Carol Berg
Elizabeth Moon (Vatta series)
Kathe Koja
Steph Swainston
Katherine Neville
Mary Rosenblum
Valerie J. Freireich
Elisabeth Vonarburg
Tananarive Due
Jeanette Winterson
Susan Palwick
still waiting for your review of Tamar Yellin
Liz Williams
Kay Kenyon
Elizabeth Bear
Tanya Huff
C.S. Friedman (books other than Coldfire, honestly, it's not her best; the latest fantasy is great)
Jo Graham
Holly Phillips
Angela Carter
Patricia A. McKillip
Karin Lowachee
But please excuse me, I'm currently busy falling in love with Walter Jon Williams. In fact, he deserves an honorary spot on this list, because I don't remember the last time I so loved the lead female character, written by a male author, in a hard scifi novel at that. And the books are just fantastic. I'm 3:0 so far: Dread Empire's Fall, Hardwired, and Metropolitan. How long can he keep it up, I wonder?
Elizabeth Moon (Vatta series)
Kathe Koja
Steph Swainston
Katherine Neville
Mary Rosenblum
Valerie J. Freireich
Elisabeth Vonarburg
Tananarive Due
Jeanette Winterson
Susan Palwick
still waiting for your review of Tamar Yellin
Liz Williams
Kay Kenyon
Elizabeth Bear
Tanya Huff
C.S. Friedman (books other than Coldfire, honestly, it's not her best; the latest fantasy is great)
Jo Graham
Holly Phillips
Angela Carter
Patricia A. McKillip
Karin Lowachee
But please excuse me, I'm currently busy falling in love with Walter Jon Williams. In fact, he deserves an honorary spot on this list, because I don't remember the last time I so loved the lead female character, written by a male author, in a hard scifi novel at that. And the books are just fantastic. I'm 3:0 so far: Dread Empire's Fall, Hardwired, and Metropolitan. How long can he keep it up, I wonder?
This message last edited by Aeryn on 13/09/2009 at 10:15:56 PM
This board is severely lacking in discussion of female authors
- 12/09/2009 08:11:46 AM
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I think what you mean is this board is lacking in discussion of lesser-known authors...
- 12/09/2009 10:49:56 AM
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While part of that is true, part of it really deals with a thought when I glanced through the posts
- 12/09/2009 10:55:07 AM
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The world is severely lacking in famous female authors.
- 12/09/2009 02:53:03 PM
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Wanna bet?
- 13/09/2009 08:23:14 AM
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Incorrect.
- 15/09/2009 04:14:06 PM
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You might want to edit that...
- 15/09/2009 04:40:32 PM
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Actually, most of those authors are talked about on other boards and blogs
- 16/09/2009 12:22:46 AM
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... That doesn't actually change the truth-value of his statement. *NM*
- 16/09/2009 05:31:30 AM
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Is KJ Parker actually a woman?
- 16/09/2009 12:27:35 AM
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Probably.
- 16/09/2009 04:51:57 AM
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It is not uncommon in the publishing industry to pull tricks like that.
- 16/09/2009 11:19:04 AM
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female authors
- 12/09/2009 10:28:12 PM
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I discovered Morgan Llywellyn when I was in my late teens/early 20s
- 13/09/2009 08:24:15 AM
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None. Why in the world would you place a quota on gender? *NM*
- 12/09/2009 10:46:45 PM
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Who said anything about "quotas"?
- 13/09/2009 08:11:21 AM
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It can be inferred.
- 14/09/2009 12:45:18 AM
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it can only be inferred if you confuse the necessity employed.
- 19/09/2009 06:49:17 AM
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Mm.
- 19/09/2009 07:13:27 AM
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Everyone knows women can't write! They are by far inferior to men!
- 13/09/2009 01:42:16 AM
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Connie Willis, Susanna Clarke, Diana Wynne Jones, Megan Whalen Turner (to start with)
- 13/09/2009 01:47:17 PM
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So many others
- 13/09/2009 10:02:29 PM
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I read mostly scfi these days and there just are not that many new female scfi writers
- 14/09/2009 04:28:31 PM
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Jaine Fenn and Liz Williams are two pretty decent recently-emerging SF writers. *NM*
- 15/09/2009 04:15:40 PM
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This post is severely lacking in discussion of male authors. *NM*
- 15/09/2009 04:42:23 PM
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*NM*
