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Zeta Base (1991)
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Category: Far future
Summary: The Earth of the future is barely surviving, and power has migrated to the colonies. When one woman discovers that the Sun is dying, she has to fight disbelief at the highest levels of power to convince the world that Earth can be saved. Most characters are lesbians.
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Added on 9/26/2005
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Cognate (2000)
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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.
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Worlds Apart (1986)
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Decarnin, Camilla, Eric Garber, Lyn Paleo, ed. Lesbian Author!
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Category: Short stories
Summary: Short stories by gay and lesbian writers.
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Added on 7/27/1998
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Paradigm of Earth, A (2001)
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Category: Near future
Summary: An unusual household of artists (of various sexualities) becomes the refuge of a space alien fleeing the US government.
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Added on 11/22/2001
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Black Wine (1996)
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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.
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Added on 11/14/1998
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Alanya to Alanya (2005)
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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.
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Added on 1/13/2006
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Dangerous Space (2007)
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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.
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Added on 5/12/2007
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Solitaire (2002)
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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.
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Added on 10/27/2002
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Infinity's Web (1985)
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Finch, Sheila Lesbian Author?
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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.
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Added on 11/26/2002
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Needle on Full, The (1985)
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Forbes, Caroline Lesbian Author!
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Category: Science Fiction
Summary: Science fiction stories from a lesbian feminist perspective. Some I liked better than others. The writing was good.
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Added on 8/28/2004
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Halfway Human (1998)
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Gilman, Carolyn Ives Lesbian Author?
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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.
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Added on 1/1/1998
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With Her Body (2004)
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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.
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Added on 1/28/2006
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Stay (2002)
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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.
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Added on 11/10/2002
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Blue Place, The (1999)
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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.
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Added on 6/30/1998
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Slow River (1996)
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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.
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Added on 5/1/1996
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Ammonite (1993)
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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.
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Added on 5/1/1996
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Bending the Landscape:Science Fiction (1998)
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Category: Short stories
Summary: Short stories with gay and lesbian themes. There's another Bending the Landscape for fantasy, and one for horror.
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Added on 10/31/1998
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Better Part of Valor, The (2002)
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Huff, Tanya Lesbian Author!
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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.”
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Added on 2/12/2004
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Valor’s Choice (2000)
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Huff, Tanya Lesbian Author!
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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.
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Added on 2/8/2004
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Women of War (2005)
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Huff, Tanya & Alexander Potter, ed. Lesbian Author!
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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.
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Bulldozer Rising (1988?)
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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.
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Added on 5/15/2003
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Dragon's Winter (1998)
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Category: Fantasy
Summary: Magical fantasy about twin sons of the dragon king. One has the dragon's blood, but the other does not--though he'll do anything to have that power.
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Added on 11/29/1998
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Sardonyx Net, The (1985)
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Lynn, Elizabeth A. Lesbian Author!
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Summary: Slow start, but midway through got very, very good. In the far future, slavery is common. A starship captain becomes involved in a rebellion against it.
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Added on 6/30/1999
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Woman Who Loved the Moon, The (1984)
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Lynn, Elizabeth A. Lesbian Author!
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Category: Short stories
Summary: Short stories. I haven't read it in many years, so it is unrated.
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Added on 5/1/1996
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Northern Girl, The (1980)
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Category: Fantasy
Summary: Final book in the Tornor trilogy, this one with many lesbian characters. For 17-year-old Sorren, bondservant to city councilor Arré Med, the wanderlust of youth is fed by the need to learn whether the strange tower she sees in her dreams is a real place. Sorren determines to go north and find Tornor when her bond expires in a year.
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