a lifeboat. Months later, she is rescued. The company she works for sends her back to bring home some of the life forms. The author is listed as a lesbian on the feministsf.org web site.

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.

Scott, Melissa    Lesbian Author!

Category: Alternate history
Summary: This is an alternate history about what would have happened to the world if Alexander the Great had not tried to invade India.

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.

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.

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.

Morehouse, Lyda    Lesbian Author!

Category: Science fantasy
Summary: Deidre McMannus has had her connection to the LINK, a worldwide virtual-reality interface, severed as punishment for a crime she did not commit. She finds that she is uniquely qualified to determine the truth of the rumors of “angels” in the LINK. The leader of the rebels is a lesbian.

Brojim, RC    Lesbian Author!

Category: Space opera
Summary: Dani Forrest is captain of the Boadicea, a ship in the Explora Command's Minority Fleet. This special fleet is where gay and lesbian personnel serve. A mysterious disease infects her crew, just when they are trying to investigate an interstellar incident.

McMahon, Donna    

Category: Dystopian future
Summary: Runaway Klale Renhardt learns to survive in the troubled Vancouver of the 22nd century. The Klon-dyke bar becomes her haven. Very solid characterization and plot building. Most of the sexuality stuff is “bent” in the book's terminology.

McArthur, Maxine    

Category: Space-based
Summary: Maria Halley commands the space station Jocasta. The station is under seige by an alien race no one can communicate with. The residents and refugees are hungry and tired of the blockade. The computer system keeps failing in mysterious ways. And the alien ambassadors of the Four Worlds are being anything but helpful. The last thing she needs is evidence that a tireless, viciously imaginative killer is on board the station.

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.

Marley, Louise    

Category: Alien society
Summary: Irustan is a planet dominated by an extreme religious fundamentalism. Men are in control, and women are property. But some women are trying to change the system. One main character is a woman passing as a man who is in love with the other main female character.

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.

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.

Leigh, Stephen    

Category: Alien society
Summary: Alien females had sex/relationships with each other and males were “animals.”

Lynn, Elizabeth A.    Lesbian Author!

Category: Space-based
Summary: Jimson Alleca, a painter, is going to die even though it is possible for a person to achieve immortality. By staying on his home world, he could live another thirty years, but instead he opts to search the stars for his lost love Russel, and perhaps find a cure for his illness.

Salmonson, Jessica Amanda    Lesbian Author!

Category: Fantasy
Summary: Story of the female samurai Tomoe Gozen in the mythical land of Naipon.