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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.