Lithub's 10 Great Reads From the Feminist Lesbian Sci-Fi Boom of the 1970s

"It was the mid-70s, and I was in my mid-twenties—immersing myself in feminism and coming out—when (from my point-of-view) women, often lesbians, simply took over science fiction. Women had always been there, but the sheer volume of mind-twisting feminist plots and not-creepy lesbian characters on bookstore shelves was heady stuff. By the 80s I was part of a feminist bookstore, and you bet I expanded and carefully curated our science fiction section with great joy. It was as if I and this genre that had supported me most of my life were evolving together. My own bookshelves, despite many moves and purges, are still filled with books from those times. They're piled around me while I write. Here, I'm going to mostly choose the most forgotten. (Readers will be pissed about the ones I leave out; heck, I'm already mad at myself.)"