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An Alien Light (1988)
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Kress, Nancy
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Category: Alien society
Summary: Humans ship-wrecked on an alien planet are confined by the local inhabitants to be studied. Over the many years of imprisonment, the humans revert to a less civilized lifestyle. Includes a society of female soldiers who eschew the company of men.
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Added on 5/1/1996
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Future is Queer, The (2006)
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Labonté, Richard and Lawrence Schimel, ed.
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Category: Science fiction
Summary: Collection of science fiction stories with queer themes and characters.
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Added on 11/17/2007
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Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century (2006)
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Larbalestier, Justine
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Category: Short stories
Summary: A mix of stories and lit crit that examines the history and role of women in science fiction, starting in the pulps of the 1920s. The stories chosen for the collection are all excellent and the articles about them are okay. I was pretty surprised at what some women were writing in the thirties and fifties.
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Added on 3/1/2007
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Telling, The (2000)
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LeGuin, Ursula
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Category: Science Fiction
Summary: Sutty is a lesbian, living on an Earth governed by religious zealots. She decides to join the interstellar Ekumen as an Observer. On the planet Aka, her first posting, she discovers that the government is attempting to wipe out “the Telling,” the culture of the majority of citizens.
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Added on 11/18/2002
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Speaking Stones (1999)
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Leigh, Stephen
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Category: Colonization
Summary: Takes place on the same planet as Dark Water's Embrace. The colonists had been dealing with physical mutations and birth defects among themselves, then an uneasy coexistence with the Miccail, an indigenous tri-gendered intelligent species. Then they realize that some of the birth defects are actually part of the evolution of a third human sex: the Sa, or midmale.
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Added on 7/18/1999
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Dark Water's Embrace (1998)
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Leigh, Stephen
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Category: Colonization
Summary: The colony on Mictlan is experiencing problems with reproduction. Babies are being born deformed. Every woman is pressured to become pregnant for the good of the colony, including the hapless Anais Koda-Levin, who has a sexual deformity.
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Added on 7/15/1999
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Bones of God, The (1986)
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Leigh, Stephen
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Category: Alien society
Summary: Alien females had sex/relationships with each other and males were “animals.”
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Added on 3/28/2001
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Girl in Landscape (1998)
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Lethem, Jonathan
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Category: Colonization
Summary: The surface of the earth has become inhospitable to humans, and the alternatives are to live underground or to emigrate to a newly discovered planet in another solar system. Fourteen-year-old Pella Marsh's family decides on the new planet. Though the plot doesn't directly concern them, there is a lesbian couple in Pella's colony.
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Added on 3/2/1999
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Songs of Chaos (1993)
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Lewitt, S.N. (Shariann)
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Category: Space-based
Summary: Dante McCall is banished from Earth, and winds up on a ship that is part of a gypsy-like culture of traders that lives on the fringes of interstellar society and is now facing a threat from the powers-that-be. A couple of major characters turn out to be lesbians, though this is revealed late in the book.
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Added on 10/1/1999
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Bulldozer Rising (1988?)
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Livia, Anna Lesbian Author!
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Category: Dystopian future
Summary: Portrays a future society where youth is paramount and when you turn 40 you are expected to kill yourself to make room for the young, But there is a cadre of old women, many of them lesbians, who are plotting to change society.
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Added on 5/15/2003
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Dragon's Winter (1998)
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Lynn, Elizabeth A. Lesbian Author!
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Category: Fantasy
Summary: Magical fantasy about twin sons of the dragon king. One has the dragon's blood, but the other does not--though he'll do anything to have that power.
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Added on 11/29/1998
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Sardonyx Net, The (1985)
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Lynn, Elizabeth A. Lesbian Author!
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Category: Far future
Summary: Slow start, but midway through got very, very good. In the far future, slavery is common. A starship captain becomes involved in a rebellion against it.
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Added on 6/30/1999
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Woman Who Loved the Moon, The (1984)
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Lynn, Elizabeth A. Lesbian Author!
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Summary: Short stories. I haven't read it in many years, so it is unrated.
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Added on 5/1/1996
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Northern Girl, The (1980)
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Lynn, Elizabeth A. Lesbian Author!
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Category: Fantasy
Summary: Final book in the Tornor trilogy, this one with many lesbian characters. For 17-year-old Sorren, bondservant to city councilor Arré Med, the wanderlust of youth is fed by the need to learn whether the strange tower she sees in her dreams is a real place. Sorren determines to go north and find Tornor when her bond expires in a year.
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Added on 5/1/1996
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Dancers of Arun, The (1979)
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Lynn, Elizabeth A. Lesbian Author!
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Summary: Second book in the Chronicles of Tornor trilogy. Has a lot of bisexuality. I haven't read it in 20 years, so it is unrated.
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Added on 5/1/1996
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Watchtower, The (1979)
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Lynn, Elizabeth A. Lesbian Author!
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Summary: Tornor Keep is the tower outpost guarding the land. But when Tornor is overrun by raiders, a young prince is the tower's last hope in an enchanting story of a time far removed from ours and of a land alive with warriors, lovers, war, and honor. First book of a trilogy. I haven't read it in 20 years, so it is unrated.
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Added on 5/1/1996
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Different Light, A (1978)
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Lynn, Elizabeth A. Lesbian Author!
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Category: Space-based
Summary: Jimson Alleca, a painter, is going to die even though it is possible for a person to achieve immortality. By staying on his home world, he could live another thirty years, but instead he opts to search the stars for his lost love Russel, and perhaps find a cure for his illness.
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Added on 2/12/2001
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Priorities (1990)
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Lyons, Lynda Lesbian Author!
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Category: Near future
Summary: I was pleasantly surprised by this book. The setting is the near future, when androids are common, and some of them are out of control. The Controllers are responsible for hunting down and terminating rogue androids created by the infamous Doctor. But no one is who they seem to be....
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Added on 12/25/2004
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Net, The (1987)
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MacGregor, Loren J.
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Category: Space opera
Summary: The main character, Jason, is a tough, powerful woman, the CEO of one of the biggest corporations in the galaxy. She’s also been known to steal gemstones for fun. That’s why she can’t resist a dangerous challenge made by one of her top business competitors from the planet New Crete. Jason appears to be bi. I suspect the author might be bi or gay because of a couple of people in her acknowledgments. Mostly I liked the book, but it has a lot of detailed description and I tend to prefer more action, less description.
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Added on 8/22/2004
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Terrorists of Irustan, The (2000)
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Marley, Louise
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Category: Alien society
Summary: Irustan is a planet dominated by an extreme religious fundamentalism. Men are in control, and women are property. But some women are trying to change the system. One main character is a woman passing as a man who is in love with the other main female character.
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Added on 5/15/2001
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Angel of Destruction (2001)
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Matthews, Susan R. Lesbian Author?
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Summary: A novel in her Judiciary universe.
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Added on 1/12/2005
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Colony Fleet (2000)
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Matthews, Susan R. Lesbian Author!
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Category: Far future
Summary: A fleet of ships left Earth several hundred years before to colonize a group of five planets according to a carefully orchestrated plan. But a lot has changed over the centuries and the current generation of colonists isn't sure they agree with the original plan.
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Added on 1/2/2001
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Avalanche Soldier (1999)
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Matthews, Susan R. Lesbian Author!
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Category: Far future
Summary: As a member of an elite paramilitary force, Salli is responsible for protecting the religious shrines scattered throughout the mountainous regions of the troubled state of Shadene. But events embroil her in a moral conflict within herself.
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Added on 1/18/2001
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Hour of Judgment (1999)
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Matthews, Susan R. Lesbian Author!
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Category: Far future
Summary: Third book about the adventures of Andrei Koscuisko. Even worse than the second one.
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Added on 3/20/1999
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Prisoner of Conscience (1998)
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Matthews, Susan R. Lesbian Author!
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Category: Far future
Summary: Second book about the adventures of Andrei Koscuisko. Not as good as the first one.
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Added on 2/8/1998
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