From: moh2@midway.uchicago.edu (Kateri/Mary Anne)
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Subject: Alternate Sexuality in SF/F
Date: 9 Nov 92 23:19:10 GMT
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[Apologies for the delay in posting this; we were trying to decide
how we could fit this into r.a.s.f.r, and then there was a short but
annoying news software problem on presto.ig.com.  We hope to offer 
other original works of critical/scholarly bibliography in the future.
-- MCB, for the r.a.s.f.r Moderators]

	SF and Fantasy Alternate Sexuality Listing
	------------------------------------------

(All comments and critique welcome.  My mail ate a whole bunch of
stuff sent to me, so if something you recommended isn't here, that's
almost certainly why.  I'd appreciate any comments on the books
listed here, any additional books by these authors, regardless of
sexual content, and anything you may have forgotten or assumed
somebody else would recommend :-).  In addition, I'm also looking for
more non-positive renditions of alternate sexuality in fantasy...feel
free to send me SF too and I'll add it to the list even though I may
not use it for my paper.  Many, many thanks...I'm sorry I can't thank
you all personally.  I'll keep posting updated lists every couple of
weeks.)

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Garber, Eric & Lyn Paleo
	Uranian Worlds: A Reader's Guide to Alternate Sexuality in Science
	Fiction and Fantasy


CRITICISM:

Northrop Frye
Fredric Jamison

MAGAZINES:

Amazing Stories
	Quick, W.T. - "Whatever Gets You Through The Night" - March
	1990

Analog
	Byers Edward - "The Disconnect" - August 1982
	Turtledov, Harry - _The Great Unknown_ = April, May, June 1991

Galaxy
	Varley's "Eight Worlds" stories - mid-to-late 70s

Asimov's
	Varley, John - "The Barbie Murders" - Feb 1978
	Shepard, Lucius - "A Traveler's Tale" - July 1984
	Rainbow, Tom - "The Science Fiction of Sex change" - July 1985
	Jablokov, Alexander - "The Death Artist" - Aug 1990
	Casper, Susan - "Nine Tenths of the Law" - Jul 1991
	Varley, John - "Her Girl Friday" - Aug 1992

F & SF Magazine
	Heinlein, Robert - "All You Zombies" - March 1959
	Varley, John - "Picnic on Nearside" - Aug 1974

Omni
	Shepard, Lucius - "Life of Buddha"  - May 1988
	Calder, Richard - "Mosquito" - Jul 1990

Penthouse
	Ellison, Harlan - "Erotophobia" - 1981

Playboy
	Heym, Stefan - "The Wachsmuth Syndrome" - Sept 1972

ANTHOLOGIES:

	Baen, Jim - New Destinies IX
		Flynn, Michael - "Werehouse" - Fall 1990

	Carr, Terry - Universe 9 & 10
		Varley, John - "Options"
		Busby, F.M. - "First Person Plural"

	Datlow, Ellen - Alien Sex
		Baker, Scott - "The Jamesburg Incubus"

	Decarnin, Camilla - Worlds Apart:  An Anthology of Lesbian and
	Gay Science Fiction and Fantasy

	Del Rey, Judy-Lynn - Stellar 7
		Hogan, James - "Identity Crises"

	Dozois, Gardner - Year's Best - 7th and 8th
		Brennert, Alan - "The Third Sex"
		Jablokov, Alex - "The Death Artist"

	Elder, Joseph - Eros in Orbit
		Scortia, Thomas - "Flowering Narcissus"

	Elliot, Jeffrey M. - Kindred Spirits:  An Anthology of Gay and
	Lesbian Science Fiction
	
	Foster, Alan Dean - Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves
		Lynn, Elizabeth - "The Man who was Pregnant"

	Knight, Damon - Orbit 9
		Wilhem, Kate - "The Infinity Box"

	Rusch, Kristine Kathryn - Pulphouse3
		Brennert, Alan - "the Third Sex"

	Sargent, Pamela - Bio-Futures
		LeGuin, Ursula K. - "Nine Lives"

	Scortia, Thomas - Strange Bedfellows
		Carlson, W. - "Dinner at Helen's"

	Torgeson, Ray - Chrysalis 1
		Lynn, Elizabeth - "The Man Who was Pregnant"
	
Fantasy & SF:

Anderson, Poul
	Eutopia

Andros, Phil
	Below the Belt % Other Stories
	The Boys in Blue
	Different Strokes:  Stories
	Roman Conquests
	Stud:  A Novel

Atwood, Margaret (SF)
	The Handmaid's Tale

Baker, Sharon: (boy prostitute) (SF/F)
	Quarreling, They Met the Dragon
	Journey to Membliar
	The Tears of Sassarum
	
Baudino, Gael (F)
	Dragon Trilogy (men changed into women - some become lesbians,
			some don't, some suicide)
	Gossamer Axe (woman searching for her lesbian lover)
	Strands of Starlight

de Berg, Jean
	The Image

Bradley, Marion Zimmer (SF/F) (bisexuality accepted, women's society
with many lesbians, oppressions of women)
	Darkover series
	Thendara House
	The Forbidden Tower
	The World Wreckers
	The Heritage of Hastur
	Lythande (cross-dressing lesbian protagonist)
	Warrior Woman (very bad!) (F) (numerous lesbian characters)
	Ruins of Isis (SF) (numerous lesbian characters)

Bujold, Lois McMaster (SF)
	Miles Vorkosigan series (hermaphrodite character)

Busby, F.M.	
	Zelda M'Tana

Butler, Octavia (aliens transform our race - surprisingly good) (SF)
	Dawn
	Adulthood Rites
	Imago

Card, Orson Scott (SF)
	Songmaster 

Carter, Lin (F)
	Tara of the Twilight

Chalker, Jack L. (gender-changing)
	Changewinds series: (SF/F)
		When the Changewinds Blow
		Riders of the Winds
		War of the Maelstrom
	Soul Rider series: (SF/F)
		Spirits of Flux and Anchor
		Empires of Flux and Anchor
		Masters of Flux and Anchor
		The Birth of Flux and Anchor
		Children of Flux and Anchor
	River of the Dancing Gods series (F)
	Rings of the Master series (SF)

Cherryh, C.J. (SF) (bisexual characters - political handicap)
	Cyteen trilogy (only a trilogy in US paperback edition)

Clarke, Arthur C. (SF)
	Imperial Earth (protagonist is bisexual man)
	Songs of Distant Earth
	2010/2061

Constantine, Storm (SF)
	The Monstrous Regiment (struggle for sexual equality on a
planet slipping from a proto-feminist society to a matriarchal
dictatorship)	
	Wraeththu series: (humans mutating into hermaphrodites)
		The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit
		The Bewitchment of Love and Hate,
		The Fulfillments of Fate and Desire
	Hermetech (protagonist is bi female; bi males)

Cooke, John Peyton

Delaney, Samuel (highly recommended)
	Babel-17 (SF)
	Dhalgren (SF) (explicit bisexual scenes, alternative
			lifestyles)
	The Jewels of Astor
	Neveryona series: (F)
		Tales of Neveryon
		Neveryona
		Flight from Neveryon
		Return to Neveryon
	Nova 
	Stars in my Pocket Like Grains of Sand (SF)
	Triton (SF)
	The Motion of Light on Water (autobiography)
 	Heavenly Breakfast (autobiography)

Dreher, Sarah

Duane, Diane (F) (bisexuality is the norm; positive)
	Door into Fire
	Door into Shadow
	Door into Sunset
	Door into Starlight (forthcoming)

Elliot, Jeffrey

Farmer, Philip Jose (bisexual vampires)
	Image of the Beast
	Blown

Forrest, Katherine
	Dreams & Swords
	Daughters of the Coral Dawn

Franklin, Patrick
	The Uncertainty of Strangers
	Sea Gift (short story)

Gearhart, Sally Miller
	The Wanderground

Gerrold, David
	The Man Who Folded Himself

Gladney, Heather
	Teot's War

Gomez, Jewelle

Haldeman, Joe
	The Forever War

Hansen, Joseph
	Dave Brandstetter series

Harrison, Harry (SF)
	Star Smasher of the Galaxy Rangers

Heinlein, Robert A. (SF)
	I Will Fear No Evil
	Stranger in a Strange Land (bisexual male protagonist)
	Number of the Beast
	The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (?)
	Time Enough for Love (bisexual incest, in an odd kind of way)
	Friday (bisexual female protagonist)

Huff, Tanya
	Fire's Stone
	Blood Price
	Blood Trail

Kushner, Ellen (F) 
	Swordspoint (bisexual man and gay man)
	Thomas the Rhymer (no bi or gay content, but a great book)

Lackey, Mercedes (F)
	Arrows trilogy: (gay characters)
		Arrows of the Queen
		Arrow's Flight
		Arrow's Fall
	Last Herald-Mage trilogy: (gay protagonists)
		Magic's Pawn
		Magic's Promise
		Magic's Price
	Oathbound
	Oathbreakers
	Winds of Fate
	Winds of Change
	Knight of Ghosts & Shadows (with Ellen Guon) (triple)
	Summoned to Tourney (with Ellen Guon) (sequel to _Knight_)
	Diana Tregarde series: (pagan witch)
		Jinx High
		Children of the Night
		Burning Water
	Born to Run (with Larry Dixon) (boy prostitute)

Lee, Tanith
	Flat Earth series (everyone is bi):
		Night's Master
		Death's Master
		Delusion's Master
		Delerium's Mistress
		Night's Sorceries

LeGuin, Ursula K. (SF)
	The Left Hand of Darkness (neuter alien, except during mating,
		when can be either sex; seminal work)
	The Dispossessed (some bisexuality)

Logston, Anne (F)
	Shadow
	Shadow Hunt

Lynn, Elizabeth (F)
	Chronicles of Tornor:
		Northern Girl
		Dancers of Arun
		Watchtower
	The Woman Who Loved the Moon (short story collection)
	A Different Light (gay male protagonists)
	"The Man Who Was Pregnant" (short story)

McCaffrey, Anne (SF/F)
	Dragonrider series: (implications that green riders are gay)
		Dragonflight
		Dragonquest
		The White Dragon
	The Harper Hall of Pern:
		Dragonsong
		Dragonsinger
		Dragondrums
	Moreta (specific incident with gay male dragonriders)
	Nerilka's Story
	Dragonsdawn
	Renegades of Pern
	All the Weyrs of Pern
	

	Beyond Happiness
	Boys Like Us
	Survival (short story)
	Sweetheart

McGregory, Loren (F)
	The Net (lesbian, gay and bi characters)

McIntyre, Vonda N. (SF)
	Starfarers (partnership of two men and a woman)
	Dreamsnake
	Transition
	Metaphase

Meier, Shirley
	Shadow's Daughter (2nd book in series with S.M. Stirling)
	The Sharpest Edge (with Stirling)
	The Cage (with Stirling)
	Shadow's Son (with Stirling and Karen Wehrstein)

McGehee, Peter

Minns, Eric
	Island Boy

Moon, Elizabeth
	Deed of Paksenarrion (pair of lesbians; homosexuality fairly
			normal though uncommon, asexual heroine)

Moorcock, Michael
	Gloriana (F) (detailed exploration of sexuality)
	many, many SF novels which mention bisexuality in passing

Morrow, James
	
Nader, George
	Chrome

Piercy, Marge (SF) 
	Woman at the Edge of Time (bisexual utopia)

Pohl, Fred (SF)
	Gateway (bisexuality is the norm and concern of protagonist)

Pollack Rachel
	"Black Rose, White Rose" (short story)

Reage, Pauline
	The Story of O (I & II) (s&m, lesbians, slavery)

Rice, Anne (F)
	Vampire series:
		Interview with a Vampire
		The Vampire Lestat
		Queen of the Damned
	Cry to Heaven
	Exit to Eden (as Anne Rampling) (s&m)
	Sleeping Beauty series (as A.N. Roquelaire) (s&m) 

Ridley, Philip
	Crocodilia [publ:  Brilliance]

Rivkin, J.F. (F)
	Silverglass series: (two bisexual female protagonists)
		Silverglass
		Web of Wind
		Witch of Rhosthyl
		Mistress of Ambiguities

Robinson, Spider (SF)
	Stardance
	Timepressure (scared butch men discovering bisexuality)
	Callahan's Lady 
	Lady Slings the Booze (forthcoming)

Russ, Joanna
	"When It Changed" (lesbian) (Ellison's _Dangerous Visions_
		series)
	The Female Man

Ryman, Geoff
	The Child Garden

Scott, Melissa 
	Mighty Good Road  (SF) (lesbian protagonist)
	The Armor of Light (with Lisa Barnett) (F) (several gay males)

Silverberg, Robert (SF/F)
	At Winter's End (bisexual woman; twining?; voluntary conception)

Slonczewski, Joan
	Door into Ocean

Spedding, (Alison) (F) (bisexual female protagonist in sexist and
			homophobic society)
	The Road and the Hills
	A Cloud over Water
	The Streets of the City

Stirling, S.M.
	Marching Through Georgia
	--- (second book of trilogy)
	The Stone Dogs (first real treatment of homosexuality in
	trilogy)
	Snowbrother (rest of series see Meier and Wehrstein)

Sturgeon, Theodore (SF)
	Venus Plus X (gender identity)

Tarr, Judith (F)
	Avaryan Rising:
		The Hall of the Mountain King (bi mercenaries)	
		The Lady of Han-Gilen
		A Fall of Princes (two rival princes fall in love, one
		eventually undergoes a sorcerous sex-change)

Tiptree, James (SF)
	Starsongs of an Old Primate (short story collection)
		Your Haploid Heart
		A Momentary Taste of Being

Vance, Jack (F)
	The Green Pearl (second in Lyonesse trilogy - bisexual and
	homosexual characters)

Varley, John
	Gaea Trilogy: (SF/F) (bisexual woman hero)
		Titan
		Wizard
		Demon		
	Opiuchi Hotline (SF) (sex change)
	The Persistence of Vision (SF)
	The Barbie Murders (SF)
	Hall of the Martian Kings (SF)
	Blue Champagne (SF)
	Steel Beach

Wehrstein, Karen
	Lion's Heart
	Lion's Soul
	Shadow's Son (with Shirley Meier and S.M. Stirling)

Wittig, Monique
	Lew Guerilles

Woolf, Virginia
	Orlando (sex-changing across time)

Wright, Helen (SF)
	A Matter of Oaths (bisexuality is the norm)
	
Yolen, Jane (F)
	Sister Light, Sister Dark
	White Jenna

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