Cover | Title and Author | Summary (Scroll) | Reasons (Scroll) | Tags | Date | Audience |
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Steel Beach by John Varley |
Fleeing Earth after an alien invasion, the human race stands on the threshold of evolution, like a fish cast on artificial shores. Their new home is Luna, a moon colony blessed with creature comforts, prolonged lifespans, digital memories, and instant sex changes. But the people of Luna are bored, restless, and suicidal -- and so is the computer that monitors their existence... |
Sex-shifting is commonplace. The narrator is male, female, and neither at different points in the story. Lambda recommended. |
genderqueer, queered culture, | 1993 | Adult | |
Titan by John Varley Series: Gaea Book 1 of 3 |
It begins with humankind's exploration of a massive satellite orbiting Saturn. It culminates in a shocking discovery: the satellite is a giant alien being. Her name is Gaea. Her awesome interior is mind-boggling—because it is a mind. A mind that calls out to explorers, transforming all who enter. |
Bisexual woman, genderqueer aliens, Lambda Recommended |
lesbian, bisexual, genderqueer, alien, | 1979 | Adult | |
Wizard by John Varley Series: Gaea Book 2 of 3 |
Gaea's discoverer, Cirocco "Rocky" Jones, is now herself an inhabitant, plotting wizardry in the remote highlands between two of Gaea's brains. Gaea is old, perhaps dying. Wearily, she assures her usefulness to Earth by performing tawdry miracles.
Enter two pilgrims: Chris'fer, late of San Fransisco. And from the Coven on the dark side of the moon, Robin, small, nine-fingered, female with snake... |
bisexual characters, Lambda recommended |
lesbian, bisexual, genderqueer, alien, | 1980 | Adult | |
Demon by John Varley Series: Gaea Book 3 of 3 |
"Titan, Wizard, and Demon" have enthralled a generation of readers with adventure, humor, horror, and dazzling imagination. Now, in the epic conclusion of John Varley's masterpiece, the satellite-sized alien Gaea has gone completely insane. She has trapped humans in her mind. She has transformed her love of old movies into monstrous realities. She is Marilyn Monroe. She is King Kong. And she must be detroyed. |
bisexual character, Lambda Recommended |
lesbian, bisexual, genderqueer, alien, | 1984 | Adult |