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* Leigh, Stephen. ''Dark Water's Embrace'' (1998) and Speaking Stones (1999)
* Leigh, Stephen. ''Dark Water's Embrace'' (1998) and Speaking Stones (1999)
* Scott, Melissa. ''Shadow Man'' (1995) (space travel creates five common genders)
* Scott, Melissa. ''Shadow Man'' (1995) (space travel creates five common genders)
'''Intersexed individuals of a species, especially humans.'''
* Bull, Emma. ''Bonedance''
* Carlson, William. "Dinner at Helen's" in Strange Bedfellows, edited by Thomas Scortia (1972)
* Cooney, Ellen. ''The Silver Rose'' (1979) (reminiscent of ancient greek theory: a deity's hermaphroditic child is split into two oppositely gendered beings until they re-unite)
* [[Samuel R. Delany]]. ''The Einstein Intersection'' (1967) (hermaphroditic side characters)
* Koster, R. M. ''Mandragon'' (1979) (hermaphroditic child raised as monster; then discovers or is discovered by powers)
* McMahon, Donna. ''Dance of Knives'' (2002) (minor character is hermaphroditic; apparently mutagens have caused hermaphroditism to be not uncommon)


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Revision as of 14:04, 2 May 2007

Hermaphroditism in a species, or as an evolutionary adjustment to humans.

  • Asimov, Isaac. Foundation and Earth (1986) [a hermaphroditic variety of humans; one joins the protagonists]
  • Burdekin, Katharine. Proud Man (1934; 1993) (A human from the future visits 1930s England; humans in the future have evolved "beyond" humanity, and beyond humanity's bi-sexed nature; each individual can reproduce on their own, and is whole, containing both male and female attributes. This human contemplates with amazement the various social oddities of modern English society.)
  • Duchamp, L. Timmel. "Motherhood, Etc." (1993)
  • Grae, Camarin. Stranded (1991, Naiad) (3 women from a hermaphroditic species are sent as "disembodied minds" to Earth to stop a villain. They end up identifying as lesbians and fighting a fundamentalist movement led by the villain.)
  • Joyce, Graham, and Peter F. Hamilton. "Eat Reecebread" (1994)
  • Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness is a type of hermaphroditism: male and female gender in potential
  • Leigh, Stephen. Dark Water's Embrace (1998) and Speaking Stones (1999)
  • Scott, Melissa. Shadow Man (1995) (space travel creates five common genders)
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