Ryman, Geoff    

Category: Fantasy
Summary: Cara swore vengeance on the Galo gro Galu for destroying her family. Through magic, she changes in a warrior, a male warrior, and sets out to get revenge. Along the way she teams up with Stefile, a young bondservant, who doesn’t want to believe that the man she loves is really a woman.

Salmonson, Jessica Amanda    Lesbian Author!

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

Scott, Melissa    Lesbian Author!

Category: Near future
Summary: Tin Lizzy has escaped her troubled criminal adolescence to become one of the premiere design programmers of the jazz--the worldwide computer net. But she stumbles back into trouble when she agrees to work with a teenage boy's brilliant jazz scenario, which she discovers was created with a program stolen from a Hollywood studio.

Scott, Melissa    Lesbian Author!

Category: Cyber-punk
Summary: Sequel to Dreamships. Concerns the possibility of artificial intelligence and what the existence of such a being would mean to all aspects of society, especially the downtrodden coolies who are rioting in the streets.

Scott, Melissa    Lesbian Author!

Category: Cyber-punk
Summary: “Wild programs" are appearing suddenly and randomly in cyberspace and threatening to cause a second great crash among Federation citizens and the workers of the Night Sky Mine Company.

Scott, Melissa    Lesbian Author!

Category: Science fiction
Summary: I'm not sure there is a single heterosexual in the book. The main female lead has an affair w/a woman. Most of the men are bi, if not gay (you only see most of them having relationships with other men, but you never know). Everyone's sexuality seemed pretty darn fluid. Besides that, the politics were interesting.

Scott, Melissa    Lesbian Author!

Category: Cyber-punk
Summary: India Carless, alias "Trouble," decides to go straight, trading her reputation as a master security hacker for a safe and legal system-monitoring job. Her self-imposed exile from the computer underground ends when a new data thief, passing himself off as Trouble, breaks into a corporate data bank and brags about it. Eager to fend off the attention of federal agents, India tracks her impostor down.

Scott, Melissa    Lesbian Author!

Category: Space-based
Summary: A wealthy corporation owner hires a space pilot to track down her insane brother, a man who might have just created the first fully conscious artificial intelligence.

Shepherd, Joel    

Category: Tough Women
Summary: This is the sequel to Crossover and is an utterly tedious read. My comments in Crossover about the prose apply here, except I think they rushed this one to press without the final editing stage. As for the lesbian content, you find out pretty much right away, in a scene that was so awful that I cringed while reading it, that Cassandra is 100% heterosexual. Vanessa, however, is bi, so the book goes on the list. I'm guessing more Cassandra Kresnov novels are forthcoming; you won't be seeing them here.

Shepherd, Joel    

Category: Bioengineering
Summary: Cassandra Kresnov is an artificial human, a super soldier who has defected from the League and who just wants to live life as a normal person in the Federation. But she's found out and gets embroiled in deadly politics. Vanessa Rice is a SWAT lieutenant who starts falling for Cassandra. Will Cassandra give women a try? Overall the book is a little amateurish. It doesn't get interesting until a good 30 pages in. It's heavy on discussions about politics and ethics and gets redundant and overbearing. The author uses a lot of present day terms and technologies which I found unconvincing on a planet in another solar system several hundred years in our future ("rock music," "phone," "mi crowave"). I suspect the editor/publisher might be new to SF. But despite these flaws, I was able to get into the story and the characters. A sequel is due out in 2007 (Breakaway), which I'll probably buy, if only to see whether or not Cassandra and Vanessa get together.

Slater, Philip    

Category: Humor
Summary: An innocent spider puts dreamy, eccentric Taylor on the trail of a secret plot to bring nuclear destruction to a large American city. Teamed with his friend Grace, a bisexual, feminist anthropology professor, he follows the trail of a sinister Defense Department project, the deadly “Donald Duck.” Wacky and lots of fun.

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.