Women Science Fiction Writers

[affreca]

So there's another round of women who write science fiction, and people posting their top 10 lists. I'm not good with figuring out my favorites and I dislike that it seems to always be the same names. So I decided figure out what other names I could come up with. And to get as many as possible, went through my librarything catalog and post all the authors that I own science fiction books by. Maybe it will inspire one of you to check out a new author.


Kage Baker
Elizabeth Bear
Clare Bell
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Lois McMaster Bujold
Emma Bull
Octavia Butler
Pat Cadigan
Bryn Chandler
C. J. Cherryh
Helen Collins
Flynn Connolly
A. C. Crispin
Julie E. Czerneda
Emily Devenport
Paula Downing / Paula King / P. K. McAllister
Debra Doyle
Phyllis Eisenstein
Kate Elliott / Alis A. Rasmussen
Jane Emerson / Doris Egan
Valerie J. Freireich
C. S. Friedman
Mary Gentle
Carolyn I. Gilman
Kathleen Ann Goonan
Nicola Griffith
Tara K. Harper
Zenna Henderson
Tanya Huff
Janet Kagan
Katharine Kerr
Rosemary Kirstein
Nancy Kress
Ursula Le Guin
Sharon Lee
Jacqueline Lichtenberg
Holly Lisle
Elizabeth A. Lynn
Louise Marley
Susan Matthews
Julian May
Anne McCaffrey
Sandra McDonald
Vonda McIntyre
Patricia A. McKillip
Shirley Meier
Syne Mitchell
Judith Moffett
Elizabeth Moon
Lisanne Norman
Andre Norton
Jody Lynn Nye
Rebecca Ore
Mary Rosenblum
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Joanna Russ
Pamela Sargent
Melissa Scott
Carol Severance
Sharon Shinn
Joan Slonczewski
Kristine Smith
Sherwood Smith
Wen Spencer
Tricia Sullivan
Sheri S. Tepper
James Tiptree
Karen Traviss
Kathy Tyers
S. L. Viehl
Joan D. Vinge
Karen Wehrstein
Cherry Wilder
Liz Williams
Connie Willis
Jennifer Wingert
N. Lee Wood
M. K. Wren
Jane Yolen
Sarah Zettel

Comments

[frith]

I'm happy to see that you have Janet Kagan on your list. I corresponded briefly with Janet Kagan. Alas, she died a few years ago. I've asked for Tepper's Grass for a gift as I've yet to see it in a bookstore.

[affreca]

I'm sad that she's an author that I only found when she died and I read various remembrances of her. I wish I knew where my copy of Hellspark went, because I desperately want to reread it. Her's is one of the two Star Trek books I've bothered to find.

I'm surprised Grass is hard to find as I think of it as Tepper's best and most classic book. But now that you mention it, paperback swap (my go-to place for not-new books) doesn't have a copy. I'll keep my eyes open.

[frith]

The Trek book is Uhura's Song (which I have not read because it is a Trek novel). I have both Mirabile and Hellspark snuggled one against the other on my book shelf. 8^) She hooked me with a Loch Moose Monster story I read in an anthology.

My sister has probably located a Grass on Amazon. It'll save both her and me the trouble of trying to think up a giftmas present.

[affreca]

I found my copy of Hellspark! Sadly, there isn't quite enough room in my library, so the hardcover shelf is partially behind another shelf, and Hellspark was hiding behind some larger hardcovers. I'm still looking for a copy of Mirabile.