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.

Atwood, Margaret    

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.

Baird, Wilhelmina    

Category: Dystopian future
Summary: A love triangle of 2 men and 1 woman, all of whom are down and out and trying to get off planet to a better life, agree to be in a movie. But they find out that the movie is more dangerous than they expected, and that their co-star is out to kill them all. The villian is a lesbian, or at least prefers women.

Bear, Elizabeth    

Category: Humans on another planet
Summary: Michelangelo and Vincent, Coalition spies posing as diplomats, come to New Amazonia to broker an agreement between the two governments. As the story unfolds, you find that nothing is as it seems. Michelangelo and Vincent are lovers, which is why they were chosen for the mission--New Amazonia is ruled by women and they are suspicious of "stud" males. The women of New Amazonia, especially Lesa, are strong and interesting, though the "gay" females in the story are separatists and are not sympathetic characters. Bear did a great job of depicting how cultural assumptions and biases influence our perceptions.

Besher, Alexander    

Category: Cyber-punk
Summary: Too much sex, but interesting world creation, Serious but satirical too. Several minor lesbian characters.

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.

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.

Butler, Octavia    

Category: Dystopian future
Summary: All of Butler's work is excellent, though this is not one of my favorites. Has a minor lesbian character.

Carter, Raphael    

Category: Dystopian future
Summary: Talk about imaginative--the narrator of this book is a whale. It concerns a highly technological future society where there is no privacy, even in your mind, and homosexuality is a crime. Extremely well done.

Charnas, Suzy McKee    

Category: Fantasy
Summary: Book Four of the Holdfast Chronicles. Alldera's daughter, raised by the Riding Women, comes to the Holdfast with a boy child borne by an escaped slave because the Riding Women won't accept him. This novel deserves a 6. The four books together, but especially the last two, have the most complex and realistic characters I've ever encountered.

Charnas, Suzy McKee    

Category: Fantasy
Summary: Book 3 of the Holdfast Chronicles. Alldera and the Free Fems return to the Holdfast and conquer it. Then they have to figure out how to create a new society that also includes the newly freed slaves, and the men, and the women who want to sleep with the men.

Charnas, Suzy McKee    

Category: Fantasy
Summary: Book Two of the Holdfast Chronicles. In this book, Alldera, a slave, escapes the Holdfast and meets the Riding Women, and all female society who have been genetically engineered to reproduce without men. We are also introduced to the Free Fems, who are a band of women who also escaped the Holdfast.

Charnas, Suzy McKee    

Category: Fantasy
Summary: In this world, women (fems) are slaves, and same sex relationships are the norm for both sexes except for required breeding. Men who like sex with females are considered to be perverts. Book One of the Holdfast Chronicles.

Christian, Deborah    

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.

Claiborne, Sybil    

Category: Science Fiction
Summary: Another book about what would happen if AIDS mutated. In this future America, an Orwellian future has outlawed all sexual contact, ostensibly to keep the plague at bay, but really to control the populace. This is the story of one young woman's struggles to deal with her mother's toxic nostalgia, her best friend's cult obsession, and her new partner--a young man who is different from any other she's met. The character of the mother was quite well done (reminded me of my own mother).

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.

Decarnin, Camilla, Eric Garber, Lyn Paleo, ed.    Lesbian Author!

Category: Short stories
Summary: Short stories by gay and lesbian writers.

Dedman, Stephen    

Category: Near future
Summary: The main character starts out as a guy but is swapped into a woman's body. The woman in question happens to have been a lesbian and he continues having relationships with women. Has a good start but the end isn't as strong.

Disch, Thomas M.    

Category: Dystopian future
Summary: The character Shrimp is a lesbian, but Disch doesn't make a big deal of it and it isn't stated outright until 40 or so pages before the end of the book. Before that you think she might be bi.

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.

Dorsey, Candas Jane    Lesbian Author?

Category: Science Fiction
Summary: The story follows five generations of women--from the monumental, sadistic despot to her great-great-granddaughter working in a warehouse--through their travels away from and toward one another. Every kind of sexuality imaginable.

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.

Elliot, Jeffrey M., ed.    

Category: Short stories
Summary: Collection of gay and lesbian science fiction stories. It’s an older anthology, when there was less queer sci-fi around, and I’d already read most of the lesbian stories elsewhere.

Eskridge, Kelley    Lesbian Author!

Category: Science fantasy
Summary: These stories aren't really science fiction, but there's a touch of it here and there, and some fantasy. Mostly they are just fantastic pieces of writing. Even though there's a link to Amazon, you should buy this through the publisher, Aqueduct Press at http://www.aqueductpress.com.

Eskridge, Kelley    Lesbian Author!

Category: Science fiction
Summary: Excellent novel with a dyke heroine. Ren Segura, Jackal to her friends, is convicted of a terrorist act she did not commit. As punishment, she is sentenced to an experimental, virtual solitary confinement program. Eskridge is Nicola Griffith's partner.