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Night Sky Mine (1997)
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Scott, Melissa Lesbian Author!
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Category: Cyber-punk
Summary: “Wild programs" are appearing suddenly and randomly in cyberspace and threatening to cause a second great crash among Federation citizens and the workers of the Night Sky Mine Company.
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Added on 3/1/1997
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Glory Season (1993)
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Brin, David
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Category: Alien society
Summary: Female-dominated world, where men are trying to change their place in it. Well done.
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Added on 2/1/1997
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Random Acts of Senseless Violence (1993)
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Womack, Jack
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Category: Dystopian future
Summary: Twelve-year-old Lola Hart's family life decays along with the urban landscape around her. When her parents lose their jobs and move from Upper East Side Manhattan to Harlem, Lola finds herself spending more and more time with a local street gang. Amid these crises, Lola also discovers that she likes girls.
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Added on 12/1/1996
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Mainline (1996)
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Christian, Deborah
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Category: Alien society
Summary: An assassin's ability to shift between alternate time lines makes it easy for her to avoid being caught. I call the main character a lesbian because of her obvious interest in one of her clients, though no affair ever develops.
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Added on 6/1/1996
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Handmaid's Tale, The (1986)
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Atwood, Margaret
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Category: Dystopian future
Summary: Dystopian future where ultra-conservative Christians have taken over part of the United States and conscripted fertile women to bear children for high-ranking men. I disliked this book because the main character was a wimp, but her best friend was a lesbian.
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Added on 5/1/1996
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Herland (1915)
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Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
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Category: Utopia
Summary: Set just before World War I, the story concerns an all-female society that is discovered by three male explorers. 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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Slow River (1996)
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Griffith, Nicola Lesbian Author!
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Category: Near future
Summary: Born into a wealthy family, Lore leads a life of privilege and power. Then she is kidnapped, but is shocked to discover her family isn't going to pay the ransom. She escapes, but into a world she is unequipped to handle. She is rescued by the street-smart Spanner, who teaches Lore to survive by exploiting the Net (and human) weaknesses.
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Added on 5/1/1996
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Ammonite (1993)
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Griffith, Nicola Lesbian Author!
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Category: Alien society
Summary: Men cannot live on the planet Jeep because of a virus that kills them. Women are changed by the virus so that they can communicate with the planet itself and give to birth to healthy, genetically diverse children without males. Marguerite Angelica Taishan is an anthropologist who makes the decision to expose herself to the virus so that she can study the society of women that has developed on Jeep since the original colonization effort.
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Added on 5/1/1996
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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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Woman Who Loved the Moon, The (1984)
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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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Category: Fantasy
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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Category: Fantasy
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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Adversary, The (1984)
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May, Julian
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Category: Fantasy
Summary: Part 4 of The Saga of Pliocene Exile.
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Added on 5/1/1996
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Nonborn King, The (1983)
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May, Julian
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Category: Fantasy
Summary: Part 3 of The Saga of Pliocene Exile.
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Golden Torc, The (1982)
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May, Julian
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Summary: Part 2 of The Saga of Pliocene Exile.
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Added on 5/1/1996
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Many-Colored Land, The (1981)
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May, Julian
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Summary: Part 1 of The Saga of Pliocene Exile. A one-way time tunnel opens to Earth of six million B.C. and all the folks who felt they didn't fit into the Galactic Milieu went through it. Unfortunately, they discovered that someone else had gotten there first.... Has one lesbian, a 19 year old who is rather obnoxious, but by the fourth book redeems herself. Julian May's Galactic Milieu novels usually have gay characters.
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Added on 5/1/1996
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Woman on the Edge of Time (1976)
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Piercy, Marge
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Category: Near future
Summary: Connie Ramos, a woman in her mid-thirties, has been incarcerated in a mental institution. But she isn't insane, she's just able to communicate with the future. The society of the year 2137 is sane, just, and under attack.
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Added on 5/1/1996
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Hidden Side of the Moon, The (1987)
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Russ, Joanna Lesbian Author!
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Category: Short stories
Summary: Some great stories mixed with some not-so-good ones.
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Added on 5/1/1996
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Extra(Ordinary) People (1984)
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Russ, Joanna Lesbian Author!
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Category: Short stories
Summary: Five novellas.
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Added on 5/1/1996
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Zanzibar Cat, The (1984)
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Russ, Joanna Lesbian Author!
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Category: Short stories
Summary: Short stories. Unrated because I haven't read it yet.
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Added on 5/1/1996
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Adventures of Alyx, The (1983)
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Russ, Joanna Lesbian Author!
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Category: Short stories
Summary: Short stories about the warrior woman Alyx. I haven't read it in many years, so it is unrated.
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We Who Are About To... (1977)
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Russ, Joanna Lesbian Author!
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Category: Far future
Summary: When their spaceship crashes on a hospitable planet, most of the crew decides they have to start a colony, which means the women have to have lots of children. But the heroine disagrees with the plan.
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Added on 5/1/1996
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Female Man, The (1975)
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Russ, Joanna Lesbian Author!
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Category: Science fiction
Summary: Four women in four different worlds, all with names beginning with ‘J.' Through mysterious means, they start crossing the barriers between their universes and their interactions change all of their lives.
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Added on 5/1/1996
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And Chaos Died (1970)
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Russ, Joanna Lesbian Author!
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Category: Humans on another planet
Summary: The main character is stranded on a planet where the human colonists have developed psychic powers. Unrated because I haven't read it yet.
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Added on 5/1/1996
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