Theme & Character Lists: Human Mutations & Evolution

(Includes transsexual, transgender, homosexual.) These works include societies in which gender has been eliminated, replaced, or transmuted. Humans may have evolved on their own, been changed by non-humans, or merged with non-humans.

• Busby, F. M. The Breeds of Man (1988) [humans genetically modify themselves to avoid AIDS and create hermaphrodites]
• Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis trilogy: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago
  --. "Bloodchild"
• Storm Constantine's Wraethu books
• Doyle, Debra, and James D. MacDonald. "Remailer" in Constance Ash, ed., Not of Woman Born (1999) (a mystery in which a third sex has mutated / evolved)
• Ursula Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness
  --. all of Le Guin's Hainish books deal with human species that have evolved or been directedly evolved from a base
• Stephen Leigh's Dark Water's Embrace (1998)
  --. Speaking Stones (1999)
• Melissa Scott's Shadow Man
• Joan Slonczewski's A Door Into Ocean
• Theodore Sturgeon's Venus Plus X
• Young, Donna J. Retreat: As It Was! (1975) (Humans before they mutated into two sexes were all perfect women who could reproduce parthenogenetically, or occasionally sexually if desired. It is strongly indicated that mutant offspring are what we now know as males.)