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off site: the Lambda Sci-Fi (DC Gaylaxians) have an extensive recommended reading list includes many short synopses; they also provide a summary of book discussions; plus "other books of note" which cites a lot of books with short synopses
SF for Lesbians at lesbiansciencefiction.com :: queerhorror.com :: glbtfantasy.com

other on-site bibs:
lesbian authors
dyke protagonists
Queer Youth in Feminist SF
explicitly homophobic

Works: Stories & Novels

A

• Acker, J. Alex. Beware the Kiss (2001) (first of a trilogy with lesbian protagonists)
• Acker, Kathy. Empire of the Senseless (1988) [polyamorous / bisexual sf; Acker-esque prose]
• Adams, Laura [pseud. for Karin Kallmaker]. Night Vision (Naiad, 1997)
  --. Christabel (Naiad, 1998)
  --. The Dawning (Naiad, 1999)
  --. Sleight of Hand [Tunnel of Light trilogy; 1] (lesbian protagonists)
  --. Seeds of Fire [Tunnel of Light trilogy; 2]
  
• Adams, Nene. The Sunne in Gold (2000) (lesbian alternative history romantic fantasy)
• Adams, Richard. Maia (bisexual woman in a decadent Nero-esque society)
• Alderman, Gill. The Archivist (A young man is raised from the gutters to participate in, perhaps, a revolution; homosexuality is not feared or disdained, and the young man's mentor is also his lover.)
• Aldiss, Brian. The Dark Light Years (1964) [a gender-shifting species, and a short section on a gay ghetto]
  --. The Primal Urge (1961) [everyone wears a tag that turns pink when they're aroused ... not focused on homosexuality but it's kinda obvious]
  --. The Hand-Reared Boy (1970) (not sf but lots of gay content)
• Alguire, Judith. Zeta Base (1991, Naiad) (In the far future, Earth is essentially a cross between a nature preserve and a historic landmark. When the revered scientist-philosopher Antiquity starts warning of a disaster that is about to befall earth, her protegees -- Deirdre, an animal-loving grandola dyke; Morgan, a wild-child performance artist; and Jaffey, a smooth & affable engineer/politico -- have to decide whether to believe & support their old mentor. In the meantime Morgan & Jaffey compete for the love of Deirdre; Jaffey's assistant Millgrew bears an unrequited love for her boss; and a conspiracy may, or may not, be afoot. What crazy stunts will Morgan pull? Who will Deirdre end up with? Will Jaffey notice Millgrew? Is Jaffey evil or just a dupe? Who is the real villain? The fate of earth hangs in the balance. The conclusion of the book is a standard cliff-hanger & lead-in to a sequel, which as of 6/00, has not appeared. -- lq, 6/12/00)
• Allegra, Donna. "Salt" in Lesbian Short Fiction #1, edited by Jinx Beers (lesbian retelling of Bible story of Lot's wife)
  --. "A Toast of Babatine" Sinister Wisdom, #34 (1988) [lesbian love affair, with an amazon from a woman-only tribal society]
• Allison, Dorothy. "Ounces" in Swords of the Rainbow (The story indicates that more was to come, as did Allison, for that matter, in email some years ago. Where o where is the rest of this intriguing story? About a grimy fantasy world populated with thieves & bloodthirsty evil aristocrats, and lesbians.)
  --. "Demon Lover" (in Trash, 1988) (lesbian ghost story)
• Amadahy, Zainab. The Moons of Palmares (some lesbian content)
• Amis, Kingsley. The Alteration (1976) (alternate Renaissance; castrati love affair)
  --. The Green Man (1969) (ghost story; two peripheral female characters run away together)
• Anderson, Poul. "Eutopia" (first published in Harlan Ellison's Dangerous Visions, 1967) (Synopsis: a man from a really wonderful alternative world is visiting a much-less wonderful world. Shock! His faithful lover back home turns out to be a man !!! His eutopia allows / accepts homosexuality! Wow, it is a vast and scary universe.)
  --. "The Fatal Fulfillment" in Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1970; reprinted in Five Fates [many possible worlds including one sorta-awful world of homosexuals]
  --. "The Peat Bog" (1975) (gay male love)
  --. Virgin Planet (1959) (an all-female society with female crushes has been waiting eagerly for men; a few wicked hold-outs still want lesbianism but most normal healthy women scramble for the less-than-desireable male)
• Anonymous. "Kiki." Vice Versa, Dec. 1947. [an omniscient supernatural character observes the trials & tribulations of a young lesbian trying to figure out whether she's a butch or a femme]
• Anthony, Mark. "The Last Rune" series. Beyond the Pale (1998) (Book 1 of the Last Rune; gay & bi male protagonists)
  --. The Keep of Fire (1999) (Book 2 of The Last Rune)
  --. The Dark Remains (2001) (Book 3 of The Last Rune) (more gay & transgendered characters)
  --. Blood of Mystery (2002) (Book 4 of The Last Rune) (more gay characters)
  --. The Gates of Winter (2003) (Book 5 of The Last Rune) (gay characters)
• Anthony, Patricia. "Guardian of Fireflies" in Eating Memories (1997) (protagonist a gay man; his (ex?) lover has AIDS)
• Arnason, Eleanor. A Woman of the Iron People (1991): Ring of Swords (homosocial communities in which the males lead separate lives than the females)
  --. "Dapple." (Won Gaylaxicon's Spectrum Award 2000)
• Arobateau, Red Jordan. How's Mars? (1975)
• Asprin, Robert Lynn. "Thieves World" -- a shared world including various examples of same-sex sexuality, such as Marion Zimmer Bradley's "Lythande"
• Atwood, Margaret. A Handmaid's Tale (1986) (protagonist's best friend is lesbian)

B

• Bailey, Robin Wayne. Shadowdance (1996) (gay man)
  --. Brothers of the Dragon (trilogy; gay character)
• Baird, Wilhelmina. Crashcourse (1993) (cyberpunk; group marriage; gay & bi)
  --. ClipJoint
  --. PsyKosis
• Ballard, J. G. Crash (gay etc.)
• Bamber, George. The Sea Is Boiling Hot (1971) [ecological future horror; homosexuality is acceptable in a "fall of the romans" way, to show the depravity of people]
• Barker, Clive. Sacrament (1996) (gay man)
  --. Galilee (1998) (bi & lesbian characters)
  --. Books of Blood (1984/86): "In the Hills, the Cities" [gay male content]
  --. "The Yattering and Jack" in Books of Blood v. 1 (1984) [minor character is lesbian]
  --. "Age of Desire"
  --. "Human Remains"
  --. Great and Secret Show (1989)
  --. Everville
  --. Imagjica (1991) (gay protagonists)
• Barnes, Steven. --. Streetlethal (1983) (Aubry Knight Series)
  --. Gorgon Child (1989) (Aubry Knight series)
  (both books mention a lesbian commune and male separatist camps; include homosexuals; and racial diversity)
• Barney, Natalie Clifford. The One Who Is Legion, or, A.D.'s Afterlife (1930) [a lesbian's body is taken over by a hermaphroditic spirit]. Excerpt published in Dial, June 1927.
• Barr, George. "The Lore of the Ages" in Lesbian Short Fiction #1, edited by Jinx Beers (lesbian short story)
• Barrus, Tim. Genocide: The Anthology (1989) [a Burroughs-like druggish narrative of a dystopic future reality after an AIDS-like virus has destroyed civilization]
• Barth, Roger. "The Homosexual Aid Society in the Middle of the 21st Century," ONE Magazine, Los Angeles, May 1962. [short story of future gay liberation]
• Bartter, M. A. "Be Ye Perfect," Galaxy, Jan. 1975. [male/female separatism; lesbian protagonist]
• Baudino, Gael. Gossamer Axe (1990) (woman from ancient Ireland fights the Sidhe for her lesbian/bi lover with an all-woman heavy metal band)
  --. Strands of Starlight
  --. Maze of Moonlight
  --. Shroud of Shadow
  --. Strands of Sunlight
  --. Branch and Crown
  --. Dragon Trilogy: Dragonsword (1991), Duel of Dragons (1989), Dragon Death (1992) (transgender; lesbian)
  --. O Greenest Branch
• Bayer, Sandy. --. The Crystal Curtain (Alyson, 1988) (psychic lesbian)
  --. The Crystal Cage (Alyson, 1991) (sequel to The Crystal Curtain)
• Bear, Greg. "Tangents" in Omni v. 8, no. 4 (Jan. 1986). (Gay mathematician.)
  --. The Anvil of Stars (bi protagonist, homosexuality)
• Beaumont, Charles. pseudonym for Charles Nutt. "The Crooked Man," Playboy, Aug. 1955; reprinted in Hunger and Other Stories (1958); reprinted in Best of Beaumont. (Homosexuality is the norm because of overpopulation.)
  --. "Miss Gentilbelle" in The Hunger and Other Stories (1957)
• Beckett, Terri & Chris Power. Tribute Trail (1999) (bi male characters)
• Beckford, William. The History of the Caliph Vathek (1786) (supernatural tale based on homosexual characters)
• Beeching, Jack. The Dakota Project (1968) (thriller, possibly sf; with two lesbian major characters)
• Bell, Neil. Gone to Be Snakes Now (1974) (young people very concerned with their sexual orientation)
• Ben, Lisa. (Pseudonym: anagram of "lesbian".) "New Year's Revolution" (January 1948, in Vice Versa) (a gay utopia visited in a dream) [see Gaysweek, New York, no. 49, 1/23/1978, interview with Leland Moss and Lisa Ben.]
• Benchley, Chaz. Tower of the King's Daughter (gay men)
  --. Feast of the King's Shadow
• Benson, E. F. The Inheritor (1930) (queer themes)
• Berger, Thomas. Regiment of Women [vile homophobic; lesbianism and effeminacy suggested and trashed]
• Berman, Steve. Trysts: A Triskaidecollection of Queer and Weird Stories (2001)
• Besher, Alexander. Rim (1994) (minor lesbian characters)
• Bey, Hakim. Crowstone: The Chronicles of Qamar (1983) [controversial sword & sorcery novel; pornographic; adult-child relationship]
• Birdstone, Alabama. Queer Free. (1981: Calamus Books, New York, NY). ISBN 0-930762-04-5. © Ed Boggs. (A fascist homophobic Christian sect, the "Believers," sweeps America. Queers are persecuted, and eventually herded into ghetto concentration camps, where a final solution, or perhaps a revolution, may be planned. Some really graphic sex scenes.)
• Bishop, Anne. Daughter of the Blood (male-male same-sex sexuality implied between brothers once)
• Bishop, Michael. Unicorn Mountain (1988) (AIDS, magic, unicorns)
• Black, Holly. Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale (2002)
• Blackburn, Thomas, 1916- . The Feast of the Wolf (lesbian vampire fiction ?)
• Blackman, Marci. Po Man's Child. (Excellent novel; minor fantastic elements.)
• Bledsoe, Lucy Jane. "Reconnaissance" in Hot Ticket: Tales of Lesbians, Sex, and Travel edited by Linnea Due (Alyson: 1997) (lesbian erotica; dykes watching for aliens out under the stars)
• Block, Francesca Lia. Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books (1998). This collects five short novels in one book. Although there is some gay content in all novels, Weetzie Bat (1989) is about a young woman (Weetzie) and her best friend, a gay boy, and their eventual true loves. Baby Be-Bop (1995) is about Dirk's youth and family.
  --. Weetzie Bat (1989)
  --. Witch Baby
  --. Cherokee Bat and The Goat Guys
  --. Missing Angel Juan
  --. Baby Be-Bop (1995)
  --. Ecstasia (gay men)
  --. Primavera (gay men)
• Boucher, Anthony. "Khartoum: A Prose Limerick" (in Strange Bedfellows: Sex and Science Fiction, edited by Thomas N. Scortia (1972)) (An apparently male-female couple, perhaps the last of the human species, is set up by a benevolent alien species in this short-short-short story.)
• Bowen, Gary. Winter of the Soul (1995) (gay male vampires, 3 short stories)
  --. "Cyber Knight" in Fetish Fantastic: Tales of Power and Lust from Futuristic to Surreal edited by Cecelia Tan (Circlet Press: 1999) (gay male virtual reality / chess porno)
  --. Diary of a Vampire (1995) (gay vampire wakes up in late 20th century pansexual Baltimore)
  --. Man Hungry (1996) (collection gay horror)
  --. "The Amateur Vampire" in Dead of Night Magazine #9
  --. "The Haunting of Andrew Brigg" in Dead of Night Magazine #11; republished in Winter of the Soul
  --. "Dream-Eater" in Dead of Night Magazine #13; republished in Winter of the Soul
  
• Bowes, Richard. Minions of the Moon (1999). (Gay male protagonist; lived through bathhouse pick-ups as a young man & various wild-oats; now as an older man is caring for his AIDS-stricken lover.)
  --. "So Many Miles to the Hart of a Child" (Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 1998)
• Bradbury, Ray. "The Cold Wind and the Warm," Harper's, July 1964; reprinted in I Sing the Body Electric! (1969) (gay men in Ireland) [aka "The Warm Wind and the Cold"]
• Bradley, Marion Zimmer. (Some Darkover books with lesbian as heroine)
  

  Darkover:
  --. The Heritage of Hastur (1975) (Darkover; gay men; the heir to Hastur comes out)
  --. The Shattered Chain (Darkover; lesbians; Magda 1)
  --. Thendara House (1986) (lesbians; Darkover, Magda 2)
  --. City of Sorcery (lesbians; Darkover, Magda 3)
  --. The Planet Savers (1962) (minor gay; Darkover)
  --. Sharra's Exile (1981) (Darkover)
  --. "Hawk-Master's Son" in The Keeper's Price and Other Stories (1980)
  --. "Man of Impulse" in Four Moons of Darkover (1988)
  --. "The Shadow" in Red Sun of Darkover (1987)
  --. "The Legend of Lady Bruna" in Free Amazons of Darkover, edited by Bradley (1985) (a woman marries another woman)

  --. "The Wind People" in Women of Wonder (1975, ed. by Sargent)
  --. The Firebrand (lots of queerness)
  --. Warrior Woman (1985) (lesbian gladiator)
  --. The Catch Trap (not sf; a circus performers gay love story)
  --. Ruins of Isis (lesbian matriarchy)
  --. Survey Ship (1980) (ya gay)
  --. "Another Rib" with John J. Wells [pseud. for Juanita Coulson]. Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1963. [all male]

  Lythande series:
  --. Lythande (lesbian; Thieves World also includes the male Sacred Band of warriors, many of whom are lovers)
  --. "The Incompetent Magician," in Greyhaven (1983); another version "The Secret of the Blue Star" published in Thieves World edited by Robert Aspring, 1979; (a lesbian magician passes as a man)
  --. "Secret of the Blue Star" in Thieves' World (1979, edited. by Robert Asprin) --. "The Wandering Lute", reprinted in Lythande, originally published in Fantasy and Science Fiction, Feb. 1986. (the cross-dressing lesbian magician)
  

• Brantenberg, Gerd. Egalia's Daughters (1985, Seal Press) (role reversal; the male protagonist becomes a masculinist-separatist)
• Brass, Perry. --. Mirage (1991) (gay romance)
  --. Circles (1993) (sequel to Mirage).
  --. Albert, or, The Book of Man (1995) (sequel to Mirage) (fundamentalist White Christian Party has taken over America; gay male romance
  --. Out There: Stories of Private Desires, Horror, and the Afterlife (1994) with Tom Laine
  --. The Harvest: A Novel (1997) (clones)
  --. The Substance of God (Belhue Press)
• Brenchley, Chaz.
  --. The Devil in the Dust ("Outremer" series v.1) (male-male relationships depicted; protagonist may be bisexual)
  --. Tower of the King's Daughter (Outremer series; second half of US ed. of Devil in the Dust) (gay characters)
  --. Feast of the King's Shadow (includes A Dark Way to Glory and Feast of the King's Shadow)
  --. Hand of the King's Evil (includes Hand of the King's Evil and The End of All Roads)
• Brin, David. Glory Season (homosexuality normal)
• Brojim, R.C. Cognate (2000) (main lesbian character)
• Brophy, Brigid. Palace Without chairs (1978) (farce with lots of lbg characters, in a mythical modern country)
• Brownrigg, Elizabeth. Falling to Earth (1998, Firebrand). (Lesbian has truck with angel.)
• Bryan, Jed A. A Cry in the Desert (1987: Banned Books, Austin, Texas). ISBN 0-934411-04-2. (Right-wing homophobes take over Nevada, use the beginning AIDS plague to fan homophobia, and eventually establish death-camps for queers. Interesting initial scenes covering the disbelief of the gay community about AIDS; and a celebrated Gay Elder is a dyke.)
• Bryant, Dorothy. The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You (1976) (presumed bisexuality but demonstrated heterosexuality)
• Buck, Charles H. The Master Cure (1989) (an AIDS-like plague is genetically engineered by racists to target people of color)
• Bujold, Lois McMaster. Ethan of Athos (1986) (All-male planet that reproduces artificially needs to get some more female gametes & sends one man out to get 'em.)
  --. Rest of the Miles Vorkosigan series includes other gay, hermaophriditic, and transgendered characters. See especially The Warrior's Apprentice; The Vor Game; Mirror Dance; A Civil Campaign (transgender). In Barrayar and Mirror Dance there is some discussion of a major character's bisexuality
• Bull, Emma. Bone Dance (1981)
  --. War for the Oaks
  
• Burdekin, Katharine. Swastika Night. (in a future Nazi state homosexuality is the norm, since women are so degraded that nobody sane could want them)
  --. The End of This Day's Business. (in a future matriarchy, homosexuality is normal)
• Burgess, Anthony. The Wanting Seed (1962) (homophobic dystopia of a future england in which homosexuality, a force against nature, reigns supreme, causing the dissolution of society)
  --. The Eve of Saint Venus (1964) (lesbian)
• Burroughs, William S. Naked Lunch
  --. The Wild Boys (1971) (queers in near future fascism)
  --. The Soft Machine (1961) (experimental fiction, queers, near future dystopia)
  --. Nova Express (1964) (sequel to Soft Machine)
  --. Cities of the Red Night (1987)
• Busby, F. M. "For a Daughter" in Amazons II, edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson (1982) (a young woman from an all-female society has her first heterosexual encounter)
  --. Zelda M'Tana (1980) [female protagonist has some affairs with women as well as men]
• Butler, Octavia. Patternmaster (1976) [protagonist Amber is bisexual]
  --. Parable of the Talents (1998) (minor character involved in lesbian relationship; more significant character stated late in the book to be probably gay although too religious to ever express it; rape & nonconsensual sex, male-female and male-male, occurred frequently)
  --. Fledgling (2005) (bisexual vampires)
• Byers, Edward. "The Disconnect" in Analog (August 1982)

  C

• Cadigan, Pat. "Pretty Boy Crossover" (1986) [young gay man]
• Cadora, Karen. Stardust Bound (1994) [lesbian romance]
• Calder, Richard. "Mosquito" in Omni (July 1990)
  --. Dead Girls [maybe]
• Califia, Pat. Doc and Fluff: The Dystopian Tale of a Girl and Her Biker (1990, Alyson) (lesbian sm relationships are centered in this violent and yes, dystopic tale of the future)
  --. "The Vampire" in Macho Sluts (1988)
  --. "The Hustler" in Macho Sluts (1988)
• Card, Orson Scott. Songmaster
• Carey, Jacqueline. Kushiel's Dart (2001) ("love as thou wilt" is the primary religious theory; one historical homosexual relationship and one present-day lesbian relationship are key to the plots, but relationships of all kinds exist in this world)
  --. Kushiel's Chosen
  --. Kushiel's Avatar
  
• Carlisle, Anne. Liquid Sky: The Novel (1987) (based on the screenplay)
• Carter, Angela. The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman (1972) (lesbian character)
  --. "Oerture and Incidental Music for A Midsummer Night's Dream" in Shakespeare Stories, edited by Giles Gordon, London, Hamish Hamilton, 1982. (hermaphroditic version of the Shakespeare play)
• Carter, Raphael. Fortunate Fall (1996) (lesbian character)
• Cashorali, Peter. Fairy Tales: Traditional Stories Retold for Gay Men (Harper, 1995)
  --. Gay Fairy and Folk Tales: More Traditional Stories Retold for Gay Men (Faber & Faber, 1997)
• Casper, Susan. "Nine Tenths of the Law" in Asimov's July 1991
• Charles, Renée M. "Nudes Ascending a Staircase" in Sexcrime: An Anthology of Subversive Erotica edited by Cecilia Tan (Circlet Press: 2000) (lesbian models sit for a dyke pornographer in an anti-sex society in which pornography is banned)
  --. "Color of Pain, Shade of Pleasure" in Fetish Fantastic: Tales of Power and Lust from Futuristic to Surreal edited by Cecelia Tan (Circlet Press: 1999) (lesbian sm porno)
• Chandler, A. Bertram. Spartan Plan (sex war; all male world; homosexuality strongly implied but never explicitly laid out)
  --. False Fatherland (1968) [a sequel to Spartan Plan ?]
  --. The Inheritors
• Charnas, Suzy McKee. Walk to the End of the World. (gay male relationship at the forefront of this patriarchal dystopian novel)
  --. Motherlines (lesbian women have their own separatist society).
  --. The Furies. (the freed fems from Walk kick butt)
  --. The Conqueror's Child (daughter of the leader of the free fems returns to mom; gay relationships also show up again) (1999).
• Cherryh, C. J. Cyteen (the 2 male protagonists are involved in an odd sort of adoptive brother / master-servant / lover relationship; their father is apparently also in a similar relationship, and is explicitly described as non-heterosexual in the novel. Other characters have same-sex sex apparently.)
• Christian, Deborah. Mainline (1996) (lesbian assassin)
• Christman, Henry M., and E. Powys Mathers, editors. Gay Tales and Verses from the Arabian Nights (1989: Banned Books, Austin, Texas) (selected excerpts from the original)
• Claremont, Chris. First Flight (1981) (bi character)
• Clarke, A. P. The Way of the Bees: An Ovarian Yarn (1995; Dublin, Basement Press. ISBN 1-85594-180-5)
• Clarke, Arthur C. Imperial Earth (1976) (Clarke, it turns out, was gay; the protagonist in Imperial Earth was bi/gay)
  --. Rendezvous with Rama (gay couple)
  --, and GEntry Lee. Cradle (gay couple)
• Conrad, Heather. Baktun 2012 (2002)
• Constantine, Storm.
  --. Calenturetin
  --. The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit (1987; the first book of Wraeththu) (gay men are the future, as attractive young men begin evolving into the Wraeththu, a more-than-human species with an interesting penis. women are reduced to the position of fag-hags, it seems.)
  --. The Bewitchments of Love and Hate (1988; Wraeththu 2)
  --. The Fulfilments of Fate and Desire (1989; Wraeththu 3)
  --. Sea Dragon Heir (2000) (homosexuality is just one more vice practiced by the decadent scions of The Empire, but most of the characters (the ones not practicing it, that is) seem to not be too bothered; it is a bit more problematic in the more rural kingdom that is the center of the novel)
  --. Thorn Boy [Sea Dragon world]
  --. The Monstrous Regiment [matriarchal dictatorship]
  --. Hermetech [bi]
  --. Burying the Shadow [bi]
  
• Cooke, John Peyton. Out for Blood (1991) (gay vampire)
  --. Torsos (mystery in 1930s gay Cleveland)
  
• Cooper, Edmund. Gender Genocide (1972); also published as Who Needs Men? [homophobic depiction of lesbianism]
  --. Seahorse in the Sky
• Cooper, Fiona. I Believe in Angels (selected short stories w/ magical real or psychic elements)
• Counts, Sora. "Impulse" in Hot Ticket: Tales of Lesbians, Sex, and Travel edited by Linnea Due (Alyson: 1997) (lesbian sm fantasy)
• Coville, Bruce. The Skull of Truth (ya; boy's older brother is gay)
• Covina, Gina. The City of Hermits (Berkeley, Ca: Barn Owl, 1983). (near future lesbian fantasy)
• Cox, Joan. Mindsong (1979) (two men were lovers in a former life; in the current life, one of the men does not remember)
  --. Star Web (1980) (homoeroticism; bisexual captain)
• Crittenden, Lee. "Anthem" in Sexcrime: An Anthology of Subversive Erotica edited by Cecilia Tan (Circlet Press: 2000) (slave clones discover sororal sapphic sex)
• Crozier, Ouida. Shadows After Dark (Rising Tide Press, 1993) (lesbian vampires from another dimension; lesbian romance)

  D

• Danvers, Dennis. End of Days [side character is gay male; possibly others]
• Dedman, Stephen. Foreign Bodies (1999) (main male character moved into woman's body and has lesbian relationships)
  --. "The War, On Drugs" in Aurealis #19 [lesbian]
  --. "The Pretender" in Mammoth Book of Arthurian Legend [gay Arthur/Galahad]
• Delany, Samuel. Stars in my Pocket Like Grains of Sand (literary gay male)
  --. Triton (aka Trouble on Triton) (1976) (gender switching)
  --. "Aye, and Gomorrah ... " (first published in Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison, 1967)
  --. Dhalgren (1975)
  --. They Fly at Cirron
  --. Equinox
  --. Nevèrÿona
  --. Flight from Neveryona
  --. lots of other stuff ...
• Dietz, Ulysses G. Desmond: A Novel of Love and the Modern Vampire (1998, Alyson) (A rich gay New York vampire, every gay boy's dream.)
• DiMarco, Jennifer. Dragon Storm
  --. Escape to the Wind (1993) (Castillo International, 1993; 0-9628621-5-0) (Wind Trilogy; 1) (a future earth after nuclear war; the world is divided into city-states; Seattle is ruled by The Patriarchy; the heroes of the mixed-sex gang are mostly girls & mostly involved in lesbian relationships)
  --. Fall Through the Sky (2001) (Wind Trilogy; 2) (Pride & Imprints, 1997)
  
• Disch, Thomas. On Wings of Song (gay characters)
  --. 334 (1974) (lesbian characters; accepted homosexuality)
  --. On Wings of Song (1979) (bisexual youth)
• Donoghue, Emma. Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins (1997, HarperCollins)
• Dorsey, Candas Jane. Black Wine (1997) (the protagonist is apparently bisexual, and forms a 3-way relationship, among many other relationships)
  --. A Paradigm of Earth (2001)
• Douglas, Lauren Wright. In the Blood. (1989, Naiad) (future US divided by plague; blood is stolen from healthy people; lesbian sf adventure)
• Dreher, Sarah. A Captive in Time (Stoner McTavish transported to 1871 Colorado Territory - mystery fantasy)
  --. Gray Magic (Stoner & her lover Gwen enmeshed in a struggle between Hopi spirits of good & evil - mystery fantasy)
• Duane, Diane. The Door Into Fire (1979) (throughout the Door books, major characters are all bisexual; two major male characters are primary partners with each other; nonmonogamy and multiple partner family structures perfectly normal)
  --. The Door Into Shadow (1984) (book 2)
  --. The Door Into Sunset (1993) (book 3)
  --. So You Want To Be A Wizard (YA; minor gay characters)
  --. Deep Wizardry (YA; minor gay characters);
  --. High Wizardry (YA; minor gay characters).
• Duchamp, L. Timmel. Alanya to Alanya (2005) (lesbian characters)
  --> Love's Body, Dancing in Time
• Duffy, Maureen. Microcosm (1966) (experimental fiction; ghost story; lesbian bar)
• Duncan, Dave. The Cursed (1995) (people may change body shapes)
• Dunsford, Cathie. Ao Toa: Earth Warriors
  --. Song of the Selkies

E

• Eakin, Benjamin, 1952- . Fairy Tales Mother Never Told You (1985, Banned Books)
• Eakins, William. Key West, 2720 A.D. (1989, Knights Press) (gay male romance, with a nearly immortal gay hero ...)
• Edelman, Scott. The Gift (gay / vampire - small-town homophobia)
• Edmonson, Roger. Silverwolf (1990) (gay werewolf mystery)
• Eighner, Lars. QSFx2: Queer Science Fiction (Masquerade)
• Elana, Myrna. "Hourglass City" in Hot Ticket: Tales of Lesbians, Sex, and Travel edited by Linnea Due (Alyson: 1997) (dystopian city; sm dyke sex fantasy)
• Engh, M. J. Arslan (1976) (bisexual dictator rapes boy and girl children; the boy becomes coopted while he is the dictator's berdache)
• Ennis, Catherine. To the Lightning (Naiad Press, 1988). (Two women lost in time in a Robinson Crusoe-like adventure.)
• Eskridge, Kelly. "Alien Jane"
  Solitaire (2002) (lesbian protagonist)
• Esser, Kevin. Dance of the Warriors

F

• Fairbairns, Zoe. Benefits (1979) (feminist sf novel; lesbian side characters)
• Farrell, Matthew. Thunder Rift (2000) (bi character)
• Feintuch, David. The Still (male-male)
  --. The King (male-male)
• Fesmire, Jonathan. Children of Rhatlan (1999) (fraternal opposite-sex twins share a body)
• Finch, Sheila. Infinity's Web (1985) (Four women in alternate worlds are somehow linked. One of them is a lesbian.)
• Fisher, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy). Not Now, but Now (New York: Viking 1947). [time traveling bisexual woman]
• Fletcher, Jane. The World Celaeno Chose (Dimsdale Press, London, 1999) - ISBN 0-9523625-3-8. (lesbian separatist romance: the institutions set up by early colonists to allow women to reproduce by themselves have evolved into a tyrannical theocracy)
• Flewelling, Lynn.
  --. Luck in the Shadows (1996) [Nightrunner Series 1; homoerotic tension between the two male protagonists, one of whom is obviously bisexual; same-sex relations are not a problem in the characters' primary society]
  --. Stalking Darkness (1997) [Nightrunner Series 2; love affair between the two male protagonists]
  --. Traitor's Moon. [Nightrunner Series 3]
  --. The Bone Doll's Twin (Tamir v.1) [bisexual tensions; protagonist is female raised, and magically disguised even from herself, as a boy]
  --. Hidden Warrior (2003) (Tamir v.2)
• Flynn, Michael. In the Country of the Blind (gay mystery / urban fantasy - a secret organization throughout history)
  --. Lodestar (2000) (minor lesbian character)
• Forbes, Caroline. The Needle on Full (Onlywomen Press, 1985)
  --. "The Comet's Tale" in The Needle on Full (female astronauts fall in love)
  --. "London Fields" in The Needle on Full (the men die)
  --. "The Needle on Full" [a woman runs away from husband in near future england and hooks up with another woman]
  --. "Night Life" in The Needle on Full [lesbian lovers]
• Forbes, Edith. Exit to Reality (1998) (transgendered by cyberspace; bi character)
• Forrest, Katherine V. Daughters of a Coral Dawn (1984) (classic lesbian separatist novel, lesbians settling a new planet)
  --. Daughters of an Amber Noon (Alyson: 2002; ISBN 1555836631) [long-awaited sequel to Coral Dawn; takes placed back on the Earth that the lesbian separatist colonists left behind]
  --. Daughters of an Emerald Dusk (2005)
  --. Dreams and Swords (1988) (her short stories, fantasy, sf, and mystery). Includes:
  --. "The Gift" [two lesbian mothers with a disabled child]
  --. "Mother Was an Alien" [prequel to Daughters of a Coral Dawn]
  --. "O Captain, My Captain" [lesbian vampirism]
  --. "The Test" [lesbianism is the next wave]
• Fox, Astrid. Rika's Jewel (Sapphire Press, 1999) - (lesbian viking porn)
• Fox, Brandon. Apprenticed to Pleasure: An Erotic Sci-Fi Novel
  --. Conjuring the Flesh (sequel to Apprenticed)
• Freireich, Valerie J. Testament (1995)
• Friedman, C. S. This Alien Shore (1998) (MPD)

G

• G, Amelia. "Wanting" (lesbian vampire in Blood Kiss)
• Galford, Ellen. The Dyke and the Dybbuk: (Friendly Jewish lesbian demon haunts / possesses a modern London cab-driving dyke.)
  --. The Fires of Bride: (lots of herstory on a remote Scottish isle, including goddess-worship, alternate Jesus-myths, witchcraft, and a variety of dykes for our delectation.)
  --. Queendom Come (ancient Scottish Amazon queen is resurrected by her magician to aid her people, scourged by right-wing homophobic, family-values crowd)
• Gannett, Lewis. The Living One: A Gothic Thriller (1994, Plume)
• Gardner, James Alan. Vigilant (1999) (bi character)
  --. Commitment Hour (choosing sex on adulthood)
  --. Expendable (1997) (lesbian/bi protagonist)
• Gearhart, Sally Miller. The Wanderground: Stories of the Hill. (1978) (One of the classic lesbian separatist utopias of the 70s, and includes gay men & lots of communing with nature.)
• Gerrold, David. The Man Who Folded Himself (1973) (time travel creates a multiverse boy who has sex with himself, both as a boy & a girl)
  --. Jumping Off the Moon (2000) (ya / gay & lesbian characters)
  --. War Against the Cthorr series
  --. Jumping Off the Planet (2000 / Tor) (Winner: 2000 Spectrum Award for best Novel)
  --. Moonstar Odyssey (1977)
  --. "Dingilliad"
  --. The Voyage of the Star Wolf (1990) (v.2 Star Wolf) (minor bi characters)
  --. The Middle of Nowhere (1995) (v.3 Star Wolf) (minor bi characters)
  --. Blood and Fire (2003) (v.4 Star Wolf) (gay characters)
• Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. Herland (1915) - (not very sexual, these women ... )
• Gilman, Carolyn Ives. Halfway Human (1998) (a race of humans has male, female, and "blands" - neuters; parallels to situations of homosexuals in our society)
• Glenn, Nancy Tyler. Clicking Stones (1989, Naiad Press) (lesbian)
• Gom, Leona. The Y Chromosome (1990) (lesbian future world)
• Gomez, Jewelle. The Gilda Stories (1991, Firebrand) (Black lesbian vampire)
• Gotlieb, Phyllis. Flesh and Gold (1998) (major lesbian & bi characters)
  --. Violent Stars (2000) (minor lesbian character; female species)
• Goto, Hiromi. The Kappa Child (2001, Red Deer Press)
  
• Gould, Steven. Helm (1998) (major lesbian character)
• Grae, Camarin. Winged Dancer (1983)
  --. PAZ (Blazon Books, 1984; Naiad, 1984, 1986) (lesbian romantic adventure).
  --. 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.)
  --. Soul Snatcher (1985)
• Grahn, Judy. Mundane's World (1988)
• Gray, Stephen. Born of Man (1989). (man gives birth in apartheid South Africa)
• Green, Roland. (military sf w/ gay & lesbian characters)
  --. Squadron Alert
  --. Division of the Spoils
  --. The Sum of Things
  --. Vain Command
  (adventure sf with characters of many various sexualities)
• Green, Sharon. The Crystals of Mida (1982)
  --. Chosen of Mida (1984)
• Greenland, Colin. Seasons of Plenty (1995) (captain is lovers with another woman)
  --. Take Back Plenty (1990) (bi character)
  
• Griffith, Nicola. Ammonite (Ballantine / Del Rey, 1992) (excellent sf with dyke on all-woman world)
  --. Slow River (Ballantine, 1995) (near-future dyke heiress lost in underworld)
  --. With Her Body (2004 collection of three stories with lesbian protagonists). --. Stay (2002) and The Blue Place (1999) (not sf; mystery/suspense; but with major lesbian protagonist)
• Grimsley, Jim. Kirith Kirin (2000) (fantasy w/ gay & lesbian characters)
  --. The Ordinary (2004) (sf/glb characters; same universe as Kirith Kirin)
• Grimwood, Jon Courtenay. Redrobe (2002) (lesbian character)
  --. Lucifer's Dragon (1998) (bi characters)
• Guess, Carol. Switch (1998). (magic realism with very nicely written dykes - excellent, highly recommended). - ALA GLBTF Book Awards 1998 Finalist.

  H

• Haldeman, Joe. The Forever War (1974) (a future in which being queer is the norm; being heterosexual is queer ... )
  sequels: The Forever Peace
  Forever Free
• Hall, Radclyffe. "Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself" (1934) (a lesbian WWI nurse ends up in the body of a prehistoric cave man)
• Hall, Sandi. The Godmothers (The Women's Press, 1982)
  --. Wingwomen of Hera (Book One of the Cosmic Botanists Trilogy) (Spinsters / Aunt Lute Press, 1987) (Newchild of Maladar, book two, planned but not yet published ...)
• Harper, Steven. "The Silent Empire" series - two male protagonists in a relationship
• Harris, Anne. Accidental Creatures (1998). (lesbian -- in a near-future world of bioengineering & pollution, labor activists take on a Corporation, scientists are up to something, and a new species is being born) --. The Nature of Smoke (1996) (lesbian; our young adult street-wise protagonist falls in love with her young adult genius peer)
  
• Harris, Bertha. Lover (70s psychedelic surrealistic lesbianism)
• Harrison, Don. The Alexandrian Drachma (gay historical fantasy romance, 19th century Egyptologists search for Alexander the Great artifacts)
• Hartman, Keith. The Gumshoe, the Witch and the Virtual Corpse (Meisha Merlin Press) (near future mystery, with fundamentalists & queers both)
• Hegland, Jean. Into the Forest (Calyx, 1996) (onetime occurrence of lesbianism)
• Heinlein, Robert A. Friday (1982) (In Friday and many other Heinlein novels, there is sometimes lesbian sex.)
• Hickman, Tracy. The Immortals (Roc, 1996) (a straight man tries to find out where the new fascist US government has taken his AIDS-stricken gay son)
• Hignutt, Diana. Empress of Clouds (2004) (transgender protagonist)
• Holland, Cecelia. Floating Worlds (1976) (protagonist initiates a lesbian affair)
• Holmes, B. I. Mega (1991, Mother Courage Press) (lesbian sf adventure romance; a post-holocaust future city ruled rather tyrannically; a scientist & some genetically engineered psychics decide to run away a la "Logan's Run" to the Outside (of the dome) if not to a Sanctuary)
• Hoppe, Stephanie T. The Windrider (1985) (protagonist sleeps with both men & women)
• Huff, Tanya. Fifth Quarter
  --. Sing the Four Quarters
  --. No Quarter
  --. The Quartered Sea - (The "Quarter" series is fantasy, w/ a gay main character, plus some sex-switching, and other gender & sexuality stuff)
  --. Blood Price (1991) (bi male vampire)
  --. Blood Trail (1992)
  --. Blood Lines (1992)
  --. Blood Pact (1993)
  --. Blood Debt (1997) (gay/bi vampire - mysteries)
  --. The Fire's Stone (1990) (discussions of explicit anti-same-sex training in a homophobic culture; a male character dealing with his own attraction to a guy & his upbringing in the homophobic culture; same-sex attraction otherwise treated as normal by most characters)
  --. Gate of Darkness, Circle of Light (1989) (many positive references to same-sex; a tolerantly straight guy dealing with his own internalized homophobia & attraction to a guy)
  

I

• Ingrid, Charles. "The Points of Chaos" trilogy (male-male emotional)

  J

• Jablokov, Alexander. Deepdrive (1998) (lesbian character)
• Jackson, Shirley. The Haunting of Hill House (1959) (psychological horror; strong implication that one of the protagonists is a lesbian)
• Jaivin, Linda. Rock'n'Roll Babes from Outer Space (1998) (3 alien-human babes come to earth for some madcap adventures with sex, drugs, & rock'n'roll; lots of music & sf in-jokes, some minor politics, & an amusing plot. Although the primary love relationship is het, one of the Babes is a full-on dyke, and at least two of the human boys associated with the Babes are rather fey, & managed to get almost bashed. Joie-de-vivre and joie-de-baisser (spelling?) fill this book, so fun-loving kids of all sexual persuasions should enjoy it. -- lq, 7/13/00)
• Jakober, Marie. The Black Chalice (2000) (Narrated by a self-hating monk who is still in love with the knight of his youth (and they say gay relationships can't last!). So, the main narrator is a self-hating homophobe; but pay attention, because in this book sex is a force for good, and the hero (definitely not the monk) has no problems sharing his bed with men or women. This book may sneak past the glb sf community, but don't let it; it's rare & beautiful to see us out there so prominently, in such a well-written novel. -- lq, 12/31/00)
• Janifer, Laurence M. "The Gift" (originally published in Dystopian Visions, edited by Roger Elwood (1975)) (A story about two gay men in a future in which Gay Liberation has succeeded. People are now entranced by the equivalent of a fuck-doll. Lots of rambling paragraphs about gender identification and "introjection," whatever that is. I might be wrong but it seems the fuck doll takes on the opposite sex's gender and somehow it is implied that The Being (the fuck-doll) is terminally confused by this and therefore must kill its homosexual partners. Pretty unpleasant and silly story, actually. -- lq, 6/29/00)
• Johnson, S. G. "Deep Six" in Sexcrime: An Anthology of Subversive Erotica edited by Cecilia Tan (Circlet Press: 2000) (Gay soldiers in outer space find each other despite enforced heterosexuality.)
  --. Moonshadows: Fantasies of Love and Magick (four short stories with lesbian sf/f/horror)
  
• Johnson, Toby. Secret Matter (1990) (comedy sf / coming out story) (won a Lambda)
• Jones, Gwyneth. Kairos. (gay/lesbian content)
  --. Divine Endurance (1984) (Primary characters form a lesbian relationship; at least one other lesbian relationship mentioned; gay male sex frequently alluded to)
  --. Life (2004) (bi protagonists)
• Jones, Mary J. Avalon (Naiad, 1991) (lesbian goddess avalon fantasy)

  K

• Kaldera, Raven. "Flying Dreams" in The New Worlds of Women edited by Cecelia Tan, Circlet Press, 1996; reprinted in Best Lesbian Erotica (112-124) selected by Jewelle Gomez, edited by Tristan Taormino, Cleis Press, 1997. A young woman from a fundamentalist anti-sex world has been sent to college, and is liberated from the device which prevents her from sexual feelings.
  --. "Predator" in Sexcrime: An Anthology of Subversive Erotica edited by Cecilia Tan (Circlet Press: 2000) (lesbian SM relationship and a contagious vampirism)
  --. "Thief of Dreams" in Fetish Fantastic: Tales of Power and Lust from Futuristic to Surreal edited by Cecelia Tan (Circlet Press: 1999) (various virtual reality sexualities explored)
• Karr, Phyllis Ann. Frostflower and Thorn (1980)
  --. Frostflower and Windbourne (1982) [lesbian subtext; early Xena like dynamics b/w swordswoman & sorceress sidekick; however, also straight sex]
• Katz, Judith. Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound (lesbian magic realism)
  --. "The Amazing Disappearing Girl" in Sinister Wisdom (Berkeley, Calif.), no. 34 (1988); revised & reprinted in Memories and Visions, edited by Susanna Sturgis (1989).
• Kay, Guy Gavriel. The Lions of Al-Rassan (1993) (bisexual assassin / historical fantasy)
  --. The Wandering Fire
  --. Tigana (gay character)
• Keegan, Mel. Death's Head (1991) (gay men)
  --. Equinox (1993, Gay Men's Press)
  --. Ice Wind and Fire (1990, Gay Men's Press)
• Kerr, Peg. The Wild Swans (1999) - (retelling of fairy tale, mixed w/ story of a young gay man with AIDS - won Gaylaxicon's Spectrum Award 2000)
• Kettle, Pamela. The Day of the Women (1969) (lesbian attractions are hinted at, and disparaged, in Britain after the women take over. homophobic.)
• Killough, Lee. A Voice Out of Ramah (1979) (On a world in which men ostensibly rule, but 90% die during puberty, women are free to form social and sexual attachments with one another. Although the society is described in the book, the plot focuses on one of the presumptively ruling males.)
• King, Stephen. The Stand (1978) (several gay characters, good and bad)
• Klages, Ellen. "Time Gypsy" (1999) (time-traveling scientist dykes in 1950s San Francisco)
• Koja, Kathe. Strange Angels
• Klancy7. Tristaine (forthcoming: projected, 2000: Justice House Publishing) (about a city of women, possibly descended from the Amazons. -- Inspired by the online tale "Battle", by Judy (Wishes))
• Koch, Polly. Invisible Borders (1991) (bi character)
• Kocialski, Trish. The Visitors (2004) (lesbian protagonists)
• Kress, Nancy. Maximum Light. (gay boy is one of protagonists)
  --. An Alien Light (1988) (bi female character)
  --. Crossfire (2003) (lesbian character)
  --. Nothing Human (2003) (minor lesbian character)
  
• Kritzer, Naomi. Fires of the Faithful (2002) (lesbian protagonist/love affair)
  --. Turning the Storm (2003) (sequel to Fires of the Faithful)
• Kushner, Elizabeth. "Changeling" in The Essential Bordertown: A Traveller's Guide to the Edge of Faerie, edited by Terri Windling and Delia Sherman (Tor, 1998).
• Kushner, Ellen. Swordspoint, a Melodrama of Manners (1987) (Renaissance fantasy; gay men)
  
• Kushner, Ellen, and Delia Sherman. The Fall of the Kings (2002) (sequel to Swordspoint)
• Kwasny, Melissa. Modern Daughters and the Outlaw West (Spinsters Book, San Francisco, 1990). (A small Wyoming town is infested with quirky lesbians, ghosts, and politics.)

  L

• Lackey, Mercedes.
  Valdemar:
  --. Vanyel: The Books of the Last Herald-Mage: Magic's Pawn (1989; Last Herald-Mage 1); Magic's Promise (1990; Last Herald-Mage 2); Magic's Price (1990; Last Herald-Mage 3) (Trilogy about Vanyel, the Last Herald-Mage of Valdemar, a sensitive, attractive & gifted gay man. In Magic's Pawn 15 year-old Vanyel falls in love with another boy, confronts homophobia, and comes out to his homophobic family. In Magic's Promise we learn that Vanyel has acted as sperm donor for several friends, including a lesbian couple, a gay male couple & their female friend, and a straight couple with male infertility. In the last volume Vanyel falls in love again. This is really one of the classic fantasy gay stories.)
  --. The Mage Wars: The Black Gryphon, The White Gryphon, The Silver Gryphon [gay/bi characters]
  --. The Mage Storms: Storm Warning; sequel Storm Rising (1995) (Two of the principle characters, An'desha and Firesong, are involved in a homosexual relationship.)
  --. The Mage Winds: Winds of Fate, Winds of Change, Winds of Fury [bi/gay side characters, some of same from other series]
  --. Oathbound and Oathbreakers (asexual, presumably lesbian, couple of mercenaries ... )
  --. The Heralds of Valdemar: Arrows of the Queen (1987); Arrow's Flight (1987); Arrow's Fall (1988) [lesbian side characters Keren & Ylsa (Keren's 1st partner) & Sherrill (Keren's 2d partner); some gay characters discussed (legendary heralds Vanyel & Stefen who are the main characters in the Last Herald-Mage trilogy)]]
  -- Exile's Valor (2002) [Keren from The Heralds of Valdemar appears again with her partner Sherrill]
  --. Diana Tregarde series: Children of the Night, Burning Water, Jinx High
  -- and Ellen Guon. Tourney series: Knight of Ghosts and Shadows; Summoned to Tourney [bi]

  --. Bedlam's Bard
  --. Burning Water (1989) [occult mystery; gay side character]
  --. "A Different Kind of Courage" (1985) in Free Amazons of Darkover, edited by Marion Zimmer Bradley [lesbian characters]
  

• Lange, Sue. Tritcheon Hash
• Langford, Diane. Shame About the Street (Serpent's Tail Press). (Really really minor sf content, but the lesbian content is high. Theoretically, this takes place in the "near future", and at the time it was written Langford was projecting increased computerization in the workplace. Hmmm ... -- lq, 6/5/00)
• Lapidus, Jacqueline. "Design for the City of Women," Heresies, no. 3 (Fall 1977). [lesbian culture reproduces parthenogenetically]
• LaTourette, Aileen. Cry Wolf (1986, Virago) (lesbians have started a new civilizatoin after the holocaust)
• Laws, Jay B. Steam (1991, Alyson) ("A vaporous presence is slowly invading San Francisco. One by one, selected gay men are seduced by it - then they disappear, leaving only a ghoulish reminder of their existence. Can anyone stop this shapeless terror?" (from Alyson blurb))
  --. The Unfinished (1993, Alyson)
• Lee, Rand B. "Full Fathom Five My Father Lies," Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Feb. 1981; reprinted in Worlds Apart, ed. DeCarnin, Garber & Paleo (1986). [all-male world]
• Lee, Tanith. "Love Alters" (in Jen Green & Sarah Lefanu, editors, Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind, The Women's Press: 1985) (An unhappy love triangle in the not-too-far future when homosexuality is straight, and heterosexuality an embarrassing queerness.)
  --. Lots of experimental sexuality and bisexuality. See particularly the Flat Earth series, Night's Master, etc.; Drinking Sapphire Wine; The Secret Books of Paradys [e.g., The Book of the Mad]
• LeFanu, J. Sheridan. Carmilla (1872) (originally published in In a Glass Darkly, 1872; reprinted many times) (classic lesbian vampire story)
• Le Guin, Ursula. --. The Left Hand of Darkness. (1969) (Classic work about a race that embodies both genders in each person; see also the other Gethenian stories.)
  --. "The Matter of Seggri" (in a world with few men, men and women are kept separate; young men are encouraged to form homosexual relationships, and sometimes adult men to also; women form sexual and love relationships with each other; heterosexuality is ritualized & reproductive)
  --. "Unchosen Love" and "Mountain Ways" (Both stories take place in the Ekumen universe, on the planet O>, where marriages are of four people, two men and two women, with four pairings between them (two heterosexual, two homosexual), across "moieties" (traditional divisions between "morning" and "evening" people). In these two stories same-sex romances are the centerpieces of complex love / family relationships.)
  --. "Nine Lives" Playboy, Nov. 1969; republished in The Wind's Twelve Quartesr (1975) by Le Guin. --. The Dispossessed (gay & bi side characters)
  --. The Telling (2000) (protagonist is a lesbian; numerous glb characters in a world with "institutionalized homophobia" but with a history of sexual tolerance)
  --. Planet of Exile (1966)
  --. "Solitude" (In a world in the Ekumen universe, young men are encouraged to bond sexually for survival and these same-sex relationships are tolerated and encouraged, within the confines of a society that stresses solitude between adults.)
  --. "Another Story" in A Fisherman of the Inland Sea
• Leiber, Fritz. --. "Slack Tuesday Night in Lankhmar, Featuring Hisvet" (the lesbian scene from The Knight and Knave of Swords
  --. "The Ship (That) Sails at Midnight" in Fantastic Adventures, Sept. 1950; reprinted in The Outer Reachers [Reaches?] : Favorite Science Fiction Tales Chosen by Their Authors, edited by August William Derleth. Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1951. (a woman has been secretly having affairs with all the people in a group separately, both men & women)
  --. The Wanderer (1964) (one lesbian episode)
  --. "The Two Best Thieves in Lankhmar," in Fantastic, Aug. 1968. (A Fafhrd & the Grey Mouser story in which two lesbians outsmart the guys.)
  --. "Dark Wings" in Heroes and Horrors, ed. by Stewart Schiff, (1978) (lesbian inc*st)
  --. Our Lady of Darkness (1977) (homosexual subtexts & minor characters)
• Leibscher, Walt. "Do Androids Dream of Electric Love?" in Strange Bedfellows edited by Thomas N. Scortia (1972) (A psychiatric patient tells his presumably homosexual fantasy to an android psychiatrist who responds flirtatiously. Gender is deliberately ambiguous.)
• Leigh, Stephen. Dark Water's Embrace (1998) (lesbian, transgender; on another world hetero-sex doesn't quite seem to work. homosexuality is officially discouraged & punished since it seems to be non-reproductive, but what do you do with seeming hermaphrodites?)
  --. Speaking Stones (1999) (sequel to Dark Water's Embrace, and continuing the story of the 3-sexed world. It's worth it to point out that the "midmale" (the in-between sex) of the humans are often described as more similar to females than to males; and in fact they writing of them makes them seem more female than male. So their relationships with women feel like lesbian relationships.)
  --. The Bones of God (1986) (alien lesbians)
• Lerman, Rhoda. Book of the Night
• Lerner, Jonathan. Caught In a Still Place (Serpent's Tail: London, 1989; Xlibris.com: print-on-demand. (A very nice post-Decline novel. A small group of people ended up living on the Florida coast after the mysterious Decline. Julian's long-term lover Richard took off before the story begins. Julian meditates on his love for Richard, while he and Jaydie, a woman, begin a love affair. Although the heterosexual relationship in some ways takes a major role in the story, Julian and Richard's gay relationship is also an important part of the story. Lerner also does some very nice things with homophobia & stereotyping: One of the neighbors is the sort of guy Julian would have thought would have been homophobic. This story is about its relationships, and a major one is gay. Hopefully this very nice little (122 pages) novel will get some more attention now that it is available in a print-on-demand form. -- lq, 6/17/2001
• Lethem, Jonathan. Girl in Landscape (1998) (lesbian character)
• Levin, Ira. This Perfect Day [sex is casual & bisexual in the dystopia; lesbian sex is stll okay in the less dystopic place]
• Lewis, Sinclair. It Can't Happen Here. (1935/37?). (Fascists take over the United States, imprisoning Communists, homosexuals, and liberals. The story is really about a straight family-man publisher, Lewis's EveryAmericanMan, & his middle-class resistance, but it seems that gays are not such bad sorts after all, if they're in the same camp you are. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, etc. There is however also an Ernst Roem-esque homosexual among the fascists.)
• Lewitt, Shariann N. Interface Masque (1997) (gay protagonist)
  --. Songs of Chaos (1993) (lesbian characters)
• Livia, Anna. Bulldozer Rising (1988, Onlywomen Press) (Lesbians & old women & young women are regimented, outlawed, or punished, in this surrealistic novel of the future.)
  --. Minimax (1991, Eighth Mountain Press) (Lesbian vampires! Including some very famous lesbian fore-mothers.)
• Lucas, Frances. Cathy IV (1992, New Victoria). (A naive young lesbian is shipwrecked on another planet, and becomes embroiled in their slave economy, when she falls in love with a slave/robot.)
• Lundoff, Catherine. "El Tigre" (in Best Lesbian Erotica 1999, edited by Tristan Taormino and Chrystos; Cleis Press, 1999) (historical lesbian vampire sm porn)
• Lynn, Elizabeth. --. Watchtower (1979) (Chronicles of Tornor 1) (cross-dressing "ghyas," homosexual passion, & cool lesbian sidekicks, in some of the best fantasy written)
  --. Dancers of Arun (1979) (Chronicles of Tornor 2) (gay boy inc*st, sort of, in some of the best fantasy written)
  --. The Northern Girl (1980) (the conclusion to the Chronicles of Tornor trilogy) (homosexuality is no problem & most of our protagonists are lesbians; a hermaphroditic ghya completes the gender-fuck. excellently written, as always.)
  --. A Different Light (1978) (gay)
  --. The Sardonyx Net (1981) (homosexuality is accepted)
  --. Dragon's Winter (the king's male lover is stolen from him & used against him; the rest of the story is about what happens after that. homosexuality, in any case, like in the Tornor stories, does not seem to be a problem.) (1998)
  --. "The Gods of Reorth" in The Berkley Showcase: New Writings in Science Fiction and Fantasy (1980, ed. by Victoria Schochet and John Silbersack) --. "The Man Who Was Pregnant"
  --. "The Woman Who Loved the Moon" in Amazons! (1979) edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
• Lyons, Lynda. Priorities (The Controllers Series) (Naiad Press, 1990). (Apparently planned to be the beginning of a series. A future earth has laws against androids, and controllers to enforce them. Dyke adventure/romance. It wasn't clear to me on which side my sympathies were supposed to lie.)

  M

• MacGregor, Loren J. The Net (1987) (major bi character)
• Maguire, Gregory. Wicked. Minor queer content: discussed that an early major character is having a same-sex affair (a la "Cabaret") with another character; implication that two other characters later on are involved in a same-sex relationship (with a hospice-death? reminiscent of AIDS); some short commentary here & there indicating general acceptance & awareness of same-sex-sexuality.
• Maine, Charles Eric. Alph (also published as World Without Men) (1958) (a world of perverted sick lesbians may yet be saved by cloning a male. homophobic badly written sf)
• Mains, Geoff. Gentle Warriors (Pound Ridg, NY: Knights Press, 1989) [male homosexuals; AIDS virus; future fascistic US]
• Malzberg, Barry N.
  --. "Going Down" (originally published in Dystopian Visions, edited by Roger Elwood (1975)) (An odd story about a possibly psychopathic person who explores his sexuality through The Institute.)
  --. Beyond Apollo (1972) [dysfunctional gay love results in murder]
  --. "Culture Lock" in Future City, edited by Roger Elwood, 1973. [gay relationship]
  --. "In the Stocks" in New Dimensions Seven, ed. by Robert Silverberg (1977) [sequel to "Culture Lock"]
  --. The Sodom and Gomorrah Business (1974) [female oppression; fascism; two evil fascist homosexual characters]
  --. "State of the Art" in New Dimensions Four, edited by Robert Silverberg, 1974 [various famous historical literary people including Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklas]
  --. Tactics of Conquest (1974)
• Mandeville, Sir John. [pseudonym]. Voiage and Travayle of Syr John Maundeville, Knight (1499, 1500?). [traveler encounters many things including an amazon island and an island of the 'third sex']
• Mannheim, Linda. "Love, Trouble, and Time" (in New Amazons, edited by Margaret Weis, 2000) (a lesbian & her escaped-from-prison (political prisoner) lesbian lover get together, while the escapee tries to see Grandma in the hospital. sweet & rather melancholy)
• Marah, Jasmine. "Catching a Spirit" Sinister Wisdom, Berkeley, Ca. (no. 34), 1988. [lesbian]
• Marano, Michael. Dawn Song (Tor, 1998)
• Marion. Spiderwomon's Lesbian Fairy Tales (Stanford, Conn.: New Moon Communications, 1977)
• Marks, Laurie. Dancing Jack (major character is bisexual & involved with a woman; other multiple-partner family structures are normal)
  --. Delan the Mislaid (hermaphrodites)
  --. Elemental Logic series: Fire Logic (2002); Earth Logic (2004) [a society which accepts without comment same-sex relations and various family forms]
• Marley, Louise. The Terrorists of Irustan (2000) (lesbian character)
• Martinac, Paula. Out of Time (1990 Seal Press; 1990 Lambda winner for best lesbian fiction.) (Modern dyke is haunted by dykes from the 1920s.)
• Mathews, Patricia. "Camilla" in Sword of Chaos, edited by Marion Zimmer Bradley (1982) [story about Camilla from Darkover Free Amazons]
• Mathur, Ashok. Once Upon an Elephant (1999). (Indian fantasy novel with gay characters.)
• Matthews, Susan R. --. An Exchange of Hostages (1)
  --. Prisoner of Conscience (2)
  --. Hour of Judgment (3) (The protagonist is an unwilling professional torturer and slave-owner in a galactic society. The protagonist is not gay but there is a very strong bond between him and his slaves, and it is certainly implied that homosexuality is at least somewhat acceptable; homoeroticism)
• May, Julian. The Many-Colored Land (1981; Pliocene Exile 1) (One of the characters, Felice, is a lesbian; dainty-looking but tough as nails (and probably slightly insane). While some characters have heterosex, she never does, but does make several unsuccessful passes at another female (straight) character. Although the portrayal of her sexuality isn't exactly a success, she's still a very interesting character.)
  --. The Golden Torc (1982; Pliocene Exile 2)
  --. The Nonborn King (1983; Pliocene Exile 3)
  --. The Adversary (1984; Pliocene Exile 4)
• McArthur, Maxine. Time Future (2001) (minor lesbian character, according to lesbiansciencefiction.com)
• McHugh, Maureen. China Mountain Zhang (1992, Tor): (young gay male in future century)
  --. Mission Child. (1998) (No gay sex, but a transgendered protagonist; a woman who, disguising herself as a man, then finding her own "two-spirit" self, then trying to be a woman, then giving up & becoming sort-of a man, sort-of a neuter.)
• McIntyre, Vonda. --. "Screwtop" in The Crystal Ship, edited by Robert Silverberg (1976) [bisexual]
  --. "Looking for Satan" in Thieves' World III: Shadows of Sanctuary, edited by Robert Lynn Asprin (1981) [part of Bradley's Lythande stories]
  --. Starfarers (1989) (bisexual)
  
• McKay, Claudia. Promise of the Rose Stone (Norwich, VT: New Victoria Publishers, 1986; ISBN 0-934678-09-X) (a Federation rules Earth, with the assistance of a perhaps-enslaved mysterious satellite-sized being. Our protagonist Isa, a mountain warrior, travels to a Federation village, and then is sent to the satellite where women are bred for unknown purposes ... Isa & one of her new-found pals plot an escape.)
• M'Clatchey, Gwen. "Short Skirts and Patriarchs" in S. G. Johnson's Dangerous Women (lesbian terrorists short story -- I *loved* this story -- lq)
• McMahan, Jeffrey. Vampires Anonymous (1991, Alyson) - (follows the story of Andrew the gay vampire ... )
  --. Somewhere in the Night: Eight Gay Tales of the Supernatural; alternatively subtitled: Stories of Suspense (1989: Alyson) (8 short stories) (Lambda Award winner) [several stories about Andrew the gay vampire]
• McMahon, Donna. Dance of Knives (2001) (major lesbian characters)
• Meluch, Rebecca M. Sovereign (male-male)
• Menstruum. Spiderwomon's Lesbian Fairy Tales (1977: New Moon communications, Stamford, Connecticut)
• Merliss, Mark. An Arrow's Flight (1998). (Fascinating retelling of the Trojan War, entwined with the gay 70s & 80s & the oncoming, also seemingly interminable, war with AIDS ...)
• Merrick, Curt. "Half a World," ONE Magazine [Los Angeles], Dec. 1954. [a dream of the future where there is no homophobia]
• Miller, P. Schuyler. "Status Quondam" in New Tales of Space and Time, edited by Raymond J. Healy (New York: Henry Holt, 1951) [man travels back in time to ancient Greece and is offended by homosexuality]
• Mindancer. Tales of Emoria: Future Dreams (2001)
• Minns, Karen Marie Christa. Virago (Naiad, 1990) - (lesbian couple threatened by a lesbian vampire ... )
  --. Bloodsong (1997) - sequel to Virago
  --. Calling Rain (1991, Naiad) - (lesbian scientists studying real live Sasquatch apes)
• Mitchel, Lorna. The Revolution of Saint Jone (London: Women's Press, 1988) (a flighty young woman is assigned to a religious mission, but finds herself more in sympathy with the folk she is supposed to be missioning to. perhaps in part because she falls in love with someone on the other side.)
• Mitchison, Naomi. Solution Three (written 1970; published Feminist Press, 1975) (homosexuality is the preferred mode of living)
  --. "The Delicate Fire" in The Delicate Fire (1931) [lesbian theme; non-sf]
• Mixon, Laura. Proxies. (The protagonist's nephew and secretary are a queer couple. Bisexuality / queerness seem nothing to be remarked upon in this future earth.)
  --. Glass Houses (lesbian characters)
  --. Burning the Ice (2002) (minor lesbian character)
  
• Moon, Elizabeth. The Deeds of Paksenarrion (protagonist maybe asexual, but lesbians & homosexuality in the book)
  --. Sporting Chance (lesbian)
• Moorcock, Michael.
  --. Gloriana (1979) (fantasy about Elizabeth; queer characters)
  --. The Cornelius Chronicles (1977) [includes The Final Programme (1968), A Cure for Cancer (1971), The English Assassin (1974), and The Condition of Muzak (1977)]
  --. Breakfast in the Ruins (1972) [homosexual affair is central]
  --. The Adventures of Una Persson and Catherine Cornelius in the Twentieth Century (London, Quarter, 1976) [bisexual women]
  --. "Waiting for the End of Time" (1970)
• Mootoo, Shani. Cereus Blooms at Night (1996, Press Gang) (magic realism; transgendered boy is the narrator, and a butchy girl is a later character, and the whole story is triggered in part by a lesbian love affair)
• Morehouse, Lyda. Messiah Node (2003) (lesbian character)
  --. Archangel Protocol (2001) (lesbian character)
  --. Apocalypse Array (2004) (lesbian character)
  --. Fallen Host (2002) (bi/tg characters)
• Morgan, Richard. Woken Furies (2005) (minor lesbian characters are lovers)
• Moriarty, Chris. Spin State (2003) (bi character)
• Morris, Janet. "Hell" (shared world with same-sex sexuality)
• Morrow, James. Only Begotten Daughter (a lesbian character in this story about Jesus' modern sister)
• Morse, David. The Iron Bridge (1998) (lesbian character)
• Murphy, Pat. Nadya: The Wolf Chronicles (1996) (a bisexual werewolf in the 19th century involved with a woman subject to lesbian panic)
  --. There and Back Again (1999). (Numerous peripheral lesbian characters, although this is not a big theme particularly.)
• Mushroom, Merril. Daughters of Khaton (1987, Lace Publications). (Lesbian relationships in an all-woman society. Interesting when one of the women on a mostly-male space crew joins the planet, falls in love, and has to deal with her monogamous possessive ideas of relationships in a seemingly more free-swinging society. -- lq, 5/14/00)

  N

• Nader, George. Chrome. (1978) (Alyson) (gay porno) (Alyson's blurb: "It is death to love a robot. But in their desert training ground, Chrome and King Vortex are forming a forbidden bond that could lead to intergalactic warfare.")
• Namjoshi, Suniti. The Conversations of a Cow (1985) (in which an Indian lesbian cow appears to the author and takes her on an extraordinary journey" -- The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women )
• Neff, Lisa Marie. "Sister Wolf" in Lesbian Short Fiction #1, edited by Jinx Beers (lesbian magic realism)
• Newport, Cris. Queen's Champion: The Legend of Lancelot Retold (1997, Pride Publications)
  --. The White Bones of Truth (1994, Pride Pubctns) (an actress and a hermaphrodite may start a revolution)

  O

• Oakgrove, Artemis. The Raging Peace (1984) (Throne Trilogy 1) (lesbian fantasy porn)
  --. Dreams of Vengeance (1985) (Throne 2) (lesbian fantasy porn)
  --. Throne of Council (1986) (Throne 3) (lesbian fantasy porn)
  
• Ore, Rebecca. Outlaw School (2000) (minor lesbian character)
• Orloff, Alvin. I Married an Earthling (2000; Manic D Press) (humorous gay sf / ya?)

  P

• Pangborn, Edgar. Davy (some gay stuff peripherally mentioned; lesbianism sort of referred to)
  --. A Company of Glory (supposedly gay in its original form)
  --. A Mirror for Observers (1954) (some gay content?)
  --. Still I Persist in Wondering
• Park, Severna. Speaking Dreams (Firebrand, 1992) (good writing - lesbians in a universe with slaves fighting the odds to be together)
  --. Hand of Prophecy (set in same universe as Speaking Dreams)
  --. The Annunciate (1999) (lesbian character) [a different series]
• Patton, Fiona. The Stone Prince (Daw, 1997) (gay fantasy romance; same-sex relationships are common)
  --. The Painter Knight (prequel to The Stone Prince)
  --. The Granite Shield
• Perry, Steve. Matadora (1986) A Black martial artist ends up in another martial arts school. She has a long-term lesbian love affair with another martial artist. Later she ends up in a three-way relationship with a man and a woman. No gay male sex, but Perry isn't pulling any punches with the lesbianism: the women love one another, have no shame, and nobody is dissing them for it. Racism not an issue, homophobia not an issue; everybody is just fighting the good fight together.
  --. The Albino Knife (1991)
  Part of the Matador series including The 97th Step, The Man Who Never Missed, Matadora, The Machiavelli Interface, The Albino Knife, Black Steele, Brother Death
• Picano, Felice. Dryland's End (1995) (Far, far future universe, run by technological matriarchy; gay protagonist and relatively lots of other homosexuality.)
  --. An Asian Minor (1981) (Zeus & Ganymede)
• Pierce, David M. Elf Child (Southern Tier Editions)
• Piercy, Marge. Woman on the Edge of Time. (1976) (Queerness is accepted in the possible future world; and bisexuality seems to be the norm.)
  --. Dance the Eagle to Sleep. (Some lesbian activity amongst our young rebels.)
• Plowright, Teresa. Dreams of an Unseen Planet (some lesbian content; )
• Pollack, Rachel. Godmother Night (St. Martin's Press, 1996). (lesbian couple involved with Mother Death, and their lesbian daughter)
  --. Unquenchable Fire (1988)
  --. Temporary Agency (1994) (grown-up lesbian protagonist annoyed at lesbian detective, her ex-girlfriend; same world as Unquenchable Fire)
  --. Doom Patrol
• Potts, Cherry. Mosaic of Air - (collection of short stories. Included several sf, fantasy, or magical-real stories. "Mosaic of Air"; "Arachnë's Daughters" (a talk from the Lesbo-Arachnid League of Friendship); "The Bone Box"; "Behind the Mask" (a Helen of Troy story); "Penelope is No Longer Waiting" (Trojan War, Penelope).)
• Pratchett, Terry. Feet of Clay (transgender issues)
  --. Jingo
  --. The Last Continent
  --. The Fifth Elephant
• Preston, John. Tales from the Dark Lord II (1994) (one of the gay pornographers turns his hand to horror & the supernatural)
• Pullman, Philip. The Amber Spyglass. [Gay angels Baruch & Balthamos in the third book of His Dark Materials trilogy.]

  Q

• Quick, W. T. "Whatever Gets You Through the Night" in Amazing Stories (March 1990)

  R

• Randall, Marta. Journey (male-male)
  --. Dangerous Games (male-male)
• Reamy, Tom. San Diego Lightfoot Sue and Other Stories
  
• Reed, Rick R. A Face Without a Heart (horror)
  Penance (1993)
• Rice, Anne. Well, what can I say. A gay icon. Not much lesbian content though. Try:
  
• Rivers, Diana, 1931- .
  --. Daughters of the Great Star (Lace Publications, 1992) (Hadra 1) (The founding of the women's society, the Hadra.) --. The Hadra(Lace Publications, 1995) (Hadra 2) (Sequel to Daughters of the Great Star)
  --. Journey to Zelindar (Lace Publications, 1987) (Hadra 3) (A country of lesbian separatists, the Hadra, is protected by the Goddess in a patriarchal society. Sair of Semasi escapes her country after a rape and is taken in by the Hadra.) --. The Red Line of Yarmald (Bella Books)
• Robinson, Frank. Waiting. (Forge, 1999). (Horror story, w/ gay & lesbian peripheral characters.) (ISBN 0312866526)
  --. The Dark Beyond the Stars (1991) (gay protagonist) (won a Lambda)
• Robinson, Jane. The Amazon Chronicles (1994)
• Robinson, Spider. The Callahan Touch
  --. Callahan's Legacy
  (Recent additions to Robinson's Callahan's Crosstime Saloon series, containing gay characters; some gay references in earlier books in the series too.)
  --. Time Pressure
• Rosen, Selina. Fire and Ice [near-future; gays & lesbians segregated]
  --. Hammer Town (2002) (lesbian character)
  
• Rosenblum, Mary. Chimera (1993) (cyberpunk; a major male character is gay; major lesbian character) [Del Rey - ISBN 0345385284]
• Rubin, Marty. The Boiled Frog Syndrome: A Novel of Love, Sex and Politics. (1987: Alyson) (religious fundamentalist homophobes take over America; a Resistance movement operates out of Europe. the story really focuses on telling "how it got that way" and about the sexploits of the protagonist in Europe, missing his boyfriend who's still stuck back in the States in a concentration camp)
• Rudnick, Paul. The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told (2000, Overlook Press). (Indeed, God did create Adam and Steve, and Jane and Mabel. Two plays.)
• Russ, Joanna. The Female Man (1975) (novel, in part about Whileaway, a world of only women. This is one of the classic feminist sf novels of the 1970s, and should not be missed.)
  --. "When It Changed" (first story published about Whileaway) (initially published: 1972, in Again, Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison)
  --. And Chaos Died (1970) (gay protagonist)
  --. We who are about to .... (1977, 1978)
  --. On Strike Against God (1980, 1985) (lesbian love story; not sf)
  --. Kittatinny: A Tale of Magic (1978)
  --. "Existence" in Epoch (1975, 1977, edited by Roger Elwood) --. "Nobody's Home" in Women of Wonder (1975, edited by Sargent)
  --. "The Second Inquisition" in More Women of Wonder (1976, ed. by Sargent)
  
• Russell, Mary Doria. The Sparrow (some gay characters)
  --. The Children of God (sequel to The Sparrow)
• Ryman, Geoff. The Child Garden (In the future, humans and their society hav ebeen greatly changed; homosexuality doesn't exist; one woman is born different. While the focus is on the lesbian protagonist and her relationship, homosexuality is just one aspect of her difference. Recommended.)
  --. The Warrior Who Carried Life (body shifting)
  --. Was (1992) (magic realism; gay characters, inc*st, AIDS; Wizard of Oz theme)
  --. 253
  

  S

• S, Davy. Gay Vampire (1969) (gay vampire porno)
• Salmonson, Jessica Amanda, with Jules Remedios Faye. Wisewomen & Boggy-boos: A Dictionary of Lesbian Fairy Lore (1992: Banned Books, Austin, Texas) (lesbian fairy "dictionary" with amusing stories, puns, parables)
• Salmonson, Jessica Amanda. The Disfavored Hero (1981) (bi character)
• Sanchez, Gregory. Rainbow Arc of Fire - a glb magic/adventure series
  A Mile-High Saga (1996) (#1)
  Autumn Saga (1997) (#2)
  Souls Within Stone (1997) (#3)
  Worlds Beneath Us (1998) (#4)
  Slight of Mind (1998) (#5)
  Harmony of Spheres (1999) (#6)
• Sandler, Helen, editor. Necrologue (Diva Books)
• Sargent, Pamela. The Shore of Women (1986)
• Schiefelbein, Michael. Vampire Thrall (Alyson Publications)
• Schimel, Lawrence. The Drag Queen of Elfland and Other Stories (The Ultra Violet Library (Circlet Press), 1-885865-17-1, 1998). (17 cute stories, both gay & lesbian)
  
• Schulman, J. Neil. The Rainbow Cadenza (gay man is a side character (actually a higher-up political official, so homosexuality seems to be rather acceptable); interesting ideas about sex; mandatory female prostitution (sort of a female draft) and accepted rape of members of the underclass. interesting book overall.)
• Scott, Jody. I, Vampire (1984)
• Scott, Melissa.
  --. The Game Beyond (1984)
  --. A Choice of Destinies (1986) (gay male protagonists)
  --. Mighty Good Road (1990) (lesbian protagonist / adventure)
  --. Dreamships (1992) (many gay characters)
  --. Burning Bright (1993) (lesbian protagonist; lots of bisexuality)
  --. Trouble and Her Friends (1994) (dyke cyberpunk; 2 lesbian hackers & other glb friends)
  --. Shadow Man (aka Shadowman) (1995) (hermaphodites of various sorts & sexual persuasions in a society where humans have mutated)
  --. Night Sky Mine (1996) (young coming-out lesbians & a gay male couple too)
  --. Dreaming Metal (1997) (sequel to Dreamships (1992); many g/l characters)
  --. The Shapes of Their Hearts (1998) (lesbian character)
  --. The Jazz (2000) (bi protagonist)
  
• Scott, Melissa, and Lisa Barnett. --. The Armor of Light (1988) (gay male characters; gay King James VI)
  --. Point of Hopes (lots of bisexuality)
• Seay, Jody. The Second Coming of Curly Red (1999). (Ideal quirky small-town people battle homophobia; some minor fantasy elements, like heaven.)
• Shepard, Lucius. "Life of Buddha" in Omni (May 1988); also in Second Annual Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, edited by Ellen Datlow and T. Windling)
  --. "A Traveler's Tale" in Asimov's July 1984
• Sheppard, Simon. "Blackout" in Sexcrime: An Anthology of Subversive Erotica edited by Cecilia Tan (Circlet Press: 2000) (Gay men in a post-virus world where sex is frowned upon.)
• Sherman, Delia. Through a Brazen Mirror: The Famous Flower of Servingmen (1989) (gay king and passing-woman; lesbian attraction)
  --. The Porcelain Dove (lesbian / fairy tale)
• Sinisalo, Johanna. Troll: A Love Story (2000; Finnish to English transl. 2003 by Herbert Lomas) (gay male protagonist)
• Singer, Rochelle. The Demeter Flower (1980) (lesbian separatism) (pseudonym for Shelley Singer)
• Singleton, Jacqui. Heartstone & Saber (Rising Tide Press, 1994) (lesbian fantasy sword-and-sorcery)
• Slater, Philip. How I Saved the World (1985) (bi character)
• Slesar, Henry. "Ersatz" (first published in Harlan Ellison's Dangerous Visions, 1967) (a nicely homophobic little tale in which we see how horrible endless war is, because it's destroyed all the good food and all the good fuckable women, leaving good soldiers only hairy-legged transsexuals to fuck - what a nightmare )
• Slonczewski, Joan. A Door Into Ocean (1986) (all female aquatic race that reproduces by parthenogenesis)
  --. The Children Star (1998) (an immortal lesbian couple has a central role)
  --. Daughter of Elysium (1993) (lesbian character)
  --. Still Forms on Foxfield (1980) (lesbian character)
  --. Brain Plague (2000) (lesbian character)
• Smith, Stephanie. Other Nature (1995) (bi character)
• Smith, Thorne. Turnabout (1931) (gender switching)
• Soles, Caro. Meltdown (gay fantasy)
• Spencer, Wen. Ukiah Oregon series. Bitter Waters, Tainted Trail, etc. The protagonist was adopted and raised by a lesbian couple as a child. In Dog Warrior, the main character is gay and involved in a long-term relationship.
• Spinrad, Norman. Journals of the Plague Years (all about AIDS & future-sex in America)
  --. A World Between (1979) (war between female and male supremacists)
• Springer, Nancy. Larque on the Wing: (middle-aged straight woman becomes young gay man temporarily.)
  --. Fair Peril (1996) (librarian protagonist; gay Black male librarian)
  --. Metal Angel (1994) (gay character)
  --. Apocalypse (secondary character is MTF lesbian)
  --. Madbond
  --. Mindbond
  --. Godbond
• Starhawk. The Fifth Sacred Thing (1993) (in this contrasting Northern California utopia (contrasted with a Souther California dystopia) most people seem to be bisexual just naturally, and both the male and female protagonists are shown to have lovers of both sexes. A fairy-land for gay men in San Francisco is also mentioned.)
  --. prequel; bisexuality.
• Steele, Allen. The Tranquility Alternative (1996) (lesbian character)
• Stein, Eugene. Straitjacket and Tie (1996) (comedy sf; coming out & ET)
• Sterling, Bruce. Zeitgeist (2000) (minor lesbian character)
• Stewart, Jean. Return to Isis (1993) (1)
  --. Isis Rising (2)
  --. Warriors of Isis (3)
  --. Wizard of Isis (2004) (#5) (The Isis stories are a post-holocaust lesbian separatist epic trilogy; lesbian romantic adventure.)
• Stewart, Sean. Nobody's Son (1995) (some discussion about a female same-sex love, taken with aplomb by the male characters in love with the women)
• Stinson, Susan. Martha Moody The Women's Press. (magical realist lesbian love story)
• Stirling, S. M. Island in the Sea of Time (1998) (One of the major narrative characters is an African-American lesbian Coast Guard captain, who gets involved in a love affair during the course of the novel.)
• Stone, Charlotte. Cheon of Weltanland: Book I: The Four Wishes (1983). (B&D with a lesbian protagonist)
• Stone, Kyle. The Initiation of PB 500. (Gay boy SM porn)
• Strieber, Whitley. The Hunger (1981) (bisexual vampirism)
• Sturgeon, Theodore. "The Sex Opposite" in E. Pluribus Unicorn (1953 and 1965) (parthenogenesis / androgyny)
  --. "The World Well Lost" (originally published in Universe; reprinted in Thomas N. Scortia's Strange Bed Fellows: Sex and Science Fiction (Random House: 1972); © 1966, Theodore Sturgeon.) Possibly the first science fiction story to deal directly with homosexuality. This story got Sturgeon a lot of fan mail apparently. A pair of alien lovers lands on earth, but their home world extradites them from earth. While they are being returned to earth, a crew member discovers they are telepathic, and must take action to protect his own secrets. Really a wonderful story.
  --. Venus Plus X (1960) (a unisex society; homophobia)
  --. Microcosmic God
  --. "The Widget, the Wadget and Boff"
  --. "Affair with a Green Monkey"
• Sturgis, Donnárd. "Half Life" in The Essential Bordertown: A Traveller's Guide to the Edge of Faerie, edited by Terri Windling and Delia Sherman (Tor, 1998).
• Sussex, Lucy. "My Lady Tongue" in My Lady Tongue [lesbian]
  --. "The Queen of Erewhon"
  --. "Melusine" in The Horns of Elfland

  T

• Tan, Cecelia. Black Feathers: Erotic Dream (1998) (Collection of queer erotic sf/fantasy/horror stories)
  --. "Tale of Christina" (lesbian vampire; in Black Feathers and Dark Angels)
  --. "Blood Ties" (gay leather vampire; in Black Feathers)
  
• Tarr, Judith. Lord of the Two Lands (1993) (Alexander the Great fantasy)
  --. Queen of the Amazons (2004) (bi protagonist)
• Tepper, Sheri. Shadow's End (One of the principal character's only sex & love relationship was lesbian)
  --. Six Moon Dance (1998) (a major lesbian character)
  --. Gibbon's Decline & Fall (1996) (lesbian character)
• Thomas, Thomas T. Crygender (1992) (the person about whom the central mystery revolves is a gender-fuck -- gender-neutral or transgender or what? that's part of the mystery)
• Tiptree, Jr., James. "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" (1976) (lesbian after all)
• Townsend, Larry. 2069+2. (gay boy porn)
• Turtledove, Harry. "The Great Unknown" in Analog April-June 1991
  --. "Bedfellows" in Fantasy & Science Fiction (June 2005)

U

• Ulrichs, Karl Heinrich. Sailors' Tales (Matrosengeschichten) (1884). Includes "Manor", perhaps the first gay male vampire story. (This is the Ulrichs who was the German gay activist.)

  V

• Varley, John. Gaean Trilogy: Titan, Wizard, Demon (major bi character; love b/w major character & another woman are central plot)
  --. "Her Girl Friday" in Asimov's August 1992
  --. Lots of Varley's work depicts transgender characters, multi-gender societies, and bi/omni-sexual characters.
• Vicki. Sleeping Beauty: A Lesbian Fairy Tales (1971, chapbook, Sojourner Truth Press, Atlanta, Georgia)
• Vonarburg, Elisabeth. In the Mother's Land (situational but enthusiastic lesbianism)
  --. The Silent City (1988)
  

  W

• Walker, Barbara G. Amazon (1992)
• Warner, Sylvia Townsend. Lolly Willowes. (1926) (Lovely novel written in the early 20th century about a spinster who becomes a witch, maybe, and has truck with the devil, maybe, and maybe lesbian sex too.)
  --. "The Blameless Triangle"; appeared originally in The New Yorker; collected in Kingdoms of Elfin (1977) (Several males of the an elfin kingdom leave the kingdom; after becoming impoverished they encourage the youngest of their members to prostitute himself to a local Governor. However, another of their members ends up staying with the Governor for the rest of their lives.)
  --. "The Revolt at Brocéliande"; appeared originally in The New Yorker; collected in Kingdoms of Elfin (1977) (Two male changelings are castrated and made into eunuchs at the whim of an elfin queen; they live their lives together.)
• Waters, Sarah. Affinity (1999, UK) - (victorian sapphism, with a dark story about women's prisons and spiritualism)
• Weathers, Brenda. The House at Pelham Falls (1986, Naiad) (lesbian ghost story)
  --. Miss Pettibone and Miss McGraw (1995, Naiad) (ghost story)
• Wells, Jesse. "Succubus" in The Dress / The Sharda Stories. San Francisco: Library B Productions, 1986. (lesbian demon)
• Welles, Paul O. Project Lambda. Port Washington, NY: Ashley, 1979. [future fascist state which sets up concentration camps for male homosexuals]
• Wells, John J. [pseud. for Marion Zimmer Bradley & Juanita Coulson], "Another Rib," The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (June, 1963) [when an all-male crew returns from outer space to discover Earth destroyed, they have to figure out how to reproduce with each other]
• Welsh, Lindsay. Second Sight (lesbian superhero has superpowers of sex, too! fighting evil & satisfying women, all at the same time)
• Westerfeld, Scott. Polymorph (1997) - (a shape-changer, born woman, can be male or female; has lesbian, straight, and gay sex; the protagonist seems to identify as female. at one point she actively resents a shape-changer who identifies as male butting in on dyke-turf. nice sf'al dyke bar scene.)
  --. Fine Prey (1998) (lesbian / bi protagonist)
  --. The Risen Empire (2003) (lesbian characters) --. The Killing of Worlds (2003) (lesbian characters)
  
• Weston, Susan B. Children of the Light (1985) (post-apocalyptic time travel with a surprise lesbian affair)
• Whyte, Christopher. The Warlock of Strathearn (1997, Gollancza) - 0-575-40122-2
• Wilde, Oscar. The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888) (fairy tales)
  --. A House of Pomegranates (1891) (fairy tales)
  --. Portrait of Dorian Gray [aka The Picture of Dorian Gray] (1890) (horror)
• Wilhelm, Kate. Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang (1976) (clones have promiscuous sex with their identical clone sibs, and en masse with other clone sibs. both females and males participate in same-sex sexual activity with their clones, although outside of clone-lines, only heterosex is mentioned)
  --. The Clewiston Test (1976) (lesbian side character)
  --. "The Funeral" in Again, Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison (1972) [girls' school lesbianism schoolmistress]
• Williams, Karen. Love Spell (1992, Rising Tide Press) (lesbian love story)
  -- Nightshade (1996, Rising Tide Press) (new age lesbian fantasy mystery w/ cats)
• Williams, Michelle D. "Moondancer" in Sinister Wisdom [Berkeley, California], no. 34 (1988) (lesbian protagonist)
• Williamson, Shirley. "A Victorian Ending" in Lesbian Short Fiction #1, edited by Jinx Beers (lesbian vampire)
• Wilson, Anna. Hatching Stones (London: Onlywomen Press, 1991) (gay men interested in cloning)
  --. "The Reach" in The Reach and Other Stories, edited by Lilian Mohin and Sheila Shulman (London: Onlywomen Press, 1984)
• Wilson, Robert Charles. The Chronoliths (2001) (lesbian character)
• Winterson, Jeanette. Gut Symmetries
  --. Sexing the Cherry
  --. The Passion
  (Sexing the Cherry and The Passion both involve historical fantastic fiction; Gut Symmetries is more ... err ... modernistically surrealist.)
• Wittig, Monique. Les Guerillères (1971) (classic lesbian-feminist separatism)
• Wolfe, Chris Anne. Shadows of Aggar (1991, New Victoria Publishers) (amazon romance; primary lesbian content) (1 of 2)
  --. Fires of Aggar (1994) (amazon romance; primary lesbian content) (2 of 2)
  --. Bitter Thorns (retelling of Beauty & the Beast); reissued as Roses and Thorns: Beauty and the Beast Retold
  --. Annabel and I (fantasy)
• Woolf, Virginia. Orlando: A Biography (1928) (gender-switching)
• Womack, Jack. Random Acts of Senseless Violence (1993) (teen lesbian coming out)
• Wylie, Philip. The Disappearance (1951)
• Wyndham, John. "Consider Her Ways" (pseudonym for John Beynon Harris)

  Y

• Yolen, Jane. Sister Light, Sister Dark (1988)
  --. White Jenna (1989)
  --. Briar Rose (gay man)
  --. Cards of Grief (gay)
• Young, Donna J. Retreat: As It Was! (Naiad, 1979) (A long, long time ago, the human race is all women ... )

  Z

• Zana. "Man Plague," Sinister Wisdom [Berkeley, California], no. 34 (1988) [lesbian separatist; all the men die]
• Zettel, Sarah. Playing God (1993)
• Zanger, Molleen. The Year Seven (1993, Naiad) (the world has ended & most of the men have died; a bunch of women gather into a little group; a couple already identified as lesbian; a few others begin identifying as lesbian; and the rest are just really happy when one of the few men left rolls through town)
  --. Gardenias Where There Are None (1994, Naiad) (ghost story obsession)

Anthologies

Queer, with Some SF, Fantastic, Horror, Magical Content

• Beers, Jinx, editor. Lesbian Short Fiction #1. 4 fantasy / sf stories out of 21.
• Hardy, J. E. Perfect Pitch: Lesbian Feminist Fiction (1991, Onlywomen Press)
• Trevelyan, Julie K., and Scott Brassart, editors. Wilma Loves Betty and Other Hilarious Gay & Lesbian Parodies (Alyson, 1999)

  SF Etc., with More Than "Just a Little" Queer Content

• Brownworth, Victoria A. Night Bites: Vampire Stories by Women (1996, Seal) - not explicitly or completely lesbian, but lots of lesbian vampires ...
• Keesey, Pam. Women Who Run with the Werewolves. (Cleis, 1996)
• Sturgis, Susanna, editor. Memories and Visions: Women's Fantasy and Science Fiction (1989)
  --. The Women Who Walk Through Fire (1990)
  
• Tan, Cecelia, editor.
  --. Blood Kiss (1994) (7 erotic vampire stories)
  --. Cherished Blood: Vampire Erotica (1997) (includes straights)
  --. Of Princes & Beauties: Erotic Fairy Tales for Adults (1996) (includes straight & gay)
• Reed, Strauch, Devereaux. The Darkest Thirst (1998). Includes a lesbian vampire story "On Line" by Rick R. Reed.

  Entirely Queer, Entirely SF (etc.)

• Bowen, Gary R. Cyber-Magick: Lesbian SF (1995, Triangle Press - lesbian sf). Includes Tippi N. Blevins, Emily Alward, Lela E. Buis, and Gwen M'Clatchey. (Including one excellent story (M'Clatchey?) about two dykes blowing up the Washington Monument.)
• Brassart, Scott, and Julie K. Trevelyan, editors. The Ghost of Carmen Miranda and Other Spooky Gay and Lesbian Tales (Alyson, 1998)
• Decarnin, Camilla, and Eric Garber and Lyn Paleo, editors. Worlds Apart: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Science Fiction and Fantasy. (1986) (11 gl stories)
• Elliot, Jeffrey M, editor. Kindred Spirits: An Anthology of Gay and Lesbian Science Fiction Stories (Alyson, 1984) (12 g/l stories)
• Ford, Michael, editor. Once Upon a Time: Erotic Fairy Tales for Women (Masquerade, 1996)
  --. Happily Ever After: Erotic Fairy Tales for Men
• Garber, Eric, editor. Embracing the Dark (Alyson, 1991) (gay-lesbian horror) (11 stories)
• Garber, Eric, and Jewelle Gomez, editors. Swords of the Rainbow (Alyson, 1996) (14 lbg stories, including one "Gilda" story by Gomez)
• Griffith, Nicola, and Stephen Pagel, editors. Bending the Landscape: Fantasy (1996) (22 g/l stories)
  --. Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction (Overlook, 1998)
  --. Bending the Landscape: Horror (2001)
• Keesey, Pam, editor. Daughters of Darkness: Lesbian Vampire Stories (1993) (mostly modern short stories; includes LeFanu's "Carmilla")
  --. Dark Angels: Lesbian Vampire Stories (1995)
  
• Labonte, Richard, editor. Close Encounters of a Queer Kind (lesbian & gay erotic sf). forthcoming from Masquerade, 1999?
• Mann, William J., editor. Grave Passions: Tales of the Gay Supernatural (BadBoy, 1997; ISBN 1-56333-405-4)
• Norris, Gregory. Ghost Kisses: Gothic Gay Romance Stories (1994)
• Rowe, Michael. Brothers of the Night: Gay Male Vampire Stories (1997, Cleis)
  --, with Thomas S. Roche. Sons of Darkness: Tales of Men, Blood, and Immportality (1996, Cleis) (gay male vampire stories)
  --. Queer Fear (2000) (gay horror)
• Schimel, Lawrence, editor. Things Invisible to See: Gay and Lesbian Tales of Magic Realism g/l magic realism anthology
• Tan, Cecilia, editor.
  --. Genderflex: Sexy Stories on the Edge and In-Between
  --. Worlds of Women: Sapphic Science Fiction Erotica
  --. The New Worlds of Women: Sapphic SF Erotica (1996)
  --. Wired Hard: Erotica for a Gay Universe (1994)
  --. Wired Hard 2: More Erotica for a Gay Universe
  

• Also check out the Feminist SF/F/Utopia anthology page which includes lesbigay anthologies

Drama / Plays

• Busch, Charles. Vampire Lesbians of Sodom (1988)
  --. Sleeping Beauty, or, Coma (1988)

Fanzines

• Lisa Ben's Vice Versa (1950s?)
• Jim Kepner's Toward Tomorrow (1950s?)

Graphic Novels / Comics

• The Authority: Under New Management (DC)
• Doran, Colleen. A Distant Soil (Image)
• Foglio, Phil. XXXenophile (adult comic)
• Wagner, Matt. Grendel: Warchild
• Zora: La Vampira (1975; Italian comic) (lesbian vampire)

Nonfiction / Criticism / Bibliography

• Benshoff, Harry M. Monsters in the Closet: Homosexuality and the Horror Film (1997) (analysis of homoerotic content of horror films)
• Garber, Eric, and Lyn Paleo, editors. Uranian Worlds: A Reader's Guide to Alternative Sexuality in Science Fiction and Fantasy (1990); 2 editions. Indispensable.
• Science Fiction Studies v 26 no 1 (March 1999) "Queer Studies Issue"
• General Feminist SF Critical Bib

Movies / Films

Not Camp
• "Aliens" (1986) (butch lesbian crew member)
• All of Me (1984) (Lily Tomlin in Steve Martin's body)
• "Antonia's Line" - a totally hot lesbian in this fabulous semi-magical-realism film
• "Blood and Roses" (1961) (retelling of Carmilla)
• "Blood-Splattered Bride" (1972, Spain) (another Carmilla)
• "Born in Flames" (1982)
• "Le Frisson des Vampires" (1970)
• "Gothic" (1986)
• "Hover" (1996, USA) - directed by Michael Saul. 10 minutes, video. Gay vampirism / sexual molestation in a gothic setting ...
• "The Hunger" (1983; USA)
• "Interview with the Vampire" - Tom Cruise in a novel by Anne Rice ... need we say more?
• "The Last House Near the Lake" (1983; Italy)
• "Star Trek" Episode 79, Season 3: "Turnabout Intruder" (1969) (Kirk switches bodies with a former girlfriend)

Campy (or really, really bad)

• "Alien Prey" (1983) (British lesbians killed by alien)
• "Angel of H.E.A.T." (1982) (mad scientist; secret agent with lesbian assistant)
• "Barbarella" (1968) (Jane Fonda seduced by evil lesbian and everyone else)
• "Barry McKenzie Holds His Own" (1974) (vampire comedy)
• "Because the Dawn" (1988) (lesbian vampire short)
• "Chopper Chicks in Zombietown" (1989) (biker babes)
• "Curse of the Queerwolf" (1988) (straight boys out on the town encounter among other things a queer queenie werewolf)
• "Daughters of Darkness" (1970) 87 minutes; Dhomoerotic subtext & hints of lesbianism.
• "The Fearless Vampire Killers" (1967) Roman Polanski. more campy vampire stuff; the Count has a gay vampire son ...
• "Flash Gordon" (1976?) - totally, outrageously queer camp
• "Killer Condoms" (1996) (campy mystery horror)
• "La Cage Aux Zombies" (1995) (the title speaks for itself)
• "Magic Cottage" (1993) (spoof)
• "Monster in the Closet" (1986) (campy bad horror)
• "Night of the Living Bi-Dolls" (1997)
• "A Polish Vampire in Burbank" (1984) (some queerness)
• "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" (1975) (queen of classic camp transsexual alien movies)

Anime

• "Ranma" - a boy who becomes a girl if immersed in water; can switch back if another dose

Documentary

• "Gods and Monsters" (1998) (fictional biography of James Whale, director of "Frankenstein," etc.)
• "Out of the Closet and into the Universe: Queers and Star Trek" (1994, USA) - producer Henry Jenkins. (documentary) from MIT professor Henry Jenkins

Internet

• Gaylactic Network Spectrum Awards
• the Gay/Les/Bi Science Fiction Club home page at Lambda Sci-Fi: the DC Gaylaxians
  
• Queer Horror excellent site ...
• Sapphic Voices: Science Fiction
  http://www.sff.net/people/SapphicVoices/SVscifi.html
• Sapphic Voices: Fantasy
  http://www.sff.net/people/SapphicVoices/SVfantsy.html
• Sapphic Voices: Horror
  http://www.sff.net/people/SapphicVoices/SVhorror.html

Other Possible LGBT SF Content

I have been told or read in bibliographies of queer sf, but I either haven't read these titles personally to say for sure what the glb content is or I don't remember them.

See the Certified LBG SF List

• Acker, J. Alex. Beware the Serpent
• Acker, Kathy. Empire of the Senseless (1988) (gay)
• Adams, Derek. The Mark of the Wolf (1996) (queer werewolf)
• Adams, Jane. "Delia in Blue" in Dominion of the Ghosts, edited by S. G. Johnson
• Adams, Robert. Horseclans series. Old-style barbaraian sword & sorcery. Implied homosexuality; polygamy.
• Aldiss, Brian. The Dark Light Years (1964, 1979)
• Aldridge, Sarah. Madame Aurora
• Anderson, Chester. The Butterfly Kid (1967, 1977, 1980)
• Anthony, Mark. The Last Rune series
• Apuleius. "The Transformations of Lucius: Otherwise Known as The Golden Ass" translated by Robert Graves.
• Arden, Tom. Harlequin's Dance
  --. The King and Queen of Swords
• Arnason, Eleanor. "Dapple" (Asimov's 9/99)
• Asimov, Isaac. The Gods Themselves (1972)
• Asquith, Cynthia Mary Evelyn (Charteris) Lady. "The Lovely Voice" in This Mortal Coil (1947)

• Bailey, Robin Wayne. Triumph of the Dragon (one gay brother)
• Baker, Sharon. Quarrelling, They Met the Dragon (1984)
• Ballard, J. G. Crash (1973)
• Barker, Clive. Sacrament (1996)
  --. Galilee: A Romance (1998)
  --. Imajica (1991) (gender-switching assassin)
  --. "In the Hills, the Cities" Books of Blood volume 1
  --. "Human Remains" Books of Blood vol 3
• Barney, Natali. One Who Is Legion (1930) (hermaphrodite spirit possesses woman)
• Barr, Donald. Space Relations
  --. A Planet in Arms
• Barrie, James M. Peter Pan (1904) (gay author)
• Barrus, Tim. Genocide: The Anthology (1988)
• Barton, William. Yellow Matter (gay)
  
• Barton, William, and Paul Capobianco. Alpha Centauri [hermaphrodite protagonist; lots of sexual diversity]
• Bartter, M. A. "Be Ye Perfect" in Galaxy (Jan 1975)
• Bass, T. J. Half Past Human
• Bassingthwaite, (Bassington) Don. Breathe Deeply (1995) (gay men; plague; queer werewolves)
  --. Such Pain (1995)
  --. Pomegranates Full and Fine (1995)
• Beardsley, Aubrey. The Story of Venus and Tannhauser (1907, 1967)
  --. "Under the Hill" (part of The Story of Venus and Tannhauser, published separately) (1904)
• Beckett, Terri, and Chris Power. "Tribute Trail" [bisexual culture clashes with another culture]
• Beckford, William. Vathek (1786)
• Belden, David. Children of Arable (1987) (sexism & gender in the far future; sexes interchangeable)
• Benchley, Chaz. Tower of the King's Daughter [gay characters]
  --. Feast of the King's Shadow [gay characters]
• Benson, E. F. The Inheritor (1930)
  --. Ravens' Brood (1934)
• Beresford, J. D. A World of Women (1913) (published as Goslings in Great Britain)
• Berg, Carol. Transformation series. (subtext?)
• Berthelot, Francis. La Lune Nore d'Orion
  --. Le Rivage des Intouchables
• Bester, Alfred. The Computer Connection (1975)
  --. "Who He?" (1953)
• Bey, Hakim. Crowstone (1983)
• Bishop, Michael. Unicorn Mountain (Morrow, 1988; Bantam Books, 1989). (gay man with AIDS tries to save dying unicorns)
• Bland, Polly. "Julia" in Moonshadows: Fantasies of Love and Magick edited by S. G. Johnson (lesbian vampire)
• Blumlein, Michael. X/Y [gender change]
• Bornstein, Kate, and Caitlin Sullivan. Nearly Roadkill: An Infobahn Erotic Adventure. High Risk / Serpent's Tail: London, 1996. [cyberspace gender fluidity]
• Boyett, Steve R. "The Answer Tree" in Silver Scream (1988, ed. by David J. Schow) (horror)
• Bradley, Marion Zimmer, and Juanita Coulson. "Another rib"
• Brenchley, Chaz. Outremer series.
• Brennert, Alan. "The Third Sex" in Pulphouse 3 and Year's Best SF 7, edited by Gardner Dozois (humans are evolving into a bi-sex)
• Brewer, Gene. K-PAX (ISBN 0312118406)
• Brinton, Henry. Purple-6 (1962)
• Brite, Poppy Z.
  --. Lost Souls (1993) (erotic vampire horror)
  --. Wormwood (1994) (erotic horror story collection)
  --. Drawing Blood (1995) (gay horror)
  --. Exquisite Corpse (1996) (horror)
  --. Love in Vein (1994) (vampire stories)
  --. Love in Vein II (1998) (vampire stories)
  --. The Crow: The Lazarus Heart (1998) (gay ghost)
• Broderick, Damien. The Judas Mandala (1982) (lesbian protagonist)
  --. The White Abacus
• Brown, Frederic. Rogue in Space (1957)
  --. Nightmare in Green" (1961) (in Nightmares and Geezenstacks)
  --. "All Good Bems" in Space On My Hands
• Brown, Rebecca. The Dogs: A Modern Bestiary
• Brunner, John. --. Stand on Zanzibar (1968) (homosexuality accepted)
  --. The Stone That Never Came Down. Amazing, Nov-Dec. 1973; reprinted 1973 in expanded version. [closeted queer religious homophobe contrasted with openly gay opposition leader]
  --. Children of the Thunder (1989) (some homosexuality in the past)
  --. The Productions of Time, Fantasy and Science Fiction (Aug. 1966) (lesbian character)
  --. The Sheep Look Up (1972) (some queer characters)
• Brust, Steven. Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grills [AIDS-like disease]
  --. Yendi and Agyar [Vlad Taltos series] [bisexuality]
• Bruyer, Kris. Out of the Night (1996, Naiad) (lesbian psychological horror)
• Burka, Lauren P. Mate (a Circlet Press erotic book)
• Burroughs, William S. The Western Lands (1987)
  --. Naked Lunch
  --. The Wild Boys [gay male utopia sort of]
• Busby, F. M. Star Rebel etc.; see
• Byers, Edward. "The Disconnect" in Analog (August 1982)
• Cabell, James Branch. The High Place: A Comedy of Disenchantment (1923)
• Cadigan, Pat. "Pretty Boy Crossover" (in Wolheim, editor, 1987 Annual World's Best SF; Asimov's)
  --. Mindplayers
  --. Synners
  --. "Love Toys of the Gods" (in Dozois 11?)
• Campbell, Ramsey.
• Card, Orson Scott. --. Songmaster (1980) [gay characters; adult infatuation with young man]
  --. Treason (1988) (longer version of "A Planet Called Treason" (lesbian content; man becomes hermaphrodite to pass as a woman; has a lesbian affair as a woman; then falls in love with a boy]
• Carlisle, Anne. Liquid Sky: The Novel (1987) [lesbian protagonist]
• Carlisle, Robin. Blood and Roses (1960)
• Carr, Jan. Harem Wish (1994)
• Carter, Angela.
• Carter, Lin. Tara of the Twilight
• Cassady, Marsh. Alternate Casts (1990: Banned Books, Austin, TX) 0-934411-33-6 - (gay men's sf; time travel)
• Chabon, Michael. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (2000)
• Chalker, Jack L. When the Changewinds Blow (lesbian protagonist); see others in the Changewinds series, Riders of the Winds and War of the Maelstrom
  --. Dancing Gods series: see especially Horrors of the Dancing Gods for transgender
  --. The Identity Matrix [gender switch]
  --. Downtiming the Night Side
  --. Four Lord of the Diamonds series --, Mike Resnick, and George E. Effinger. Red Tape War
• Chambers, Jane. Burning (1978)
  --. Chasin' Jason (1987) (second coming of Christ)
• Cherryh, C. J. Cyteen (1988) (gay lovers)
  --. Rusalka Chernevog Yvgenie
  --. The Pride of Chanur [a transgender 3-sexed species]
• Clayton, Jo. Many bisexual characters in her books.
• Cocteau, Jean. Infernal Machine (1932) (play about Oedipus and the Sphinx)
• Cole, Alan, and Chris Bunch. A Warrior's Tale (1994) (lesbian protagonist)
  --. The Warrior Returns (1996)
  --. The Far Kingdoms (lesbian side character)
• Collins, Helen. Egret (Haworth: 2001; ISBN 1560232196) [lesbian coming-out story; unclear what the sf/f hook is]
• Collins, Merle. Angel (1988)
• Comfort, Alex. The Joy of Sex
• Compton, D. G. Farewell, Earth's Bliss (1966) [homosexual protagonist]
• Coney, Michael. Friends Come in Boxes (1973) [brain transplants]
• Conner, Michael. "Vamp," in Damon Knight, editor, Orbit Nineteen (1977) [gay male side characters]
• Conrad, Heather. NEWS (1987: Mother Courage Press)
• Cooke, Catherine. The Winged Assassin Trilogy [homosexual love affairs]:
  --. The Crimson Goddess (1989)
  --. Realm of the Gods (1988)
  --. The Winged Assassin (1987)
• Cooke, John Peyton. The Lake (1989)
• Coppel, Alfred. The Hastings Conspiracy (1980)
• Corelli, Marie. Romance of Two Worlds volumes 1 & 2 (1886)
• Covina, Gina. The City of Hermits (1983)
• Coyne? Coyle?, John. The Piercing (1980) (horror; homosexual priest tempted by satan)
  --. Fury (1989) [past lives New Age; former lives include lesbian nun & Greek]
• Cradock, Phyllis (pseud. for Fanny Cradock). Gateway to Remembrance (1949)
• Curzon, Daniel. "The Hideous Beast" in The Revolt of the Perverts, San Francisco: Leland Mellott Books, 1978. (young gay man)
  --. "Mr. Right" also in The Revolt of the Perverts, a retelling of the Zeus / Ganymede story.
• Danaan, Tara. "The Grave's a Fine and Private Place," Sinister Wisdom (Berkeley, Calif), no. 34 (1988) [lesbian vampire]
• Daniels, Cora Lynn. Sardia (1891) (lesbian vampire)
• Dark, Jon. Satan's Victor (1972) (gay male pornographic horror)
• Davis, Cheryl Elaine. "Stone Hands," Sinister Wisdom (Berkeley, CA) no. 34 (1988). [lesbianism creates a rebel in a future dystopian world]
• Davis, Grania. "New-way-groover's Stew" Fantastic (Aug. 1976) [60s butch lesbian & swishy gay male & hippies]
• Davis, Lesley. Keeper of the Peace (2000) (or Keeper of the Piece)
• Dean, Pamela
• De Camp, L. Sprauge. The Hostage of Zir (1977) [homosexual side characters who go straight]
• Dedman, Stephen.
• Devereaux, Robert. Walking Wounded
• Diamon, N. (Nikos) A. Ed Dean Is Queer (1978). [utopian sf; San Francisco secedes, and a lesbian woman of color becomes president]
  --. The Fourth Wall (1980) [one of the main characters is gay]
• Dick, Philip K. Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (1974) [lesbian character & lesbian organization; a little bit of gay male imagery]
• Dickinson, Peter. King and Joker (1976) [lesbian side character]
• Dickson, Jan. "Moonshine Quartet" Women (Baltimore, Maryland), v. 5, no. 1 (1976) (lesbian protagonist)
• Disch, Thomas. --. On Wings of Song (1979) [bisexual protagonist]
  --. Camp Concentration (1968) [gay secondary characters]
  --. The Businessman (1984) [gay secdonary characters]
  --. Clara Reeve (1975), published under pseudonym Leonie Hargrave [lesbian characters]
  --. "Apollo" (1973) [about Apollo and Hyacinthus affair, in Greenwich Village]
  --. "The Colors" (1969) [gay secondary character] --. "Displaying the Flag" (1973) [an anti-sm story which equates sm with fascism]
  --. "Narcissus" (1969) [mathematician falls in love with his computer twin]
  --. "Thesis on Social Forms and Social Controls in the USA" (1964)
  
• Drew, Holly. "The Seduction of Earth and Rain" in Coming to Power, ed. by SAMOIS Collective
• Duncan, Frances. Pattern Makers (1989) (surreal women's fiction)
• Dykewoman, Elana. They Will Know Me By My Teeth (Northampton Mass: Megaera Press, 1976). [collection of lesbian stories includes 3 Amazon fantasies: "How We Got the Moon", "Solstice Story", and "The Journal She Kept."]
• Effinger, George Alec. When Gravity Fails (1986) (mystery thriller with secondary queer / transsexual characters)
• Egan, Greg. Teranesia (2000, HarperCollins/EOS)
  --. "Oracle" in Asimov's July 2000
• Eighner, Lars, and Clay Caldwell. QSFx2: Queer Science Fiction (1995, BadBoy Books; ISBN 1-5633-278-7) Introduction by "Aaron Travis" (pseudonym for Steven Saylor). 5 speculative fiction stories each by CC and LE.
• Eighner, Lars. Pawn to Queen Four (1995, St. Martin's, 0-312-13581-5; 1997 Stonewall Inn Editions 0-312-15188-8) (queer fantasy)
• Eklund, Gordon. "The Anaconda's Smile" Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1979 [lesbian side character dies horribly]
• Ellison, Harlan. "Catman" in Final Stage, edited by Ferman & Malzberg (1974) (everybody is bisexual)
  --. "Enter the Fanatic, Stage Center" in Gentleman Junkie (1961) (lesbian librarian)
  --. "Erotophobia" in Penthouse (1981) --. "A Path Through the Darkness" (in Love Ain't Nothing but Sex Misspelled (lesbian character is pathetic)
  --. "World of Women" in Fantastic (Feb. 1957) [matriarchal world, anti-lesbian]
  --. "Come to Me Not in Winter's White" (1969) [man's wife falls in love with another woman]
• Emery, Clayton. Card Master (lesbian protagonist)
• Emshwiller, Peter. Short Blade
• Esser, Kevin. Dance of the Warriors (1988, gay; xtian fascists) [revision & expansion of the world in "The Dying of the Light" (1986)]/LI>
• Estacada, Alix, and Marides Bona Dea. "Excerpt from Nozama." Women (Baltimore, Maryland), v. 5, no. 1 (1976). [lesbian planet]
• Ewers, Hanns Heinz. Alraune (1929, 1976) [Weimar Germany dark fantasy about an evil woman who corrupts many including lesbians]
• Fallingstar, Cerridwen. The Heart of the Fire (1990, Cauldron Publications) ("an authentic past-life chronicle" of a lesbian peasant in 16th century Scotland, her Gipsy girlfriend, and the witch-hunts)
• Fancher, Jane S. Harmonies of the Net
  --. Groundties
  --. Uplink
• Farmer, Philip Jose. Flesh (1968)
  --. The Dark Design (1978) (Riverworld 3) (lesbian protagonist)
  
• Farrell, Matthew. Thunder Rift (2000)
• Fast, Julius. The League of Grey-Eyed Women (1970) [situational lesbian telepaths]
• Faye, Jules Remedios. Wisewomen and Boggy-boos: A Dictionary of Lesbian Fairy Lore (1992: Edward William Publishing, Austin Texas)
• Feinberg, Karen. "The Sender of Dreams," Amazon Quarterly (Berkeley CA) July 1974. Reprinted in The Lesbian Reader, edited by Gina Covina and Laurel Galana, Oakland, CA, Amazon Press, 1975. [psychic lesbians]
• Feintuch, David. The Still
  --. The King.
• Finlay, Charles Coleman. story in Wild Things (collection) ("A future earth is populated by only two kinds of people, homosexuals and hydrosexuals.")
• Fisk, Nicholas. "Find the Lady," in New Dimensions Five, edited by Robert Silverberg, 1975. [two gay men sell antiques to alien invaders]
• Fitzgibbon, Constantine. When the Kissing Had to Stop (1960) [totalitarian socialists take over england; minor gay character]
• Fletcher, George U. [pseud. for Fletcher Pratt]. The Well of the Unicorn (1948) [multiple gay characters & cross-dressing women]
• Flewelling, Lynn. Nightrunner trilogy [gay main characters]: Traitor's Moon; Stalking Darkness; Luck in the Shadows
• Flynn, Tom. Galactic Rapture (Prometheus Books, NY, 2000)
• Fortune, Dion. Moon Magic (by Violet B. Firth using pseudonym) (1948)
• Foster, M. A. The Morphodites (body shifting)
• Freireich, Valerie. Becoming Human
• Friesner, Esther. "Chanoyu" (Asimov's 3/99)
• Frye, Ellen. Amazon Story Bones (1994)

• Gadd, Neville. "2032: A Gay Odyssey," Gay News (London), no. 3 (1972) [queers are allowed to be gay if they swear loyalty the government]
• Gaiman, Neil.
• Gannett, Lewis. The Living One (1993)
  
• Gardner, James Alan. Commitment Hour (kids decide what sex they want to be as they approach adolescence)
• Gaskell, Jane. A Sweet, Sweet Summer (1969)
  --. The Serpent (1968)
• Gentle, Mary. "Anukazi's Daughter" in Isaac Asimov's Tomorrow's Voices (1984)
• Gerrold, David. "How We Saved the Human Race," With a Finger in My I (1972)
  --. "In the Deadlands" With a finger in My I (1972)
• Gladney, Heather. Teot's War
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Faust (1832) (famous drama; gay Mephistopheles)
• Gogol, Nikolai. Uncanny Stories
• Golding, William. Sometime, Never
• Goldstein, Lisa. Strange Devices of the Sun and Moon (gay protagonist (Christopher Marlowe))
• Goodkind, Terry. Wizard's First Rule (lesbian characters)
• Goodman, Paul. The Empire City (1959)
• Gotlieb, Phyllis. Flesh and Gold (1998)
  --. Violent Stars (2000)
• Goulart, Ron. After Things Fell Apart (1970) (satire involving a murderous gang of lesbians)
• Gould, Lois. A Sea Change (1976)
• Graves, Robert. Watch the North Wind Rise (1949)
• Gray, John. Park: A Fantastic Story (1932) [author was a friend of Oscar Wilde's; possibly the model for Dorian Gray]
• Gray, Stephen. Born of Man (1989) (man gives birth)
• Greenland, Colin. Tabitha Jute series - The Plenty Principle (1988); Take Back Plenty (1990); Seasons of Plenty (1995); Mother of Plenty (1998)
• Greenwood, Kerry. (Australian)
  --. Cassandra
  --. Electra
  --. Medea
  --. The Broken Wheel
  --. Whaleroad
• Grinnell, David. "The Feminine Fraction" in Magazine of Horror, Nov. 1964; reprinted in Two Dozen Dragon Eggs, edited by Donald Wollheim (1969)
• Gunter, Archibald Clavering. A Florida Enchantment (1891) (sex switch)

• Haggard, H. Rider. Allan's Wife (1887)
• Haimson, Maud. "Hands" in Amazon Quarterly (Berkeley, Calif.), no. 2 (July 1974); reprinted in The Lesbian Reader, edited by Gina Covina and Laurel Galana, Oakland, California, Amazon Press 1975. (lesbian alien)
• Halpern, Jay. The Jade Unicorn (1979) (lesbian & gay characters)
• Hambly, Barbara. The Silent Tower
  --. The Silicon Mage
• Hamilton, Laurell K.
  --. The Laughing Corpse (1994)
  --. Guilty Pleasures (1995)
  --. Circus of the Damned (1995) --. Bloody Bones (1996)
  --. The Lunatic Cafe (1996)
  --. The Killing Dance (1997)
  --. Blue Moon (1998)
  --. Burnt Offerings (1998)
  
• Hand, Elizabeth. Glimmering (gay male protagonist)
• Haris, Marsh. "The Escape" in Overture in G Minor, edited by James Ramp (1964) (situational homosexuality)
• Harper, Tara K. Lightwing
• Harrison, Harry. Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers (1973)
• Hartwell, Shirley. "Itu's Sixth Winter Festival," in Memories and Visions, edited by Sturgis, 1989.
• Haushofer, Marlen. The Wall (1990)
• Hays, Wendy. "The Giant Person and Her Hell-Hound," Sisters (San Francisco), Feb. March 1974.
• Heinlein, Robert. "All You Zombies" in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (March 1959)
• Herbert, James. The Rats (1974)
• Hesse, Hermann. Steppenwolf (1929) (lesbian)
• Heym, Stefan. "The Wachsmuth Syndrome" in Playboy (Sept. 1972)
• Hoffman, Nina Kiriki. "Works of Art" in Year's Best Horror, 17, edited by Karl Edward Wagner (1989) (lesbian)
• Holland, Cecelia. Floating Worlds (1976) (protagonist has lesbian relationship)
• Holland, Tom. Lord of the Dead (1995) (gay Lord Byr