Hey, you know that list of 150 Women SF Authors? Well it seems you knew a lot more than that…
So I’ve added in your suggestions and the new list is here, with over 225 Names on it. What I haven’t done is include all the names on Mary Mark Ockerbloom’s wonderful list of pre-1923 Utopias and SF written by women which could keep me in reading for the rest of the century.
Gill Alderman
Dorothy Allison
Nina Allen
Jo Anderton
Patricia Anthony
Kim Antieau
Eleanor Arnason
Catherine Asaro
Constance Ash
Margaret Atwood
Kage Baker
Fleur Beale
Elizabeth Bear
Hillari Bell
Lauren Beukes
Jay D Blakeney
Aliette de Bodard
Leigh Brackett
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Gun Brooke
MM Buckner
Lois McMaster Bujold
Emma Bull
Katherine Burdekin
Octavia Butler
Laura Bynum
Pat Cadigan
Angela Carter
Suzy McKee Charnas
CJ Cherryh
Brenda Clough
Jo Clayton
StormConstantine
Colleen Cooper DeMaio
Louise Cooper
Sara Creasy
AC Crispin
Julie E Czernada
AM Dellamonica
Emily Devenport
Esme Dodderidge
Sonya Dorman
Candas Jane Dorsey
L Timmel Duchamp
Doris Egan
Phyllis Eisenstein
Suzette Haden Elgin
Kate Elliott
Margaret Elphinstone
Carol Emshwiller
MJ Engh
Kelley Eskridge
Bernadine Evaristo
Zoe Fairbairns
Jaine Fenn
Sheila Finch
Jane Fletcher
Melanie Fletcher
Caroline Forbes
Katherine Forrest
Karen Joy Fowler
CS Friedman
Susan Fry
Mary Gentle
Carolyn Ives Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Lisa Goldstein
Jewelle Gomez
Kathleen Ann Goonan
Phyllis Gotlieb
Nicola Griffith
Andrea Hairston
Sandi Hall
Sarah Hall
Cicely Hamilton
Elizabeth Hand
Amanda Hemingway
Zenna Henderson
Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Cecelia Holland
Nalo Hopkinson
Tanya Huff
Monica Hughes
Janis Ian
Shelley Jackson
PD James
NK Jemisin
Jane Jensen
Liz Jensen
Kij Johnson
Diana Wynne Jones Gwyneth Jones
Janet Kagan
Anna Kavan
Marjorie Bradley Kellogg
Leigh Kennedy
Kay Kenyon
Katharine Kerr
Lee Killough
Rosemary Kirstein
Ellen Klages
Nancy Kress
Kim Lakin Smith
Sue Lange
Louise Lawrence
Mary Soon Lee
Tanith Lee
Ursula K Le Guin
Madeleine L’Engle
Rhoda Lerman
Doris Lessing
SN Lewitt
Jacqueline Lichtenberg
Megan Lindholm
Janet Lindskold
Kelly Link
Holly Lisle
Anna Livia
Rosaleen Love
Karin Lowachee
Lois Lowry
Elizabeth A Lynn
RA MacAvoy
Anne McCaffrey
Una McCormack
Sophia MacDougall
Maureen F McHugh
Vonda N McIntyre
Patricia McKillip
Katherine MacLean
Donna McMahon
Margaret Mahy
Louise Marley
Lisa Mason
Susan R Matthews
Julian May
Ardath Mayhar
Judith Merril
RM Meluch
LydiaMillett
Misha
Naomi Mitchison
Laura Mixon
Judith Moffett
Elizabeth Moon
CL Moore
Lyda Morehouse
Chris Moriarty
Janet E Morris
Bharati Mukherjee
Pat Murphy
Linda Nagata
Ruth Nestvold
Audrey Niffenegger
Andre Norton
Claudia O’Keefe
Nnedi Okorafor
Rebecca Ore
Ruth L Ozeki
Jane Palmer
Severna Park
Jennifer Pelland
Marge Piercy
Marianne de Pierres
Rachel Pollack
Ayn Rand
Marta Randall
Cat Rambo
Kit Reed
Leigh Richards
WillowDavisRoberts
Justina Robson
Michaela Roessner
Selina Rosen
Mary Rosenblum
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Joanna Russ
Mary Doria Russell
Jessica Amanda Salmondson
Pamela Sargent
Josephine Saxton
Jody Scott
Melissa Scott
Sydney J van Scyoc
Ekaterina Sedia
Mary Shelley
Nisi Shawl
Susan Shwartz
Alison Sinclair
Johanna Sinisalo
Vandana Singh
Joan Slonczewski
Melinda M Snodgrass
Lucy Snyder
Margaret St Clair
Tricia Sullivan
Steph Swainston
Rachel Swirsky
Cecilia Taon
Judith Tarr
Sheri S Tepper
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Sue Thomas
James Tiptree Jr
Karen Traviss
Mary A Turzillo
Lisa Tuttle
Jean Ure
SL Viehl
Joan D Vinge
Élisabeth Vonarburg
Jo Walton
Kaaron Warren
Jane Webb
Sharon Webb
Leslie What
Kate Wilhelm
Liz Williams
Lynda Williams
Connie Willis
Anna Wilson
Jeanette Winterson
Monique Wittig
N Lee Wood
Virginia Woolf
MK Wren
Helen Wright
Patricia Wrightson
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Ann Tonsor Zeddies
Sarah Zettel
Pamela Zoline
You’ll also find a growing number of these authors reviewed at The SF Mistressworks site started by Ian Sales.
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You’re missing a great sci-fi author who published multiple books with DAW in the 70s and 80s — Doris Piserchia… A Billion Days of Earth, Spinner, The Fluger, Doomtime, etc…
How about Diane Duane and Barbara Hambly? Two of my faves.
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Also, what about Jean Lorrah and Sarah Hoyt and Sarah Ash?
Theodora Goss, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Jennifer Stevenson, Seanan McGuire, Charlaine Harris, Laurell K. Hamilton? More fantasy than sf though.
Duane and Hambly are usually more fantasy than SF — but both of them have done Star Trek books, so yeah, they should probably get on the list. McGuire gets to SF by way of Mira Grant, her pen name for the Feed trilogy (political zombie genre?), I’d say. (Cloning and gengineering a zombie plague (accidentally)? Sounds like SF to me!)
Sharon Lee, co-author of the Liaden universe books, would count? And Debra Doyle, co-author of the Mageworlds books?
Yes, I’ve got to second McGuire/Grant!
Alison Croggon author of the Pellinor series is great writer
STARHAWK! ‘the fifth sacred thing’ is one of the best sf novels i’ve ever read.
Margaret Cavendish, the first woman sf writer.
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