Neuter and androgynous species in SF: Difference between revisions

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Stories where either the whole species is neuter; there is a neuter sex; or members of the species pass thru a neuter phase

Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga (Betan hermaphrodites)
Mary Gentle's Golden Witchbreed (1983) (children are neuter)
David Gerrold's Moonstar Odyssey (1977) (children are neuter)
Carolyn Ives Gilman's Halfway Human (1998) (children are neuter until adolescence, and then become male, female, or neuter)
M. C. A. Hogarth's "Freedom, Spiced and Drunk" (2002)
Kameron Hurley's "Genderbending at the Madhattered" (2004)
Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness (people are neuter unless in kemmer)
Vonda McIntyre. "Wings" in The Alien Condition, edited by Stephen Goldin (New York: Ballantine, 1973) [children are gender-neutral and choose at puberty]
R. M. Meluch's Wind Child (1982) (an androgyne character)
Theodore Sturgeon's Venus Plus X (1960) (an entire species appears to be neuter)

Bilker, Harvey L. "Genetic Faux Pas" in Thomas N. Scortia's Strange Bedfellows (1972)
Delany, Samuel. "Aye, and Gomorrah ... " (first published in Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison, 1967).

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 * [[Kameron Hurley]]'s "Genderbending at the Madhattered" (2004)
 * [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]'s [[The Left Hand of Darkness]] (people are neuter unless in [[kemmer]])
+* [[Vonda McIntyre]]. "Wings" in <I>The Alien Condition</I>, edited by Stephen Goldin (New York: Ballantine, 1973) [children are gender-neutral and choose at puberty]
 * [[R. M. Meluch]]'s [[Wind Child]] (1982) (an androgyne character)
 * [[Theodore Sturgeon]]'s [[Venus Plus X]] (1960) (an entire species appears to be neuter)