Rape in SF

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.

Works in which rape is a central theme, or central in development of plot or character

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)