ReadOut 2021 Speculative Fiction Guide
Lesbian Speculative Fiction
Recommendations by Tenea D. Johnson. For more info, visit: www.teneadjohnson.com.
- Carmela by Sheridan Le Fanu (1872) lesbian protagonist (not author)
- The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- The Female Man by Joanna Russ
- Xenogenesis Trilogy by Octavia Butler
- Slow River, Ammonite, Bending the Landscape (anthology) by Nicola Griffith
- Heiress of Russ 2013 (anthology) coedited by Tenea Johnson
- Ash, Last Night at the Telegraph Club, “one true love” by Malinda Lo
- An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
- The Salt Roads, Falling in Love with Hominids by Nalo Hopkinson
- Catherine Lundoff (no specific book)
- Ever Fair by Nisi Shawl
- Fire Logic by Laurie J. Marks
- Ginn Hale (bisexual or queer)
- When Fox is a Thousand by Larisa Lai
- Smoketown, R/Evolution, Blueprints for Better Worlds by Tenea D. Johnson