Published in 1906, The Anglo-American Alliance: A Serio-Comic Romance and Forecast of the Future by Gregory Casparian is considered to be the first [*] science fiction novel featuring two heroines who are Lesbian. The novel features the relationship in a positive light and also features a case of gender reassignment.
Casparian immigrated to the United States in 1877. According to his memorial on “Find a Grave” he was forced to leave the Ottoman empire as he had been an officer in the Armenian militia fighting the Turks. He attended Massachusetts Agricultural College, prior to moving to Brooklyn. He worked as an artist, painter, and photoengraver. This was his only novel.
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There are several publishing houses who have re-published the novel, including Lector House, Echo Library, and Sagwan Press.
The novel is set in the future of 1960 and depicts a world that is geopolitically broadly similar to that of 1906, with Britain and the U.S. as the world’s major colonial powers. The novel follows the romance of two young upper-class women, the Briton Aurora Cunningham and the American Margaret MacDonald, who attend the same ladies’ seminary in Cornwall and pursue a secret romantic relationship.
Synopsis of The Anglo American-Alliance
