Rape in SF

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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. See non-consensual aphrodisiacs for a discussion of this plot device.

List of Works

Works in which rape is a central theme, or central in development of plot or character. This list includes works that are hideously sexist as well as works that are generally feminist.

  • 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)
  • "Pegasus" episode of Battlestar Galactica Season 2, episode 10 (2005) - Female cylon on Pegasus was apparently raped repeatedly; another female cylon character, regular character, is sexually assaulted.
  • "Berserker" (a 2001 film in which a female character is raped to disempower her and prove that she was Brunhilde, an "evil" Valkyrie; see review by SunlessNick)
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