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* The ''Lilith's Brood'' series by Octavia Butler (three novels: ''Dawn'', ''Adulthood Rites'', and ''Imago'') features the oankali, an alien race with three genders: male, female, and ooloi.<ref name="SturgeonFW">{{Cite web |title=17 Pathbreaking Non-Binary and Gender-Fluid Novels |last=Sturgeon |first=Jonathon |work=Flavorwire |date=11 May 2015 |access-date=9 December 2020 |url= https://www.flavorwire.com/518203/17-pathbreaking-non-binary-and-gender-fluid-novels}}</ref> | * The ''Lilith's Brood'' series by Octavia Butler (three novels: ''Dawn'', ''Adulthood Rites'', and ''Imago'') features the oankali, an alien race with three genders: male, female, and ooloi.<ref name="SturgeonFW">{{Cite web |title=17 Pathbreaking Non-Binary and Gender-Fluid Novels |last=Sturgeon |first=Jonathon |work=Flavorwire |date=11 May 2015 |access-date=9 December 2020 |url= https://www.flavorwire.com/518203/17-pathbreaking-non-binary-and-gender-fluid-novels}}</ref> | ||
* In the ''Iska Universe'' series by Geneva Vand, the Iska race of aliens uses nongendered pronouns "eet" and "ta".<ref>https://www.queeromanceink.com/book/roommates-and-space-trees/</ref> | * In the ''Iska Universe'' series by Geneva Vand, the Iska race of aliens uses nongendered pronouns "eet" and "ta".<ref>https://www.queeromanceink.com/book/roommates-and-space-trees/</ref> | ||
* In Clive Barker's fantasy/sci-fi book ''Imajica'', a main character named Pie'oh'pah is a shapeshifting extraterrestrial who uses the pronoun "it". | |||
* In Lois McMaster Bujold's ''Vorkosigan Saga'', major character Bel Thorne is one of a group of humans who were genetically engineered to have both male and female sex organs. This group is called "hermaphrodites" and use the pronoun "it". Bel Thorne is noted to usually have an "ambiguous-to-male" [[gender expression]], but sometimes presents more femininely. Additionally, there is a group of genetically-engineered beings called the "ba" who have no sex organs and are used as servants in the Cetagandan Empire. | |||
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