Alternate Sexuality in Fantasy and SFArchive-name: alt.sex/fantasy-sci-fi SF and Fantasy Alternate Sexuality Listing ------------------------------------------ (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. 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: Northrop Frye Fredric Jamison 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" 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" Fantasy & SF: Anderson, Poul Eutopia Andros, Phil Below the Belt % Other Stories The Boys in Blue Different Strokes: Stories Roman Conquests Stud: A Novel Atwood, Margaret (SF) The Handmaid's Tale Baker, Sharon: (boy prostitute) (SF/F) Quarreling, They Met the Dragon Journey to Membliar The Burning Tears of Sassarum 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 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 Lythande (cross-dressing lesbian protagonist) Warrior Woman (very bad!) (F) (numerous lesbian characters) Ruins of Isis (SF) (numerous lesbian characters) Bujold, Lois McMaster (SF) Shards of Honor (bisexual male protagonist) 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) Busby, F.M. Zelda M'Tana Butler, Octavia (aliens transform our race - surprisingly good) (SF) Dawn Adulthood Rites Imago Card, Orson Scott (SF) Songmaster 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) Imperial Earth (protagonist is bisexual man) Songs of Distant Earth 2010/2061 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, The Fulfillments of Fate and Desire Hermetech (protagonist is bi female; bi males) Cooke, John Peyton 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) 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 Farmer, Philip Jose (bisexual vampires) Image of the Beast Blown 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 Gladney, Heather Teot's War Gomez, Jewelle Haldeman, Joe The Forever War Hansen, Joseph Dave Brandstetter series (mysteries?) Harrison, Harry (SF) Star Smasher of the Galaxy Rangers Heinlein, Robert A. (SF) I Will Fear No Evil Stranger in a Strange Land (bisexual male protagonist) Number of the Beast The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (?) Time Enough for Love (bisexual incest, in an odd kind of way) Friday (bisexual female protagonist) Huff, Tanya Fire's Stone Blood Price Blood Trail 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 Shepard) 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) Logston, Anne (F) Shadow Shadow Hunt Shadow Dance Lynn, Elizabeth (F) Chronicles of Tornor: Watchtower Dancers of Arun Northern Girl The Woman Who Loved the Moon (short story collection) A Different Light (gay male protagonists) "The Man Who Was Pregnant" (short story) McCaffrey, Anne (SF/F) Dragonrider series: (implications that 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 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) McGehee, Peter Minns, Eric Island Boy Moon, Elizabeth Deed of Paksenarrion (pair of lesbians; homosexuality fairly normal though uncommon, asexual heroine) Moorcock, Michael Gloriana (F) (detailed exploration of sexuality) many, many SF novels which mention bisexuality in passing Morrow, James Nader, George Chrome Piercy, Marge (SF) Woman at the Edge of Time (bisexual utopia) Pohl, Fred (SF) Gateway (bisexuality is the norm and concern of protagonist) Pollack Rachel "Black Rose, White Rose" (short story) Reage, Pauline 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 Cry to Heaven Exit to Eden (as Anne Rampling) (s&m) Sleeping Beauty series (as A.N. Roquelaire) (s&m) 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 "When It Changed" (lesbian) (Ellison's _Dangerous Visions_ series) The Female Man Ryman, Geoff The Child Garden Scott, Melissa Mighty Good Road (SF) (lesbian protagonist) The Armor of Light (with Lisa Barnett) (F) (several gay males) Silverberg, Robert (SF/F) At Winter's End (bisexual woman; twining?; voluntary conception) Slonczewski, Joan Door into Ocean Smith, Cordwainer [title unknown!] (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 --- (second book of trilogy) 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) 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) Tiptree, James (SF) Starsongs of an Old Primate (short story collection) Your Haploid Heart A Momentary Taste of Being 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 Wehrstein, Karen Lion's Heart Lion's Soul Shadow's Son (with Shirley Meier and S.M. Stirling) Wittig, Monique Lew Guerilles 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 White Jenna ***** Respond to moh2@midway.uchicago.edu -- The autumn leaves are falling like rain. Although my neighbors are all barbarians, And you, you are a thousand miles away, There are always two cups at my table. - A T'ang Dynasty poem |