Halfway Human

Cover from 1998 paperback edition.

1998 novel by Carolyn Ives Gilman.

A race of humans has male, female, and "blands" - neuters; parallels to situations of homosexuals in our society. Val is the straight married woman who uncovers the abuses that the blands suffer, through Tedla, a bland who escaped.

Further reading

• FSF listserv BDG (May 1998, 166K)