Rape in SF

Coerced sex.

See rapability for a discussion of the ways in which female characters are always figured as rapable or placed in peril of rape.

List of Works

Works in which rape is a central theme, or central in development of plot or character.

• Suzy McKee Charnas. Walk to the End of the World
• Lois Gould. A Sea Change (1976)
• Elizabeth Hand. "Cleopatra Brimstone" in Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction, edited by Al Sarrantonio (2001)
• Nalo Hopkinson. Midnight Robber (2000) [child abuse]
• Gwyneth Jones. The White Queen [alien rapes human thru mixed signals]
• Mercedes Lackey. Magic's Price (1990) [homosexual gang rape]
• Mercedes Lackey. Arrows' Fall (1988)
• Sam Merwin. Chauvinisto (1976)
• Diana Rivers. Journey to Zelindar: The Personal Account of Sair of Semasi: Book 986 of the Hadra Archives (Lace Publications, 1987) (Hadra 3) (A country of lesbian separatists, the Hadra, is protected by the Goddess in a patriarchal society. After a gang-rape, Sair of Semasi escapes her country after a rape and is taken in by the Hadra.)
• Mary Doria Russell. The Sparrow
• James Tiptree, Jr. "Mama come Home" (1968) [alien females rape human males]
• John Varley. Titan (Gaean Trilogy v.1)
• Kate Wilhelm. The Clewiston Test (1976)
• Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. "False Dawn" (the story, which was part of the book) in Strange Bedfellows edited by Thomas Scortia (1972).
• Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. "Un Bel Di" in Two Views of Wonder, edited by Thomas Scortia and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (New York: Ballantine, 1973)