Hello, I'm currently looking for a good fantasy or sci-fi book to read. It should contain sex here and there and be preferably written in a female perspective (not a must). If anyone knows any good books, please let me know. I would be very grateful. :)
Dead Tree:
C J Cherryh:
Rimrunners (SF)
Cyteen series (4 books, SF)
Morgaine chronicles (4 books, reads as fantasy)
-- all have a female MC (though the Morgaine books are told from the POV of her male sidekick) and minimal sex (some references, nothing explicit)
Sherri Tepper's Gate to Women's Country - a female dominated PA story, the flip side to Attwood's Handmaid's Tale; again sex is minimal and not explicit
John Varley's Gaea Trilogy Titan, Wizard, Demon -- MC (female) is a member of an exploratory expedition to one of Saturn's moons to investigate observational anomalies and which suffers a major mishap on arrival.
Varley has quite a few shorts with female MCs, I can recall and recommend Bagatelle, The Phantom of Kansas and The Barbie Murders, also Air Raid (which was expanded and filmed as Millenium)
John Varley's Gaea Trilogy Titan, Wizard, Demon -- MC (female) is a member of an exploratory expedition to one of Saturn's moons to investigate observational anomalies and which suffers a major mishap on arrival.
Varley has quite a few shorts with female MCs, I can recall and recommend Bagatelle, The Phantom of Kansas and The Barbie Murders, also Air Raid (which was expanded and filmed as Millenium)
The Varley books are a good choice for at least some sex content, definitely from the female POV.
Samuel R. Delany includes more sex in some of his, but I don't remember any of his female led stories being all that race.
Philip José Farmer had some stories where the sex was pretty explicit (e.g A Feast Unknown)
For more of the fantasy side, with some sex but nothing too explicit, G.A. Aiken's Scarred Earth stories (starting with The Blacksmith Queen) have great, strong female leads.
Arizona Tape's Queens of Olympus stories do as well — making the Greek gods' jobs just that, jobs, so you can have a female Zeus, Hades and Neptune (among others.) The gotcha here is that the stories are all lesbian romances, something I enjoy.
On this site, Les Lumens' The Fey Folk stories are short, fantasy pieces with female leads.
Ahaz's I Need to Remember is a fantasy romance that ends up with a female lead.
Brian in the Dark's Dizyntk Imperium stories are science fiction, are variously male and female POV, but the imperium is a matriarchy, so strong female characters abound. I like the concept, so I added a story to the universe.
Kenn Ghannon's Runesward is fantasy told from multiple points of view, some of which are female.
If 'book' encompasses book-length stories on SOL, try Gina Marie Wylie's stories: Sci-fi, female perspective and some sex.
AJ
More dead tree:
The Honorverse is a military science fiction book series by David Weber, centered on the career of space navy officer Honor Harrington.
dead tree, no sex, and MC is male, but the perspective is very, uhm, screwed up. Wen Spencer's "Brother's Price. Alternate world 'western'.
Her "Tinker" series (dead tree) is definitely female MC. Sort of Fantasy/science fiction.
Ilona Andrews (actually a Husband/wife writing team) writes "urban fantasy" several different series. Her most famous is the Kate Daniels series, about a female bounty hunter/mercenary in a world that used to be ours, before magic came back. Were creature clans, vampires, Russian witch covens.
Lions, and Tigers, and Bears. (were versions) Oh, my!
The unfortunately incomplete Chronicles of Rapina, on asstr. Somebody was planning to post it on SOL, but I don't think it got very far.
The Thaumatology series by Niall Teasdale springs to mind. Female lead in a modern fantasy sett in modern day of a world where WWII ended when magic returned. Plenty (some would say too much) sex, but it's mostly a great fantasy/Science Fiction (it can be argued either way) story.
Dragon Rider series by Anne McCafry has severalstrong female MC.
on SOL just finished reread Hidden Heritage series by DeeBee
Elizabeth Moon has SF and Fantasy stories with primarily strong Females. Not so much Sex.
Patricia Briggs. Urban Fantasy.
Ursula K. LeGuin.
For Urban Fantasy, I'd add Kim Harrison's The Hollows series. Nothing explicit, but a lot of well executed tension in the first few books.
To Add to the list, Wen Spencer's Tinker series - Tinker is a strong female MC, and there are a number of other strong female characters around, however no sexual scenes. I won't say no adult themes, there's sex and violence (and sexual violence by the villains), but IIRC nothing that would break the bounds of PG-13.
Niall Teasdales Thaumatology series was already mentioned by Unicornzvi, but Teasdale has written more book series with female MCs (actually I can't remember any with a male MC).
Death's Handmaiden – 8 books;
Tatsu Yamata – 3 books;
Fox Meridian – 10 books;
Aneka Jansen – 7 Books.
Then two series by Laurence Dahners:
Ell Donsaii – 19 books;
The Worlds of Ryn Wilkie – 3 books.
P.G. Allison's Missy the Werecat series – 15 books and the related 3 books about her best friend Tracy the Fire Witch.
In Heinlein's To Sail Beyond the Sunset Lazarus Long's mother Maureen tells about her long life.
Louis L'Amour's Ride the River is the story of Echo Sackett told by herself.
There are more but due to CRS I've problems remembering Titles and authors.
HM.