Famous Women of SF Bingo

[roseembolism]

Nicked from James Nicoll and a couple other blogs.

SO, if you start with Diana Comet's Periodic Table of Women in Science Fiction (PDF) from Sandra McDonald's blog. And then you list them out in no particular order, so you have 110 women that are considered important in the SF field.

NOW, bold the ones you own books of, italicised, the women you’ve read something of (short stories count) and star* those you've never heard of

*( this is a star, folks.)


So as for me, I ended up with this, rather disappointing list.


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 (does reading the racefail diatribes in her blog posts count?)
* 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 suppose I could make excuses such as "look at all the male writers I've never heard of", or explain that it's partially because I've become so picky recently I'm not reading many authors at all. But really, the main thing I'm coming away with is that based on the minimal research I did, there's a number of writers in this list with novels I'd like to have a look at.

Also, I noticed there's a lot of authors who really need some help with their websites. Just sayin'.

Comments

[baronlaw.livejournal.com]

Hmm I don't sort my books by authors gender so I haven't a clue.

[roseembolism.livejournal.com]

Alphabetically should do. Though it would have been nice if this list was alphabetized.

Then again, there was one author on this list who I listed as read because I found out she was the writer on Doom Patrol after um, whassisname, the surreal guy took off. And looking at iher other stuff, it's no wonder that Doom Patrol was suddenly about sex and gender.

[baronlaw.livejournal.com]

I honestly have a very loose sorting style that has not survived impact with my random reading habits.

Someday.