Women in SF meme
Bold the women by whom you own books
Italicize those by whom you've read something (short stories count)
* Star those you don't recognize
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Italicize those by whom you've read something (short stories count)
* Star those you don't recognize
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Too populist or not literary enough, I suspect.
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My favorites off your list:
Andre Norton: Almost one of the first science-fiction authors I read: I think I started reading her Central Control / Free Traders universe stories when I was around 8-9 in the early 1970's. I didn't find out she was a woman until I was a teenager, sometime around 1980. I have a whole boxful of her books, and still don't have all of them -- her writing career spanned from the mid-1930's through her death in 2005 (and some of her series have been continued by collaborators)! I ran and reviewed "All Cats Are Gray" on Fantastic Worlds.
C. L. Moore: A truly great stylist, with some very memorable characters, especially Northwest Smith. Her career was sadly cut short when her husband and writing partner, Henry Kuttner, died in 1958 -- the heart to write went out of her, and then she married another man, who hated the idea of her writing weird tales. She lived until 1987, so we lost almost 30 more years of her potential output. I ran and reviewed "Song in a Minor Key ( ... )
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