Grimwood, Jon Courtenay    

Category: Cyber-punk
Summary: Lesbian characters include the Pope (dead) and her lover who has been pretending to be her sister. The lesbian part is pretty small and comes at the end. Even so, it's an interesting romp of a book.

Spinrad, Norman    

Category: Far future
Summary: A planet where men and women are mostly equal (with a slight advantage to the women) becomes the site of an ideological war between the radical anti-male Earthers, and a society of scientists who believe that women are innately inferior to men.

Dorsey, Candas Jane    Lesbian Author?

Category: Near future
Summary: An unusual household of artists (of various sexualities) becomes the refuge of a space alien fleeing the US government.

Morehouse, Lyda    Lesbian Author!

Category: Science fantasy
Summary: Deidre McMannus has had her connection to the LINK, a worldwide virtual-reality interface, severed as punishment for a crime she did not commit. She finds that she is uniquely qualified to determine the truth of the rumors of “angels” in the LINK. The leader of the rebels is a lesbian.

Brojim, RC    Lesbian Author!

Category: Space opera
Summary: Dani Forrest is captain of the Boadicea, a ship in the Explora Command's Minority Fleet. This special fleet is where gay and lesbian personnel serve. A mysterious disease infects her crew, just when they are trying to investigate an interstellar incident.

McMahon, Donna    

Category: Dystopian future
Summary: Runaway Klale Renhardt learns to survive in the troubled Vancouver of the 22nd century. The Klon-dyke bar becomes her haven. Very solid characterization and plot building. Most of the sexuality stuff is “bent” in the book's terminology.

McArthur, Maxine    

Category: Space-based
Summary: Maria Halley commands the space station Jocasta. The station is under seige by an alien race no one can communicate with. The residents and refugees are hungry and tired of the blockade. The computer system keeps failing in mysterious ways. And the alien ambassadors of the Four Worlds are being anything but helpful. The last thing she needs is evidence that a tireless, viciously imaginative killer is on board the station.

Farrell, Matthew    

Category: First contact
Summary: Thunder Rift is an artificially created wormhole. Taria, an anthropologist, is one of the first to go through to find out what waits on the other side. Matthew Farrell is a pseudonym for Stephen Leigh, who often writes about gay/lesbian characters and issues.

Marley, Louise    

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.

Forbes, Edith    

Category: Cyber-punk
Summary: Characters discover they are virtual and that they can change bodies at will. Both use both M & F, but both prefer F.

Flynn, Michael    

Category: Science Fiction
Summary: The world learns that a rock big enough to obliterate Manhattan is six years from impact. Interestingly, this rock hasn't wobbled off from the Asteroid Belt but seems to have been aimed. A lesbian was one of the trainees; made a pass at the main character.

Leigh, Stephen    

Category: Alien society
Summary: Alien females had sex/relationships with each other and males were “animals.”

Lynn, Elizabeth A.    Lesbian Author!

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.

Salmonson, Jessica Amanda    Lesbian Author!

Category: Fantasy
Summary: Story of the female samurai Tomoe Gozen in the mythical land of Naipon.

Matthews, Susan R.    Lesbian Author!

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.

Matthews, Susan R.    Lesbian Author!

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.

Freireich, Valerie J.    

Category: Science Fiction
Summary: In the Polite Harmony of Worlds, Testament, a small planet ruled by Matriarchal clans, is in quarantine because of the genetically modified Altereds. All of Freireich's books are good.

Harris, Anne    

Category: Bioengineering
Summary: Magnolia, a runaway, is taken in by a wealthy designer of androids. She finds herself more or less trapped in his mansion in Siberia with the brilliant biophysicist Cid, a pair of dangerous bodyguards, and a strange, half-human creature who lives in the greenhouse pool.

Vonarburg, Elisabeth    

Category: Far future
Summary: This is a future earth where only 3% of the population is born male, and there are very strict rules for how men and women can live their lives. Women form relationships with each other, but men are discouraged from doing so. Male-Female relationships based on love are unheard of.

Harris, Anne    

Category: Bioengineering
Summary: Chango Chichelski is a “sport”--a mutant due to exposure to the growth medium of the GeneSys bioengineering vats. She falls in love with a fanged and four-armed sport named Helix.

Sterling, Bruce    

Category: Dystopian future
Summary: Leggy Starlitz is a charismatic scam artist, who is manager of G-7, a Spice Girls copy band that he is promoting in third world countries. His estranged daughter suddenly appears, and he changes his life in order to be a real father. His ex-wife is a lesbian.

Ore, Rebecca    

Category: Dystopian future
Summary: In a gray, industro-technical future, Jayne can't decide if she wants to be respectable and conform, or if she wants to buck the system. One of the women she encounters on her journey is a lesbian.

Gardner, James Alan    

Category: Science Fiction
Summary: Faye Smallwood is a member of the Vigil, a group of independent monitors charged with rooting out government corruption. Faye becomes the target of unknown assassins in a sinister conspiracy that threatens to unleash a deadly virus on the planet. Main character is bi. There's a lesbian romance too. Gardner usually has strong female characters in his novels.

Arnason, Eleanor    

Category: Alien society
Summary: The Hwarath society is homosexual and thinks heterosexuality is a perversion.

Slonczewski, Joan    

Category: Colonization
Summary: Foxfield is a quiet backward planet, home to a society of Quaker colonists. After a century of silence, Earth contacts them, offering technology to improve their lives. But the technology comes with a price, and with the threat of destruction if they refuse it. One of the Earthers who comes to Foxfield is, and she even shares an unexpected kiss with the main character.