Elizabeth A. Lynn

Elizabeth A. Lynn's books are A Different Light, (1978) The Chronicles of Tornor trilogy (consisting of Watchtower, [1979] The Dancers of Arun, [1979] and The Northern Girl [1980]), The Sardonyx Net, (1981) The Woman Who Loved the Moon and Other Stories, (1981), The Silver Horse (1981), Dragon's Winter (1998) and Dragon's Treasure (2004). In addition, her novella, "The Red Hawk" was published as a small-press chapbook in 1984.

Lynn was one of the genre first writers to deal openly with homosexual themes. A Different Light describes the romantic relationship between two men, one a starship pilot and the other an artist with a fatal disease, in a future where very few people die of anything other than violence or old age. Both Watchtower and The Dancers of Arun also concern relationships between two men; not until The Northern Girl, published three years into her publishing career, did she write about love relationships between two women, in this case a young woman who falls in love with a harder-bitten middle-aged woman.

She branched further into writing about nontraditional sexualities with The Sardonyx Net, which is effectively an exploration of nonconsensual sadism from three points of view, including the sadist and one of his victims.

After a long hiatus from writing, she returned in 1998 with the first two books about Karadur Atani (two more are planned). [more to come]