Planet Lesbian

I have to say I am totally charmed, starting with the headline, by io9's roundup of lesbian sci-fi novels, Greet Your New Lesbian Overlords! "Lesbian sci-fi" in this context meaning not sci-fi by or for or about lesbians, but specifically sci-fi about imaginary lesbian societies in which everybody is a lesbian, a.k.a. the perfect world. Can you imagine?? It would be a veritable utopia of sensible shoes. Novels that get a nod:

• Ammonite by Nicola Griffith


• Houston, Houston, Do You Read? by James Tiptree Jr.


• Walk To The End of the World and Motherlines by Suzy McKee Charnas


• The Marq'ssan Cycle by L. Timmel Duchamp


• The Door into Ocean by Joan Slonczewski


• The Wanderground by Sally Gearhart


• Virgin Planet by Poul Anderson


• Solution Three by Naomi Mitchison, and


• Shore Of Women by Pamela Sargent

It's really worth reading the whole story just for the canny, snarky synopses of each novel by io9's Charlie Jane Anders and Liz Henry of Feminist SF. (Bonus: a link to a slightly more comprehensive list of Gay- or Female-Run Worlds.)

I'm all for it. Because, seriously, men? Who needs 'em.

Greet Your New Lesbian Overlords! [io9]