from readers to writers...
and you know, I consider myself a reasonably well read individual (for the genre, at least), and there were at least 10 of those I haven't read...
You are likely overstating some of their well-knownity.
All reasonably well-known female readers to any serious fan of the genre:
Margaret Atwood
Kage Baker
Alex Bell
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Poppy Z. Brite
Lois McMaster Bujold
Octavia Butler
Pat Cadigan
Jaqueline Carey
Kristin Cashore
Trudie Canavan
CJ Cherryh
Storm Constantine
Leigh Eddings
Kate Elliott
Jaine Fenn
Maggie Furey
Diana Gabaldon
Mary Gentle
Barbara Hambly
Elizabeth Hand
Robin Hobb
Diana Wynne Jones
JV Jones
Nancy Kress
Ursula K. LeGuin
Doris Lessing
Katherine Kerr
Mercedes Lackey
Gail Z. Martin
Julian May
Anne McCaffrey
Elizabeth Moon
Andre Norton
KJ Parker
JK Rowling
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Mary Shelley
Sheri S. Tepper
Lisa Tuttle
Michelle West
Liz Williams
Connie Willis
Janny Wurts
Jane Yolen
Margaret Atwood
Kage Baker
Alex Bell
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Poppy Z. Brite
Lois McMaster Bujold
Octavia Butler
Pat Cadigan
Jaqueline Carey
Kristin Cashore
Trudie Canavan
CJ Cherryh
Storm Constantine
Leigh Eddings
Kate Elliott
Jaine Fenn
Maggie Furey
Diana Gabaldon
Mary Gentle
Barbara Hambly
Elizabeth Hand
Robin Hobb
Diana Wynne Jones
JV Jones
Nancy Kress
Ursula K. LeGuin
Doris Lessing
Katherine Kerr
Mercedes Lackey
Gail Z. Martin
Julian May
Anne McCaffrey
Elizabeth Moon
Andre Norton
KJ Parker
JK Rowling
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Mary Shelley
Sheri S. Tepper
Lisa Tuttle
Michelle West
Liz Williams
Connie Willis
Janny Wurts
Jane Yolen
and you know, I consider myself a reasonably well read individual (for the genre, at least), and there were at least 10 of those I haven't read...
You are likely overstating some of their well-knownity.
"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world" - Calvin.
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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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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