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
- Archeth Indamaninarmal in Richard K. Morgan's A Land Fit for Heroes series (The Steel Remains, The Cold Commands)
- 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
- Dina, minor character in Grimspace and Wanderlust by Ann Aguirre.
- 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
Comics, manga, anime
- Batwoman (resurrected character)
- Karma, aka Xi'an Coy Manh, Marvel Team-Up Vol. 1 #100 (Dec. 1980) (New Mutants; S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Sunfire (Mariko Yashida), Exiles #2, Sept. 2001 (openly lesbian) (alt. dimension version of Mariko)
- Sailor Uranus (Haruka Tenoh) and Sailor Neptune (Michiru Kaioh)
- Satsu, Slayer in Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 8
Movies and television
- Original Cindy and Diamond, Original Cindy's former girlfriend, in Dark Angel
- Ida Teeter (lesbian entomologist) and her lover (played by Misty Mundae) in "Sick Girl" dir. by Lucky McKee
- Isabelle Blundell from "Alienated (TV series)"
- Susan Ivanova and Talia Winters in Babylon 5 were lovers
- Tara Maclay and Willow Rosenberg; Willow & Kennedy (Buffy)
- Xena and Gabrielle (Xena: Warrior Princess)
- Gabby (minor character in Lady Shiva (TV episode) of Birds of Prey (TV series)
Games
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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