List of lesbian characters in SF
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This is a list of lesbian characters, major or minor, in SF. Lesbianism can be identity or behavior (so including women with bisexual histories).
Fiction
- Alldera in Motherlines, The Conqueror's Child, and The Furies, by Suzy McKee Charnas (also appears in Walk to the End of the World but does not have a female lover in that book)
- Cara in The Warrior Who Carried Life by Geoff Ryman
- Cerise, Trouble's lover, in ''Trouble and Her Friends'' by Melissa Scott
- Dani Forrest, protagonit of Cognate by R. C. Brojim
- Dirishi Zuri in Matadora by Steve Perry
- Friday in Friday (novel) by Robert A. Heinlein (has sex with women)
- Gaby Plauget, Cirocco's lover, in the Gaea trilogy by John Varley
- Gail in Crossfire by Nancy Kress
- Gilda in The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez)
- Grace in How I Saved the World by Philip Slater (bisexual)
- India Carless ("Trouble") in Trouble and Her Friends by Melissa Scott
- Jadwiga in Woken Furies by Richard Morgan
- Janet in The Female Man by Joanna Russ
- Cirocco Jones in the Gaea trilogy by John Varley
- Karis in Fire Logic, Earth Logic,, and Water Logic by Laurie J. Marks
- Karolina in Runaways
- Kiyoka in Woken Furies by Richard Morgan
- Marghe Taishan in Ammonite by Nicola Griffith
- Milena in The Child Garden by Geoff Ryman
- Norres in The Northern Girl by Elizabeth A. Lynn
- Ren Segura ("Jackal") in Solitaire by Kelley Eskridge
- Ruby in Glass Houses by Laura J. Mixon
- Serafina in Chimera by Mary Rosenblum
- Shrimp in 334 by Thomas Disch
- Sorren in The Northern Girl by Elizabeth A. Lynn
- Stefile in The Warrior Who Carried Life by Geoff Ryman
- Sutty in The Telling by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Tabitha Jute in Colin Greenland's Plenty series
- Thenike in Ammonite by Nicola Griffith
- unnamed friend of main character in Archangel Protocol by Lyda Morehouse
- Trouble in Trouble and Her Friends by Melissa Scott
- Zanja na'Tarwein in Fire Logic, Earth Logic,, and Water Logic by Laurie J. Marks
Movies and Television
- Batwoman (resurrected character)
- Diamond, Original Cindy's former girlfriend, in Dark Angel
- Gabrielle in Xena: Warrior Princess
- Ida Teeter (lesbian entomologist) and her lover (played by Misty Mundae) in "Sick Girl" dir. by Lucky McKee
- Isabelle Blundell from "Alienated (TV series)"
- Kennedy (Buffy)
- Original Cindy in Dark Angel
- Susan Ivanova in Babylon 5 (affair with Talia Winters)
- Talia Winters in Babylon 5 (affair with Susan Ivanova)
- Tara Maclay (Buffy)
- Willow Rosenberg (Buffy)
- Xena (Xena: Warrior Princess)
Works by title
Works which include no particular major or named lesbian characters, that nevertheless include lesbians, include:
- Wilhelmina Baird, Crashcourse
- Alexander Besher, Rim
- Elizabeth Bear, Carnival
- Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents
- Chris Claremont, First Flight (1981) (bi or lesbian female character)
- C. S. Lewis. Miss Hardcastle in That Hideous Strength (very negative portrayal of a stereotypical sadistic butch)
- Jo Walton. The mother and her lover in Farthing.
- need names
- Melissa Scott. protagonists in Night Sky Mine; many more.
- Stephen Dedman, Foreign Bodies (1999) (protagonist who changes bodies)
- Candas Jane Dorsey, Black Wine (1996)
- Candas Jane Dorsey, A Paradigm of Earth (2001)
- Timmi Duchamp's Marq'ssan Cycle
See also
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