SF and Fantasy Alternate Sexuality Listing ------------------------------------------ **NEW NOTE: My paper is due Monday. If anybody knows in what Arthur C. Clarke book he mentions orbitl satellites, please e-mail me title, and, if possible, bibliographic information. MANY MANY THANKS!** (All comments and critique welcome. I'd appreciate any comments on the books listed here, any additional books by these authors, regardless of sexual content, and anything you may have forgotten or assumed somebody else would recommend :-). In addition, I'm also looking for more non-positive renditions of alternate sexuality in fantasy...feel free to send me SF too and I'll add it to the list even though I may not use it for my paper. I don't have time to read all of these, so I'm relying on your comments. Not everything listed here may be sf/f. Please, if you recommend something, or correct something, let me know if it's fantasy or science fiction. Many, many thanks...I'm sorry I can't thank you all personally. I'll keep posting updated lists every couple of weeks.) BIBLIOGRAPHY: Garber, Eric & Lyn Paleo Uranian Worlds: A Reader's Guide to Alternate Sexuality in Science Fiction and Fantasy CRITICISM: Across the Wounded Galaxy: Interviews with writers Delany, Samuel R. The Jewel-Hinged Jaw (contains a critique of LeGuin's The Dispossessed) Frye, Northrop Jamison, Frederick MAGAZINES: Amazing Stories Quick, W.T. - "Whatever Gets You Through The Night" - March 1990 Analog Byers Edward - "The Disconnect" - August 1982 Turtledov, Harry - _The Great Unknown_ = April, May, June 1991 Galaxy Varley's "Eight Worlds" stories - mid-to-late 70s Asimov's Varley, John - "The Barbie Murders" - Feb 1978 Shepard, Lucius - "A Traveler's Tale" - July 1984 Rainbow, Tom - "The Science Fiction of Sex change" - July 1985 Jablokov, Alexander - "The Death Artist" - Aug 1990 Casper, Susan - "Nine Tenths of the Law" - Jul 1991 Varley, John - "Her Girl Friday" - Aug 1992 F & SF Magazine Heinlein, Robert - "All You Zombies" - March 1959 Varley, John - "Picnic on Nearside" - Aug 1974 Omni Shepard, Lucius - "Life of Buddha" - May 1988 Calder, Richard - "Mosquito" - Jul 1990 Penthouse Ellison, Harlan - "Erotophobia" - 1981 Playboy Heym, Stefan - "The Wachsmuth Syndrome" - Sept 1972 ANTHOLOGIES: Baen, Jim - New Destinies IX Flynn, Michael - "Werehouse" - Fall 1990 Carr, Terry - Universe 9 & 10 Varley, John - "Options" Busby, F.M. - "First Person Plural" Datlow, Ellen - Alien Sex Baker, Scott - "The Jamesburg Incubus" Decarnin, Camilla - Worlds Apart: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Science Fiction and Fantasy Del Rey, Judy-Lynn - Stellar 7 Hogan, James - "Identity Crises" Dozois, Gardner - Year's Best - 7th and 8th Brennert, Alan - "The Third Sex" Jablokov, Alex - "The Death Artist" Elder, Joseph - Eros in Orbit Scortia, Thomas - "Flowering Narcissus" Elliot, Jeffrey M. - Kindred Spirits: An Anthology of Gay and Lesbian Science Fiction Foster, Alan Dean - Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves Lynn, Elizabeth - "The Man who was Pregnant" Knight, Damon - Orbit 9 Wilhem, Kate - "The Infinity Box" Rusch, Kristine Kathryn - Pulphouse3 Brennert, Alan - "the Third Sex" Salmonson, Jessica Amanda - Amazons! & Amazins II Tomoe Gozen series Sargent, Pamela - Bio-Futures LeGuin, Ursula K. - "Nine Lives" Scortia, Thomas - Strange Bedfellows Carlson, W. - "Dinner at Helen's" Torgeson, Ray - Chrysalis 1 Lynn, Elizabeth - "The Man Who was Pregnant" ed (?) - Interzone 2 Gibson, William - "The Brains of Rats" (bisexual transvestite) ed (?) - Burning Chrome Gibson, William & Shirley - "The Belonging Kind" Fantasy & SF: Anderson, Poul Eutopia (short story) Andros, Phil Below the Belt % Other Stories The Boys in Blue Different Strokes: Stories Roman Conquests Stud: A Novel Anthony, Piers (SF) Trilogy: (threesome) Omnivore Orn Ox Pornucopia (bisexual (sorta) male protagonist, good for a laugh) Aspirin, Robert (F) Thieves' World series, ed. Myth series Myth-ing Persons Myth-nomers and Im-pervections M.Y.T.H. Inc. Link Myth Directions Myth Conceptions Little Myth Marker Hit or Myth Another Fine Myth Atwood, Margaret (SF) The Handmaid's Tale (also made into a reasonably good movie, although they change the ending) Baker, Sharon: (boy prostitute) (SF/F) Quarreling, They Met the Dragon Journey to Membliar The Burning Tears of Sassurum Barrus, Tim Genocide (short story collection) Baudino, Gael (F) Dragon Trilogy (men changed into women - some become lesbians, some don't, some suicide) Gossamer Axe (woman searching for her lesbian lover) Strands of Starlight de Berg, Jean The Image Bishop, Michael Unicorn Mountain Bradbury, Ray (SF) I Sing the Body Electric (collection) "The Warm Wind and the Cold" ('swishy gay boys') Bradley, Marion Zimmer (SF/F) (bisexuality accepted, women's society with many lesbians, oppressions of women) Darkover series Thendara House The Forbidden Tower The World Wreckers The Heritage of Hastur etc.... Lythande (cross-dressing lesbian protagonist) Mists of Avalon (Arthurian fantasy from the point of view of three women - quite good) Warrior Woman (very bad!) (F) (numerous lesbian characters) Ruins of Isis (SF) (numerous lesbian characters) Bujold, Lois McMaster (SF) Shards of Honor Barrayar Miles Vorkosigan series (hermaphrodite character) The Warrior's Apprentice The Vor Game Ethan of Athos (gay protagonist from a planet of men) Brothers in Arms Borders of Infinity (three novellas) Burroughs, William S. The Naked Lunch Busby, F.M. Zelda M'Tana Breeds of Man Butler, Octavia (aliens transform our race - surprisingly good) (SF) Dawn Adulthood Rites Imago (out of print - if you know where to get a copy, please let me know!) Cadigan, Pat "Pretty Boy Crossover" (somewhere in Asimov's) Califa, Pat (SF) (lesbians +) Doc & Fluff Macho Sluts (collection) Card, Orson Scott (SF) (author is rabidly homophobic) Songmaster (homosexual pedastery) Heart's Hope (F) (rape) Ender's Game (excellent, despite author's prejudices) Speaker for the Dead Xenocide The Tales of Alvin Maker Carter, Lin (F) Tara of the Twilight Chalker, Jack L. (gender-changing) Changewinds series: (SF/F) When the Changewinds Blow Riders of the Winds War of the Maelstrom Soul Rider series: (SF/F) Spirits of Flux and Anchor Empires of Flux and Anchor Masters of Flux and Anchor The Birth of Flux and Anchor Children of Flux and Anchor River of the Dancing Gods series (F) Rings of the Master series (SF) Cherryh, C.J. (SF) (bisexual characters - political handicap) Cyteen trilogy (only a trilogy in US paperback edition) Clarke, Arthur C. (SF) (recommended) Imperial Earth (protagonist is bisexual man - bisexuality norm) Songs of Distant Earth 2010/2061 Rendezvous with Rama (gay couple) Constantine, Storm (SF) The Monstrous Regiment (struggle for sexual equality on a planet slipping from a proto-feminist society to a matriarchal dictatorship) Wraeththu series: (humans mutating into hermaphrodites) The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit The Bewitchment of Love and Hate (out of print - if you know where to get a copy, please tell me!) The Fulfillments of Fate and Desire Hermetech (protagonist is bi female; bi males) Cooke, John Peyton Cooper, Edmund (SF) Seahorse in the Sky (minor gay character) Delany, Samuel (highly recommended) Babel-17 (SF) Dhalgren (SF) (explicit bisexual scenes, alternative lifestyles) The Jewels of Astor Neveryona series: (F) Tales of Neveryon Neveryona Flight from Neveryon Return to Neveryon The Bridge of Lost Desire Nova Stars in my Pocket Like Grains of Sand (SF) Triton (SF) The Motion of Light on Water (autobiography) Heavenly Breakfast (autobiography) Disch, Tom 334 (sex in pre-pubescents; strange sex roles) On Wings of Song + some short stories Drake, David & S.M. Stirling The General series: (3 major characters in a family) The Forge The Hammer The Anvil (forthcoming) The Steel (forthcoming) Dreher, Sarah Duane, Diane (F) (bisexuality is the norm; positive) Door into Fire Door into Shadow Door into Sunset Door into Starlight (forthcoming) Elliot, Jeffrey Fancher, Jane S. (trilogy with bisexual male protagonists) Groundties Uplink Harmonies ofthe Net Farmer, Philip Jose (bisexual vampires) Image of the Beast Blown Finch, Sheila Infinity's Web Forrest, Katherine Dreams & Swords Daughters of the Coral Dawn Franklin, Patrick The Uncertainty of Strangers Sea Gift (short story) Gearhart, Sally Miller The Wanderground Gerrold, David The Man Who Folded Himself Gibson, William (SF) Sprawl trilogy Neuromancer Count Zero Mona Lisa Overdrive Gladney, Heather Teot's War Gomez, Jewelle The Gilda Chronicles Haldeman, Joe (SF) The Forever War (homosexuality the norm) Worlds Worlds Apart Hambly, Barbara (cruel, insane gay character) The Silent Tower The Silicon Mage Harrison, Harry (SF) Star Smasher of the Galaxy Rangers Heinlein, Robert A. (SF) I Will Fear No Evil (male becomes biseuxal female) Stranger in a Strange Land (bisexual male protagonist) Number of the Beast The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (clan marriages; line marriages) Time Enough for Love (bisexual incest, in an odd kind of way) Friday (bisexual female protagonist) The Cat Who Walks Through Walls To Sail Beyond the Sunset Herbert Frank (SF) God Emperor of Dune (lesbians in the army ?) Huff, Tanya Fire's Stone Blood Price Blood Trail Keegan, Mel Death's Head (gay men) Kerr, Katherine Daggerspell Darkspell Kushner, Ellen (F) Swordspoint (bisexual man and gay man) Thomas the Rhymer (no bi or gay content, but a great book) Lackey, Mercedes (F) Arrows trilogy: (gay characters) Arrows of the Queen Arrow's Flight Arrow's Fall Last Herald-Mage trilogy: (gay protagonists) Magic's Pawn Magic's Promise Magic's Price Oathbound Oathbreakers Winds of Fate Winds of Change Knight of Ghosts & Shadows (with Ellen Guon) (triple) Summoned to Tourney (with Ellen Guon) (sequel to _Knight_) Diana Tregarde series: (pagan witch) Children of the Night Burning Water Jinx High Serrated Edge series: Born to Run (with Larry Dixon) (boy prostitute) Wheels of Fire (with Mark Shepherd) Lee, Tanith Flat Earth series (everyone is bi): Night's Master Death's Master Delusion's Master Delerium's Mistress Night's Sorceries Birthgrave trilogy (countries where homosexuality Stormlord is common) LeGuin, Ursula K. (SF) The Left Hand of Darkness (neuter alien, except during mating, when can be either sex; seminal work) The Dispossessed (some bisexuality) Littell, Jonathan (cyberpunk) Bad Voltage (gay male protagonist) Logston, Anne (F) Shadow Shadow Hunt Shadow Dance Lynn, Elizabeth (F) Chronicles of Tornor: Watchtower Dancers of Arun Northern Girl The Sardonyx Net (SF) (sadism and incest; moderately sympathetic) The Woman Who Loved the Moon (short story collection) (also in Amazons!, ed. J.A. Salmonson) A Different Light (gay male protagonists) "The Man Who Was Pregnant" (short story) Marks, Laurie J. Delan the Mislaid (a world with race of hermaphrodites) The Moonbane Mage Ara's Field The Watcher's Mask (different world; no LBG content) McCaffrey, Anne (SF/F) Dragonrider series: (implications that some green riders are gay) Dragonflight Dragonquest The White Dragon The Harper Hall of Pern: Dragonsong Dragonsinger Dragondrums Moreta (specific incident with gay male dragonriders) Nerilka's Story Dragonsdawn Renegades of Pern All the Weyrs of Pern McGeehee, Peter McGregory, Loren (F) The Net (lesbian, gay and bi characters) McIntyre, Vonda N. (SF) Starfarers (partnership of two men and a woman) Dreamsnake Transition Metaphase Meier, Shirley Shadow's Daughter (2nd book in series with S.M. Stirling) The Sharpest Edge (with Stirling) The Cage (with Stirling) Shadow's Son (with Stirling and Karen Wehrstein) Meluch, R.M. (SF) Sovereign (bisexual male protagonist) Minns, Eric Island Boy Moon, Elizabeth Deed of Paksenarrion (pair of lesbians; homosexuality fairly normal though uncommon, asexual heroine) Moorcock, Michael (classic) Gloriana (F) (detailed exploration of sexuality) many, many SF novels which mention bisexuality in passing Adventures of Catherine Cornelius and Una Persson in the 20th Century (SF) Morrow, James Nader, George Chrome Niven, Larry (SF) (recommended) Ringworld (ritualized sex between species) The Integral Trees (lesbian warriors) Piercy, Marge (SF) Woman at the Edge of Time (bisexual utopia) He, She, & It (sexual relationship with android) Pohl, Fred (SF) Gateway (bisexuality is the norm and concern of protagonist) Pollack Rachel "Black Rose, White Rose" (short story) Pynchon, Thomas The Crying of Lot 49 V., A Novel Gravity's Rainbow Vineland Slow Learner (short story collection) Reage, Pauline (not SF or F, but fascinating anyway) The Story of O (I & II) (s&m, lesbians, slavery) Rice, Anne (F) Vampire series: Interview with a Vampire The Vampire Lestat Queen of the Damned Tale of the Body Thief Cry to Heaven Exit to Eden (as Anne Rampling) (s&m) Sleeping Beauty series (as A.N. Roquelaire) (s&m) The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty Beauty's Punishment Beauty's Release Ridley, Philip Crocodilia [publ: Brilliance] Rivkin, J.F. (F) Silverglass series: (two bisexual female protagonists) Silverglass Web of Wind Witch of Rhosthyl Mistress of Ambiguities Robinson, Spider (SF) Stardance Timepressure (scared butch men discovering bisexuality) Callahan's Lady Lady Slings the Booze Russ, Joanna The Female Man Zanzibar Cat (short story collection) "When It Changed" (also in Ellison's _Dangerous Visions_, and Nestle's _Women on Women_) "Mr Wilde's Second Chance" Extraordinary People (short story collection) "Bodies" "Mystery of the Young Gentleman" Hidden Side of the Moon (short story collection) "Cliches From Outer Space" Ryman, Geoff The Child Garden Schulman, J. Neil (SF) The Rainbow Cadenza (gay men, scarcity of women) Scott, Melissa Mighty Good Road (SF) (lesbian protagonist) The Armor of Light (with Lisa Barnett) (F) (several gay males) Shirley, John (SF) (gay, lesbian) A Song Called Youth (aka Eclipse, Eclipse Penumbra, etc) Silverberg, Robert (SF/F) At Winter's End (bisexual woman; twining?; voluntary conception) Book of Skulls Slonczewski, Joan (SF) (good) Door into Ocean Smith, Cordwainer The Crime and Glory of Commander Suzdahl (women die out; men survive by cloning) Spedding, (Alison) (F) (bisexual female protagonist in sexist and homophobic society) The Road and the Hills A Cloud over Water The Streets of the City Stirling, S.M. Marching Through Georgia Under the Yoke (lesbians) The Stone Dogs (first real treatment of homosexuality in trilogy) Snowbrother (rest of series see Meier and Wehrstein) Sturgeon, Theodore (SF) Venus Plus X (gender identity) "The World Well Lost", _E.Pluribus Unicorn_ Tarr, Judith (F) Avaryan Rising: The Hall of the Mountain King (bi mercenaries) The Lady of Han-Gilen A Fall of Princes (two rival princes fall in love, one eventually undergoes a sorcerous sex-change) Tepper, Sheri S. Side Show (SF) (hermaphrodites, incest) True Game series: (F) The Song of Mavin Manyshaped The Flight of Mavin Manyshaped The Search of Mavin Manyshaped King's Blood Four Necromancer Nine Wizard's Eleven Jinian Footseer Jinian Dervish Daughter Jinian Star-Eye Northshore Southshore The Gate to Women's Country Grass Raising the Stones Tiptree, James (SF) Starsongs of an Old Primate (short story collection) Your Haploid Heart A Momentary Taste of Being Her Smoke Rose up Forever (short story col.) Your Faces, O My Sisters! Houston, Houston, Do Read? With Delicate Mad Hands Vance, Jack (F) The Green Pearl (second in Lyonesse trilogy - bisexual and homosexual characters) Varley, John Gaea Trilogy: (SF/F) (bisexual woman hero) Titan Wizard Demon Opiuchi Hotline (SF) (sex change) The Persistence of Vision (SF) The Barbie Murders (SF) Hall of the Martian Kings (SF) Blue Champagne (SF) Steel Beach Vinge, Vernor (SF) Marooned in Realtime (lesbians) Across Realtime Peace War series (married lesbians) Wehrstein, Karen Lion's Heart Lion's Soul Shadow's Son (with Shirley Meier and S.M. Stirling) Wilhelm, Kate Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang Wittig, Monique Les Guirilleres Woolf, Virginia Orlando (sex-changing across time) Wright, Helen (SF) A Matter of Oaths (bisexuality is the norm) Yolen, Jane (F) Sister Light, Sister Dark (gay themes) White Jenna ***** Respond to moh2@midway.uchicago.edu -- They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars - on stars where no human race is I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places. - Robert Frost