Mitchison, Naomi    

Category: Dystopian future
Summary: Solution Three presents a future society in which reproductive control and homosexuality shape a more equitable life for all, eradicating aggression and racism, curbing overpopulation, and providing a dependable food supply. But there are those who are rebelling in this peaceful world.

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.

Mixon, Laura J.    

Category: Science Fiction
Summary: Carli D'Auber and her team of scientists are fine-tuning their invention of proxies--artificial bodies that people can upload into. Sometimes they wear proxies of a different gender and go out to get laid.

Mixon, Laura J.    

Category: Science Fiction
Summary: Ruby and Golem, her android, attempt to save a rich Egyptian from a collapsing skyscraper, but end up with more trouble than they bargained for. Ruby is a lesbian.

Morehouse, Lyda    Lesbian Author!

Category: Science Fiction
Summary: In some ways my favorite of the books in this series. The writing is really good. The one thing that makes me give these a lower rating than perhaps others would is the religious mythology informing the books. It’s just not an interest of mine. I’d love to see Morehouse do some “straight” sci fi.

Morehouse, Lyda    Lesbian Author!

Category: Science fantasy
Summary: Sequel to Fallen Host. One of the main characters is a lesbian.

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.

Morgan, Richard    

Category: Cyber-punk
Summary: Two minor female characters, Jadwiga and Kiyoka, are lovers. The book is the third in a series about Takeshi Kovacs, former Envoy for the Protectorate, now living a life of petty crime. The first two books give some background to this one. They are Altered Carbon and Broken Angels (both 4 stars, but no lesbians). This edition of the book is only available in the UK, so if you are interested, go to amazon.co.uk to check it out. He has another book out, better than the Kovacs novels in my opinion, called Market Forces.

Moriarty, Chris    

Category: Science fiction
Summary: In four hundred years, how will humans, post-humans, clones, and AIs coexist? This book explores those issues and throws in a bit of spy thriller and myrmecology and terraforming and complexity theory and more. Very dense, character-driven hard science fiction. Catherine Li, the star of Spin State, is a major character in this novel as well, though not the main character.

Moriarty, Chris    

Category: Tough Women
Summary: I heard about Spin State from the author, who told me the main character was a lesbian, “though in the spirit of truth in advertising, the main character lives in a future with much more fluid attitudes about gender and sexuality and is probably more accurately described as ‘equal opportunity with a strong preference for girls’."

Morse, David    

Category: Time travel
Summary: Maggie Foster is sent back to 1773 England from a future in ecological collapse to spoil the success of the world's first iron bridge, on the theory that this will slow or halt the industrial revolution. Includes a lesbian romance.

Ore, Rebecca    

Category: Time travel
Summary: Not your typical time travel story. Earth in the 24th century has received time machines from its own future. The "Archives" use them to grab people from the past. Most of them go crazy or die, until they bring up the Italian woman Benedetta. The book is somewhat unusual in that it never reveals what is going on behind the scenes--you're left just as uncertain as the characters themselves. For me, the biggest flaw was that Benedetta didn't get enough airtime. The two male protagonists got more than their 66% worth, and since both of them started out as unlikable, it made me even more frustrated that I didn't get more of Benedetta's side of things. Ore has another book in this collection, but my favorite of her's is Gaia's Toys, which is in the Other Books section.

Ore, Rebecca    

Category: Dystopian future
Summary: In a gray, industro-technical future, Jayne can't decide if she wants to be respectable and conform, or if she wants to buck the system. One of the women she encounters on her journey is a lesbian.

Park, Severna    Lesbian Author!

Category: Far future
Summary: Humans are divided into Jackless, Jacked, and Meshed. The Jackless and Jacked rebel against the Meshed and kill all but three of them. Those three still manage to maintain some control over the others with the use of the drug Staze. But is the dreamworld created by Staze actually a connection to another universe, and there is an entity with unknown intentions trying to cross over.

Park, Severna    Lesbian Author!

Category: Far future
Summary: Frenna is a slave. Like all slaves, she's been injected with a virus that will keep her young for 20 years, and then “Fail,” killing her. But Frenna survives Failure and escapes her owner, only to find herself trapped, in a place more brutal than anything she's ever known. Same universe as Speaking Dreams.

Park, Severna    Lesbian Author!

Category: Far future
Summary: Costa, a runaway slave sold into the service of a diplomat finds herself drawn to her reluctant mistress and discovers that her troubling visions may hold the key to defying ruthless Faraqui domination. Nominated for the Lambda Literary Award.

Perry, Steve    

Category: Space-based
Summary: Dirisha Zuri is a tough fighter, trained in many martial arts, and on a quest for enlightenment. She finds herself at the Matador Villa, where she receives a depth of maritial and spiritual training that she had always hoped to find. In terms of sexuality, she’s equal-opportunity.

Picano, Felice    

Category: Far future
Summary: Women rule the galactic empire, but not everyone is satisfied with the state of the union.

Piercy, Marge    

Category: Near future
Summary: Connie Ramos, a woman in her mid-thirties, has been incarcerated in a mental institution. But she isn't insane, she's just able to communicate with the future. The society of the year 2137 is sane, just, and under attack.

Pollack, Rachel    

Category: Fantasy
Summary: Satirical look at an America that has embraced Wicca/New Age philosophies and a new take on the virgin birth.

Rosen, Selina    Lesbian Author!

Category: Science Fiction
Summary: This was a disappointment to me since I enjoyed Rosen's "Chains of " books. But Hammer Town needs about two more drafts and some serious editing. Even the main character, Hammer, is just a pale reflection of RJ from the "Chains of" books. I'm hoping this is a fluke and that her other books are better.

Rosenblum, Mary    

Category: Space-based
Summary: Ahni has traveled to the New York Up orbital to avenge the death of her brother. Instead, she ends up embroiled in a political maelstrom over the fate of the orbitals and the strange new creatures inhabiting them. Ahni has a female ex-lover and a few lesbian couples make brief appearances. However, the portrayals are not particularly positive.

Rosenblum, Mary    

Category: Dystopian future
Summary: Jewel Martina is the lead character of this novel about a dystopian future where the suburbs are in decay and the very rich live in Antarctica. Serafina, a major character who appears later in the novel, had a female lover. The primary male character has a male lover.

Russ, Joanna    Lesbian Author!

Category: Science fiction
Summary: Four women in four different worlds, all with names beginning with ‘J.' Through mysterious means, they start crossing the barriers between their universes and their interactions change all of their lives.

Ryman, Geoff    

Category: Dystopian future
Summary: In the future, humans photosynthesize, viruses educate people, organics have replaced electronics, and homosexuality has been wiped out. The outcast Milena feels alone--until she meets Rolfa.