Theme & Character Lists: Alien Biology

Creating aliens with different biologies than ours can provide feminists a useful way to explore the biological bases of behavior, or just wierd sex scenes ...

• Asimov, Isaac. The Gods Themselves (1972) (a 3-sexed species)
• Busby, F. M. The Alien Debt (1984) (a 3-sexed species)
  
• Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis trilogy: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago
• Carr, Jayge. Leviathan's Deep (1979)
• Delany, Samuel. The Einstein Intersection (1967) (3-sexed species)
• Grae, Camarin. Stranded (1991, Naiad) (3 women from a hermaphroditic species are sent as "disembodied minds" to Earth to stop a villain. They end up identifying as lesbians and fighting a fundamentalist movement led by the villain. The story doesn't particularly dwell on their earlier bodies.)
• Gwyneth Jones' White Queen
• Varley, John. The Gaean Trilogy: Titan, Wizard, and Demon. See particularly Wizard for an explanation of the Titanides' reproduction.