Science Fiction/Fantasy Authors

[danaeris]

I'm looking for either:

(1) SF&F authors who are relatively prominent and have written many books that are queer, kink, and/or poly-positive

OR

(2) SF&F authors who wrote a particularly well-known book that is queer, kink, and/or poly-positive

Ones I can think of off the top of my head:
Laurell K Hamilton
Jacqueline Carey
Tanya Huff (can someone confirm this?)

Other more tenuous ones...
Joe Haldeman for the Forever War
Diane Duane for the Door into _____ series

I need more!

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Today I dropped off my acceptance/deposit at Ryerson.

Then I went to a Service Canada office and filed for my Sickness Benefit.

I was a pile of anxiety when I got up, but now I feel much better. I guess it was just a big day for me.

Comments

[fyfer.livejournal.com]

What's-her-name... Mercedes Lackey. One of her books includes a stable poly relationship and some others have a gay character. (I'm not a big fan of her books but she seems pretty high profile, if perhaps lacking critical esteem.)

[fyfer.livejournal.com]

Aha, Magic's {Pawn, Promise, Price} are about a gay main character. The Heralds of Valdemar trilogy has some significant poly characters.

[jackspryte.livejournal.com]

I forgot about that! (The Valdemar series).

[jackspryte.livejournal.com]

Agreed Mercedes Lackey does have gay and poly characters the Owl series for example.

[cinnamyn77.livejournal.com]

Marge Piercy, particularly her book "Woman on the Edge of Time," may fit the bill.

[vokzal.livejournal.com]

Kate Wilhelm's _Welcome, Chaos_ has low-key poly stuff.

Tanya Huff

[thebitterguy]

The quarter books feature oodles of gay and bi-sexuality. The vampire in the Blood books and the Smoke books is too.

So, yeah, possibly queer positive.

[thespian.livejournal.com]

more tanya huff:

I will also note that her Valour books have PILES of casual sex between all the genders happening in them, in a future where that's just plain ol' accepted, and a supersexual race that makes for some interesting situational things (and a lot of group sex happening off camera).

The second book also has a character based on Lance Sibley, only he seems to get laid more. Even Lance commented on that.

[icedrake.livejournal.com]

Even Lance commented on that.
You mean "whined"? :)

[jackspryte.livejournal.com]

I just noticed your icon BTW. The notion of pancakes and sausage on a stick scares the hell outta me! It's like a pogo but far worse!

[icedrake.livejournal.com]

Confirmation on Tanya Huff. The Quarter series for sure, the Blood series for sure, possibly others.

Also, look up Tanya's partner and fellow SF/F writer, Fiona Patton. She may've written queer/kink/etc.-positive stuff, but I can't recall any right this minute.

[thespian.livejournal.com]

Charles Stross. In the Atrocity Archives, the main character's roommates are a gay couple. And in Accelandro, there's some serious kink going on, and I'm only a story into the arc.

Jim Gardner has had several characters just be in his stories, without doing the 'Look! I have a gay character for you!' thing. And in 'Vigilant', he has a marvellous group family (most of the family is monogamous within itself, though it is 8 or so people, but one member, at least, is shown making contacts outside of the family)

[jackspryte.livejournal.com]

Here we go I found some items on LGBT readers advisory sites:
-Phallos by Samuel Delany historical fantasy with homoerotic content based in Rome
-Carter, Angela. Passion of New Eve. Scientist transforms a man into a woman, then impregnates her with his own seed to create a new messiah.
-Bradley, Marion Zimmer. The Heritage of Hastur. One character has powers related to being gay.
-Disch, Thomas M. On Wings of Song. Bisexual boy trying to live under a theocratic regime
-Strange Devices of the Sun and Moon by Goldstein, Lisa
-Last Herald Mage Trilogy by Mercedes Lackey by tapping into his "gayness" he learns to master his magic.
-One Who is Legion Barney, Natalie. a hermaphrodite possession story.
-George Viereck writes lots of bi and homoerotic horror does that count?
-Woman on the Edge of Time by Piercy, Marge. A Bisexual, eco-friendly future contrasted with harsh contemporary society
-Robinson, Frank M. Dark Beyond the Stars Epic starship adventure with bi-male protagonist.

I noticed that lots of sci-fi characters in the future are bi in quite a lot of novels. Is this the ideal future? Hmmm....Well I think so.

[jackspryte.livejournal.com]

I actually can't comfirm the Heritage of Hastur character is one of the "good guys" or is treated sympathetically. Better to leave it out.

Anyone read it?

[kalagni.livejournal.com]

A Stranger in a Strange Land is kinda poly, depending on how you want to take it, though it does have two homophobic characters which took me a while to understand was actually the character's voice, not the author's. That was by Robert A. Heinlein, and according to wikipedia he's written a couple other books that were actually queer positive.

Wraeththu series by Storm Constantine, it's a well recieved series, but more cult following that hugely popular, but intersexed characters in a society that frowns on "owning" another, and thus has loving couples, who have no issue taking aruna (sex) with others.

[leggylady.livejournal.com]

Elananor Arnason's "Ring of Swords" have gay themes. One of my favorite all time books.

[leggylady.livejournal.com]

HAS, not have

[yaksman.livejournal.com]

Robert Heinlein ,Lois McMaster Bujold , Spider Robinson, John Ringo, David Drake, heck even Jim Butcher has a nice little kink scene in one of the Dresden books.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

Crashcourse by Wilhemina Baird, and it's sequels Clipjoint and Psykosis has a poly relationship involving the main characters.

[bastdanica.livejournal.com]

I just finished reading The Cage by SM Stirling and Shirley Meier. VERY poly-positive culture that is alluded to throughout much of the novel. Gay-positive in some ways, and hints at a culture where everything is vanilla and they despise any other culture who works differently.

Of course, the Cage is not kink, it's simply a goal of a main character; one of the characters has magically acquired steel finger nails where the iron for her nails comes straight from her blood. There is a series built of pre-quels and sequels to this book.

[vsbooklady.livejournal.com]

Cecilia Tan:

definitely queer/kink, and I have a strong suspicion of poly, too.

http://www.ceciliatan.com/

plus she's really hot.

[phoenix-keika.livejournal.com]

Gail Dayton's 'One Rose' series (currently 2 with a 3rd due in summer) is very blatantly poly. The Compass Rose and The Barbed Rose are the 2 that are out so far, and according to her website she's written 2 romances for Silhouette. Her One Rose series is published by Luna, if that makes a difference.

Exit to Eden

[pun-theory.livejournal.com]

Anne Rice/(Anne Rampling pen name)

Haven't seen the movie, but the book is def. kink, a bit of queer, perhaps some poly.

[kaidevis.livejournal.com]

Samuel R. Delany, "Dhalgren". Very strong sexual scenes of a great many sorts (the characters are all very explorative), plus it's just a damn interesting book -- and it's one of that rarest of rarities in literature, a circular book (ends where it begins). Considered one of his best works and I agree completely. Much shorter but with some of the same themes about sex and sexuality is "The Einstein Intersection." I'm certain other of his books would fit, but I've only just started on his corpus in the last two years.

[avt-tor.livejournal.com]

Michael Kube-McDowell's books Alternaties and The Quiet Pools have a strong poly element.