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[salinea]

Meme gacked from marthawells

Sandra McDonald's periodic table of women in science fiction...annotated

Bold the women by whom you own books
Italicize those by whom you've read something of (short stories count)
Star those of whom you've never heard


Andre Norton
C. L. Moore*
Evangeline Walton*
Leigh Brackett
Judith Merril*
Joanna Russ
Margaret St. Clair*
Katherine MacLean*
Carol Emshwiller*
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Zenna Henderson*
Madeline L’Engle
Angela Carter
Ursula LeGuin
Anne McCaffrey
Diana Wynne Jones
Kit Reed*
James Tiptree, Jr.
Rachel Pollack*
Jane Yolen*
Marta Randall*
Eleanor Arnason*
Ellen Asher*
Patricia A. McKillip
Suzy McKee Charnas*
Lisa Tuttle
Nina Kiriki Hoffman*
Tanith Lee
Pamela Sargeant*
Jayge Carr*
Vonda McIntyre
Octavia E. Butler
Kate Wilhelm*
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro*
Sheila Finch*
Mary Gentle
Jessia Amanda Salmonson*
C. J. Cherryh
Joan D. Vinge
Teresa Nielsen Hayden
Ellen Kushner
Ellen Datlow*
Nancy Kress
Pat Murphy*
Lisa Goldstein
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Mary Turzillo*
Connie Willis
Barbara Hambly
Nancy Holder*
Sheri S. Tepper
Melissa Scott*
Margaret Atwood
Lois McMaster Bujold
Jeanne Cavelos*
Karen Joy Fowler*
Leigh Kennedy*
Judith Moffett*
Rebecca Ore*
Emma Bull
Pat Cadigan
Kathyrn Cramer
Laura Mixon*
Eileen Gunn*
Elizabeth Hand*
Kij Johnson*
Delia Sherman
Elizabeth Moon
Michaela Roessner*
Terri Windling*
Sharon Lee*
Sherwood Smith*
Katherine Kurtz
Margo Lanagan*
Laura Resnick
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Sheila Williams*
Farah Mendlesohn*
Gwyneth Jones*
Ardath Mayhar*
Esther Friesner*
Debra Doyle*
Nicola Griffith*
Amy Thomson*
Martha Wells
Catherine Asaro*
Kate Elliott
Kathleen Ann Goonan*
Shawna McCarthy*
Caitlin Kiernan*
Maureen McHugh*
Cheryl Morgan*
Nisi Shawl*
Mary Doria Russell
Kage Baker
Kelly Link*
Nancy Springer*
J. K. Rowling
Nalo Hopkinson*
Ellen Klages*
Tanarive Due*
M. Rickert*
Theodora Goss*
Mary Anne Mohanraj*
S. L. Viehl*
Jo Walton*
Kristine Smith*
Deborah Layne*
Cherie Priest*
Wen Spencer*
K. J. Bishop
Catherynne M. Valente
Elizabeth Bear
Ekaterina Sedia
Naomi Novik
Mary Robinette Kowal
Ann VanderMeer

I'd love to see a lot of SFF bloggers do this meme :)

Comments

[hamsterwoman]

I'll second the Kelly Link rec and (cautiously) sorta-third Yolen. Also, Esther Friesner.

Yolen -- I like her kid/YA short stories, quite a bit, but then I read one where a modern Jewish teenager gets transported to a concentration camp in order to help the women there and... let's just say I didn't think the execution was anywhere near what it would need to be to take on a story like that, so I've kind of cooled down on Yolen. It was an ambitious undertaking, and I respect the intent (Yolen's Jewish herself, btw), but it just did not work for me at all. But her other short stories are still quite nice!

I would heartily recommend Kelly Link (wonderful short stories, sort of magical realism-y -- Pretty Monsters was a very good collection, so I'd rec that if you wanted a bunch of them all at once) and I enjoy Esther Friesner, but I think part of that is my fondness for the Majyk books I read as a teen, even though her short stories are quite different (a good deal darker) and quite good.

[hamsterwoman]

In counterweight, the Yolen short stories I really enjoy: "Mama Gone" and "Winter's King".

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

That definitely sounds like a difficult topic to tackle SFF, yeah.

thank you! Adding Pretty Monsters to my list :)