Lesbian Speculative Fiction
recommendations by Tenea D. Johnson
Recorded By Sonja Franeta from Tenea's video
For more info, visit: www.teneadjohnson.com.
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Carmela by Sheridan Le Fanu (1872) lesbian protagonist (not author)
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The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez
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The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
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The Female Man by Joanna Russ
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Xenogenesis Trilogy by Octavia Butler
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Slow River, Ammonite, Bending the Landscape (anthology) by Nicola Griffith
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Heiress of Russ 2013 (anthology) coedited by Tenea Johnson
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Ash, Last Night at the Telegraph Club, “one true love” by Malinda Lo
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An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
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The Salt Roads, Falling in Love with Hominids by Nalo Hopkinson
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Catherine Lundoff (no specific book)
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Ever Fair by Nisi Shawl
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Fire Logic by Laurie J. Marks
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Ginn Hale (bisexual or queer)
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When Fox is a Thousand by Larisa Lai
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Smoketown, R/Evolution, Blueprints for Better Worlds by Tenea D. Johnson
(A couple of names of books I did not get.)
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