Have you seen my review of the awesome YA novel Zahrah the Windseeker by Nigerian Nnedi Okorafur-Mbachu (but this is a true YA novel, actually appropriate for preteens or young children. I did enjoy it, but it was a bit juvenile) and John Varley's Titan?

The trilogy Titan, Wizard, and Demon is by an American man, but it's got fantastic female characters and some lesbian romance in it and is definitely a case of writing the other done right in my view. It's not just that, but truly speculative fiction with copious food for thought and discussion on multiple axes.