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List Of Gay SF
Many science fiction and fantasy stories involve LGBT characters, or otherwise represent themes that are relevant to LGBT issues and the LGBT community. This is a list of notable stories, and/or stories from notable series or anthologies, and/or by notable authors; it is not intended to be all-inclusive. Novels with LGBT characters and themes, alphabetical by author surname Short fiction with LGBT characters and themes Anthologies Awards *Gaylactic Spectrum Awards *James Tiptree, Jr. Award *Lambda Literary Awards See also * Sex and sexuality in speculative fiction * Gender in speculative fiction * Queer horror * LGBT literature * List of gay, lesbian, or bisexual figures in fiction and myth, Lists of gay, lesbian, or bisexual figures in fiction * List of LGBT figures in mythology References External linksAlternative Sexualities in Science Fiction and Fantasy List [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (often shortened to sci-fi or abbreviated SF) is a genre of speculative fiction that deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts. These concepts may include information technology and robotics, biological manipulations, space exploration, time travel, Parallel universes in fiction, parallel universes, and extraterrestrials in fiction, extraterrestrial life. The genre often explores human responses to the consequences of projected or imagined scientific advances. Science fiction is related to fantasy (together abbreviated wikt:SF&F, SF&F), Horror fiction, horror, and superhero fiction, and it contains many #Subgenres, subgenres. The genre's precise Definitions of science fiction, definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Major subgenres include hard science fiction, ''hard'' science fiction, which emphasizes scientific accuracy, and soft science fiction, ''soft'' science fiction, which focuses on social sciences. Other no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holly Black
Holly Black (; born November 10, 1971) is an American writer and editor best known for her children's and young adult fiction. Her most recent work is the ''New York Times'' bestselling young adult ''Folk of the Air'' series. She is also well known for ''The Spiderwick Chronicles'', a series of children's fantasy books she created with writer and illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi, and her debut trilogy of young adult novels officially called the ''Modern Faerie Tales''. Black has won a Nebula Award and a Newbery Medal, Newbery Honor. ''The Spiderwick Chronicles'' was adapted into a 2008 The Spiderwick Chronicles (film), film and into a 2023 The Spiderwick Chronicles (TV series), television series, for which Black received a nomination for the Children's and Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Young Teen Series. Early life and education Black was born in West Long Branch, New Jersey in 1971, and during her early years her family lived in a "decrepit Victorian house." She graduated from Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Anglo-American Alliance
''An Anglo-American Alliance: A Serio-Comic Romance and Forecast of the Future'' is a 1906 novel written and illustrated by Gregory Casparian and published by Mayflower Presses. A reviewer for ''io9'' has called it "the first lesbian science fiction novel". Author Little is known about Gregory Casparian (1856–1942). A Turkish-Armenian, Casparian served as an officer in the Turkish army. He emigrated to the United States in 1877, settled in New York and worked as an artist, painter, and photoengraver. ''The Anglo-American Alliance'' is his only published work. Setting and plot The novel is set in the future of 1960 and depicts a world that is geopolitically broadly similar to that of 1906, with the US and the UK as the world's major colonial powers. Casparian stated in the preface that the purpose of the book was to show the desirability of a world government, to which he saw the establishment of an Anglo-American federation as a first step. There are limited technologic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patternmaster
''Patternmaster'' (1976) is a science fiction novel by American author Octavia E. Butler. ''Patternmaster'', the first book to be published but the last in the series' internal chronology, depicts a distant future where the human race has been sharply divided into the dominant Patternists, their enemies the "diseased" and animalistic Clayarks, and the enslaved human mutes. The Patternists, bred for intelligence and psychic abilities, are networked telepaths. They are ruled by the most powerful telepath, known as the Patternmaster. ''Patternmaster'' tells the coming-of-age story of Teray, a young Patternist who learns he is a son of the Patternmaster. Teray fights for position within Patternist society and eventually for the role of Patternmaster. Plot The novel begins with the Patternmaster, Rayal, in bed with Jansee, his lead wife and sister. For a year, there have been no major attacks from the "Clayarks", mutated humans the Patternists have been in constant battle against. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fledgling (Butler Novel)
''Fledgling'' is a science fiction vampire novel by American writer Octavia E. Butler, published in 2005.Charles, Ron. "Love at First Bite." ''The Washington Post''. Washingtonpost.com. 30 Oct. 2005.Gates, Rob"''Fledgling ''by Octavia Butler." Rev. of ''Fledgling'', by Octavia E. Butler. Strange Horizons. 6 March 2006. It was the author's final book published before her death in 2006. Plot The novel tells the story of Shori, a 53-year-old member of the Ina species, who appears to be a ten-year-old African-American girl. The Ina are nocturnal, long-lived, and derive sustenance by drinking human blood. Though they are physically superior to humans, both in strength and ability to heal from injury, the Ina depend on humans to survive. Their relationships are symbiotic: the Ina's venom provides a significant boost to their humans' immune systems and extends their lives up to 200 years. However, withdrawal from this venom will lead to the human's death. The story opens as Shori awa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Octavia Butler
Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction writer who won several awards for her works, including Hugo, Locus, and Nebula awards. In 1995, Butler became the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship.Crossley, Robert. "Critical Essay." In ''Kindred'', by Octavia Butler. Boston: Beacon, 2004. Born in Pasadena, California, Butler was raised by her widowed mother. She was extremely shy as a child, but Butler found an outlet at the library reading fantasy, and in writing. She began writing science fiction as a teenager. Butler attended community college during the Black Power movement in the 1960s. While participating in a local writer's workshop, she was encouraged to attend the Clarion Workshop which focused on science fiction. She sold her first stories soon after, and by the late 1970s had become sufficiently successful as an author to be able to write full-time. Butler's books and short stories dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Burgess
John Anthony Burgess Wilson, (; 25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993) who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was an English writer and composer. Although Burgess was primarily a comic writer, his Utopian and dystopian fiction, dystopian satire ''A Clockwork Orange (novel), A Clockwork Orange'' remains his best-known novel. In 1971, it was A Clockwork Orange (film), adapted into a controversial film by Stanley Kubrick, which Burgess said was chiefly responsible for the popularity of the book. Burgess produced a number of other novels, including the Inside Mr Enderby, Enderby quartet, and ''Earthly Powers''. He wrote librettos and screenplays, including the 1977 television mini-series ''Jesus of Nazareth (miniseries), Jesus of Nazareth''. He worked as a literary critic for several publications, including ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian'', and wrote studies of classic writers, notably James Joyce. A versatile linguist, Burgess lectured in phonetics, and translated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wanting Seed
''The Wanting Seed'' is a dystopian novel by the English author Anthony Burgess, written in 1962. Theme Although the novel addresses many societal issues, the primary subject is overpopulation and its relation to culture. Religion, government, and history are also addressed. A significant portion of the book is a condemnation of war. Burgess once said, "I have spent the last 25 years thinking that ''The Wanting Seed'' could, in my leisurely old age, be expanded to a length worthy of the subject." Plot The novel begins by introducing the two protagonists: Tristram Foxe, a history teacher, and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, a homemaker. They have recently suffered through their young son's death. Throughout the first portion of the novel, overpopulation is depicted through the limitation and reuse of materials, and extremely cramped living conditions. There is also active discrimination against heterosexuals, homosexuality being encouraged as a measure against overpopulation. Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethan Of Athos
''Ethan of Athos'' is a 1986 science fiction novel by American author Lois McMaster Bujold. The title character is Dr. Ethan Urquhart, Chief of Biology at the Sevarin District Reproduction Centre on the planet Athos, who is sent to find out what happened to a shipment of vital ovarian tissue cultures. Set in the fictional universe of Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga, the novel mentions but does not feature her usual protagonist Miles Vorkosigan. To date, Bujold has never revisited the settings of Athos or Kline Station in her many subsequent novels, but the events of ''Ethan of Athos'' are later referred to indirectly in the novels '' Borders of Infinity'' (1989) and '' Cetaganda'' (1995). Bujold had written her first novel '' Shards of Honor'' and its sequel ''The Warrior's Apprentice'' — both unpublished — when she wrote ''Ethan of Athos'', a standalone work that was purposely short "because the current cargo-cult rumor amongst the wanna-be-published back then was that editors wou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lois McMaster Bujold
Lois McMaster Bujold ( ; born November 2, 1949) is an American speculative fiction writer. She has won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record (not counting his Retro Hugos). Her novella '' The Mountains of Mourning'' won both the Hugo Award and Nebula Award. In the fantasy genre, '' The Curse of Chalion'' won the Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature and was nominated for the 2002 World Fantasy Award for best novel, and both her fourth Hugo Award and second Nebula Award were for '' Paladin of Souls''. In 2011 she was awarded the Skylark Award. She has won two Hugo Awards for Best Series, in 2017 for the Vorkosigan Saga and in 2018 for the World of the Five Gods. The Science Fiction Writers of America named her its 36th SFWA Grand Master in 2019. The bulk of Bujold's works comprises three series: the Vorkosigan Saga, the World of the Five Gods, and the Sharing Knife series. Biography Bujold is the daughter of Robert Charles McMas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Civil Campaign
''A Civil Campaign: A Comedy of Biology and Manners'' is a science fiction novel by American writer Lois McMaster Bujold, first published in September 1999. It is a part of the Vorkosigan Saga, and is the thirteenth full-length novel in publication order. It is included in the 2008 omnibus ''Miles in Love''. The title is an homage to the Georgette Heyer novel '' A Civil Contract'' and, like Heyer's historical romances, the novel focuses on romance, comedy, and courtship. It is dedicated to "Jane, Charlotte, Georgette, and Dorothy", novelists Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Georgette Heyer, and Dorothy L. Sayers. Plot summary Romance is in the air on Barrayar as Emperor Gregor's imperial marriage to Laisa Toscane approaches. Miles Vorkosigan wants to woo Ekaterin Vorsoisson, recently widowed (when Miles foiled a terrorist plot on Komarr), but fears that openly courting her so soon after the death of her husband would drive her away. He takes an indirect approach: he hires he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Libba Bray
Martha Elizabeth "Libba" Bray (March 11, 1964) is an American people, American writer of young adult novels including the Gemma Doyle Trilogy, ''Going Bovine'', ''Beauty Queens'', ''The Diviners (Bray novel), The Diviners'' series, and ''Under the Same Stars''. Early life Martha Elizabeth Bray was born in Montgomery, Alabama. Her father was a gay Presbyterian ministers, Presbyterian minister, and her mother was an English teacher. She and her family moved to West Virginia for a brief period, then to Corpus Christi, Texas and finally to Denton, Texas, where Bray attended high school. At the age of eighteen, three weeks after graduating high school, Bray was involved in a serious car accident. She had to undergo thirteen surgeries over six years to reconstruct her face, and has an artificial left eye because of the accident. Bray graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1988 as a Theatre major. As a budding playwright, she felt it important to be in New York City. When ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
