#womeninsf

[la_marquise]

Last Friday, I had a mild hissy fit on twitter. I'd seen one too many tweets about Exciting! New! Books! by! Men!. I'd read one too many reviews in which a male writer was praised for something that a woman had done in an earlier, ignored book, or that a woman writer had been upbraided for. I'd seen one too many reports about girl cooties.
I started a hash tag -- women in sf -- and asked for names and recommendations. I hoped for some responses from friends or friends of friends. What I got... It ran all weekend and involved people from all over. It was fabulous. I've archived the tweets on Storify: you can find them here: http://storify.com/KariSperring/women-in-sf

And here, kindly compiled by the fabulous gillpolack are the

AJ Fitzwater
Alice Sheldon/James Tiptree
Aliette de Bodard
Alison Littlewood
Aliya Whiteley
Amal El-Mohtar
Andre Norton
Andrea Hairston
Angela Carter
Anne Bishop
Anne Gay
Anne McCaffrey
Brenda Cooper
C.J. Cherryh
C.L.Moore
C.L. Rossman
C.S. Friedman
Caitlín R. Kiernan
Carol Berg
Carol Emshwiller
Carolyn Ives Gilman
Carrie Vaughn
Catharine Asaro
Catherine Jinks
Catherine Lundoff
Catherynne Valente
Cathrine Lundoff
CE Murphy
Ceila Friedman
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Cherith Baldry
Claire Corbett
Claire Light
Connie Willis
CS Friedman
Dawn Cook/Kim Harrison
Dawn Lloyd
Deborah J Ross
Deirdre Murphy
Diana Wynne Jones
Donna McMahon
Doris Lessing
Dru Pagliasotti
Eileen Gunn
Ekaterina Sedia
Eleanor Arnason
Elizabeth Bear
Elizabeth Moon
Elizabeth Vonarburg
Emma Bull
Erika Tracy
Frewin Jones
Gail Carriger
Gill Alderman
Gwyneth Jones (Ann Halam)
Helen Oyeyemi
Hiromi Goto
Holly Black
Ilona Andrews
J Damask
Jaine Fenn
Jan Mark
Jane Donawerth
Jane Loudon Webb
Jane Rogers
Jayge Carr
Jaymee Goh
Jennifer Fallon
Jennifer Marie Brissett
Jennifer Matarese
Jennifer Pelland
Jessica E. Keiser
Jo Clayton
Jo Walton
Joan D. Vinge
Joan Slonczewski
Joanna Russ
Josephine Saxton
Judith Merrill
Judith Tarr
Julian May
Julie Bertagna
Julie E. Czerneda
JulietEMcKenna
Justina Robson
Kaaron Warren
Kage Baker
Karen Joy Fowler
Karen Miller
Karen Traviss
Kari Sperring
Karin Low
Kassandra Kelly
Kate Elliott (Alis Rasmussen)
Kate Forsyth
Kate Wilhelm
Katharine E Kimbriel
Katharine Kerr
Kathleen Ann Goonan
Kathryn Eliska Kimbriel
Kay Kenyon
Kelley Armstrong
Kelley Eskridge
Kelly Jennings
Kierstyn Jones
Kij Johnson
Kim Harrison
Kim Lakin Smith
Kim Westwood
Kit Reed
K.J. Bishop
L. Timmel Duchamp
L.A. Banks
Larissa Lai
Laura J. Mixon
Lauren Beukes
Laurie J Marks
Leigh Brackett
Leigh Kennedy
Libba Bray
Linda Nagata
Lisa Yaszek
Lisanne Norman
Liz Williams
Lois McMaster Bujold
Lois Gresh
Louise Lawrence
Louise Marley
Lucy Sussex
Lyda Morehouse
Madeleine L'Engle
Malorie Blackman
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Cavendish
Margaret Weis
Marge Piercy
Margo Lanagan
Marianne de Pierres
Marie Jakober
Marion Arnott
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Marta Randall
Martha Wells
Mary Doria Russell
Mary Gentle
Mary Rosenblum
Mary Shelley.
Maureen McHugh
Maxine McArthur
Maya Bohnhoff
Meg Mundell
Meg Rosoff
Melanie Rees
Melissa Mead
Melissa Scott
Mercedes Lackey
Michelle Marquadt
Michelle Sagara West
Misha
M.M. Buckner
Molly Gloss
N. K. Jemisin
Nalo Hopkinson
Nancy Farmer
Nancy Fulda
Nancy Jane Moore
Nancy Kress
Naomi Mitchison
Nicola Griffith
Nina Allen
Nisi Shawl
Nnedi Okorafor
Octavia Butler.
Pamela Sargent
Pat Cadigan
Pat Murphy
Patricia Anthony
Patricia Bowne
Pauline Gedge
Phyllis Gotlieb
Phyllis Irene Radford
R A McAvoy
Rachel Caine
Rachel Pollack
Rachel Swirsky
Regina de Búrca
Richelle Mead
R.J. Astruc
Robin Hobb (Megan Lindholm)
Robin McKinley
Rose Lemberg
Ruth Nestvold
S. L. Viehl
Samantha Sotto
Sandra Odell
Sara Creasy
Sara Hosey
Sarah Ann Watts
Sarah Hall
Sarah Zettel
Seanan McGuire/Mira Grant
Sharon Fisher
Sharon Shinn
Sheri S. Tepper
Shweta Narayan
Sisters of Battle. warhammer40k.wikia.com/wik...
Sophia McDougall
Sue Thomas
Sue Lange
Sunny Moraine
Susan Palwick
Suzanne Clarke
Suzanne Collins
Suzette Haden Elgin
Suzy McKee Charnas
Sylvia Engdahl
Tamora Pierce
Tanith Lee
Tanya Huff
Therese Arkenberg
Trish Sullivan
Trudi Canavan
Ursula K. LeGuin
Vandana Singh
Vonda N McIntyre
Wendy Palmer
Wilhelmina Baird
Yoon Ha Lee
Yvonne Rousseau
Zenna Henderson
<b>Additional Names</b>
Alison Sinclair (thanks to <lj user=">)
Janet Kagan
Ann Crispin (both via jimhines)
Laura Anne Gilman (via dancinghorse)
Diane Duane
Barbara Hambly (these 2 via marina_bonomi)
M. J Engh
Amy Thomson
Rosemary Kirstein (these 3 via rysmiel)
Monica Hughes (via blufire)
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Sharon Lee (both via suricattus)
Shannon Page
Kristine Smith
R M Meluch (these 2 from puddleshark)
Marjorie Liu (from sillylillybird)
Alison Goodman
Barbara Clegg
Cecilia Dart-Thornton
Cherie Priest
Chris Moriarty
Elizabeth Anne Scarborough
Jacqueline Rayner
Kate Orman
Katherine MacLean
Lloyd Rose
Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Rebecca Levene
Rona Munro
Steph Swainston
Una McCormack
Wilmar Shiras (these 16 from nwhyte)
Alex Bell (added by me)
Elizabeth Hand (via bugshaw)
Ann Maxwell (from anna_wing and zaan)
Doris Piserchia (from vaughan_stanger)
Marjorie Bradley Kellogg (via zaan).
Rob Thurman
Patricia McKillip
Catherine Webb
Adrienne Martine-Barnes (these four from anna_wing)
Greer Gilman
Naomi Novik (these 2 via bohemiancoast)
Kathryn Burdekin (from dorispossum)
Alma Alexander
Sandra McDonald (from anef)
Karin Lowachee
Sarah Hoyt
Michaela Roessner
Rosemary Edgehill (Eluki Bes Shahar) (these 4 via mectech)
Heather Gladney (from joecrow)
Gaelyn Gordon (from selidor)

There are so many great writers on this list, and from many different places -- not just the UK and the USA, but Singapore and India and Japan and New Zealand and South Africa and Australia. More names are welcome. These women are writing our futures. They deserve respect. They deserve space, in reviews and blogs, on shelves and award lists. There are more women out there, writing fine sf, in many languages. Let me know who's missing, who you love, who you want to read, who you feel deserves wider recognition.
And, to all you women writers of sf: keep writing!