Tiptree, James Jr.    Lesbian Author?

Category: Science Fiction
Summary: James Tiptree, Jr was a pseudonym for Alice Sheldon. Her stories are provocative and lyrical examinations of human nature, and of the role of women in American society.

Griffith, Nicola    Lesbian Author!

Category: Science Fiction
Summary: Three stories by Nicola Griffith: "Touching Fire, "Song of Bullfrogs, Cry of Geese, and "Yaguara." Very good. All have lesbian protagonists. Published by Aqueduct Press, who specializes in feminist science fiction: http://aqueductpress.com.

Duchamp, L. Timmel    Lesbian Author!

Category: Alien invasion
Summary: The Marq’ssan come to Earth to teach humanity to change, become less violent and hierarchical. Kay Zeldin, a historian with former ties to “the Company” is recruited by her old nemesis to be one of the USA’s negotiators.

There are a lot of lesbian characters. I thought the book needed another draft or two. This is the first of five books in the Marq’ssan cycle. Available from the publisher: Aqueduct Press (http://aqueductpress.com), who specializes in feminist science fiction.

Butler, Octavia    

Category: Vampires
Summary: A novel about a woman with amnesia who discovers she is a vampire-hybrid. The story traces her discovery of her own people and a war started by other vampires who want to see her dead. Normally I don’t read vampire fiction, but Butler is such a good writer I read this anyway and was not disappointed. It’s about love, family, and prejudice. The vampires are all basically bisexual when it comes to humans.

Alguire, Judith    Lesbian Author?

Category: Far future
Summary: The Earth of the future is barely surviving, and power has migrated to the colonies. When one woman discovers that the Sun is dying, she has to fight disbelief at the highest levels of power to convince the world that Earth can be saved. Most characters are lesbians.

Spencer, Wen    

Category: Alien invasion
Summary: Another of the tales of Ukiah Oregon, with just scant mention of his lesbian mothers.

Vonarburg, Elisabeth    

Category: Science Fiction
Summary: A lesbian couple plays a minor role. A gay man has a somewhat larger role. This is a story about a woman who notices that the world is subtly different from the way she remembers it and as her life becomes increasingly strange, she tracks down the source of the changes only to discover that the world is definitely not what it seems.

Claremont, Chris    

Category: Military Science Fiction
Summary: The brass called it a by-the-book mission. Lt. Nicole Shea was too green to know that, in space, there’s no such thing.

One of the female characters had a past relationship with another woman.

Morgan, Richard    

Category: Cyber-punk
Summary: Two minor female characters, Jadwiga and Kiyoka, are lovers. The book is the third in a series about Takeshi Kovacs, former Envoy for the Protectorate, now living a life of petty crime. The first two books give some background to this one. They are Altered Carbon and Broken Angels (both 4 stars, but no lesbians). This edition of the book is only available in the UK, so if you are interested, go to amazon.co.uk to check it out. He has another book out, better than the Kovacs novels in my opinion, called Market Forces.

Grimwood, Jon Courtenay    

Category: Science Fiction
Summary: You find out at the very end that two of the main characters, Karo and Razz, were lovers. The rest of the book was a somewhat disjointed tale about the rise and fall of New Venice, a sovereign nation built on old tankers in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. I bought this at amazon.co.uk; there was no US distributer at the time.

Rosen, Selina    Lesbian Author!

Category: Science Fiction
Summary: A fun book about a loud, free-wheeling salvager who finds out she's really the Queen.

Matthews, Susan R.    Lesbian Author?

Category: Science Fiction
Summary: A novel in her Judiciary universe.

Lyons, Lynda    Lesbian Author!

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....

Kress, Nancy    

Category: Science Fiction
Summary: One of the main characters, Gail, is an out lesbian. There was a lot of interesting stuff in the book, but I found it hard to really care about any of the characters.

Ryman, Geoff    

Category: Fantasy
Summary: Cara swore vengeance on the Galo gro Galu for destroying her family. Through magic, she changes in a warrior, a male warrior, and sets out to get revenge. Along the way she teams up with Stefile, a young bondservant, who doesn’t want to believe that the man she loves is really a woman.

Forbes, Caroline    Lesbian Author!

Category: Science Fiction
Summary: Science fiction stories from a lesbian feminist perspective. Some I liked better than others. The writing was good.

MacGregor, Loren J.    

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.

Rosen, Selina    Lesbian Author!

Category: Science Fiction
Summary: This was a disappointment to me since I enjoyed Rosen's "Chains of " books. But Hammer Town needs about two more drafts and some serious editing. Even the main character, Hammer, is just a pale reflection of RJ from the "Chains of" books. I'm hoping this is a fluke and that her other books are better.

Morehouse, Lyda    Lesbian Author!

Category: Science Fiction
Summary: In some ways my favorite of the books in this series. The writing is really good. The one thing that makes me give these a lower rating than perhaps others would is the religious mythology informing the books. It’s just not an interest of mine. I’d love to see Morehouse do some “straight” sci fi.

Rosen, Selina    Lesbian Author!

Category: Science Fiction
Summary: Sequel to Chains of Freedom, and even better, I think. The plot was tighter, for one. The first twenty or thirty pages dragged a bit, but then it got much better. RJ is an awesome character. And Rosen has an excellent sense of detail. Good dialog, too.

Rosen, Selina    Lesbian Author!

Category: Science Fiction
Summary: RJ is fighting the Reliance, which is the global (galactic) human government based on greed and corruption. But she's doing it alone. Then she hooks up with some other rebels and form a ragtag army. What drives the book are the characters, who are all very interesting and very conflicted. RJ is awesome. Her self-assuredness and arrogance remind me of Achilles in the movie Troy. Because, like him, she really is that good. (I'm partial to tough female characters).

Rosenblum, Mary    

Category: Dystopian future
Summary: Jewel Martina is the lead character of this novel about a dystopian future where the suburbs are in decay and the very rich live in Antarctica. Serafina, a major character who appears later in the novel, had a female lover. The primary male character has a male lover.

Westerfeld, Scott    

Category: Space-based
Summary: The second book in the series starting with The Risen Empire. The female lovers continue in this book and take on new importance toward the end.

Westerfeld, Scott    

Category: Space-based
Summary: Scott Westerfeld has created a universe in which death, "The Old Enemy" has finally been vanquished. Over 1,600 years ago, one man developed a technology to enable his dying 12-year-old sister to survive. The only hitch is that the patient had to die first and be resurrected. The Empire is threatened by the Rix, an all-female “race” of cyborgs who worship AI compound minds. One Rix commando and a human soldier (female) fall in love toward the end of the book.

Heinlein, Robert A.    

Category: Science fiction
Summary: Friday is an Artificial Person, struggling with what that means. Along the way, she finds love in unlikely places, has lots of sex, snd kills a few people who get in her way. did I mention that she has lots of sex? Mostly with men. Usually, when a woman expresses interest in her, Friday is willing, but not especially keen, on reciprocation.