jmtorres | Female authors

Female authors

If this became a meme, I would love it.

cimadness asked me for some female scifi/fantasy author recs. I gave him some here.

I will now list every female author on my shelves. Because they all rock.

Margaret J. Anderson
Janet Asimov
Natalie Babbitt
Lynne Reid Banks
Clare Bell
Margaret Wander Bonanno
Nancy Bond
Gillian Bradshaw
Rita Mae Brown
Emma Bull
Barbara Byfield
Moyra Caldecott
CJ Cherryh
Grace Chetwin
Susan Cooper
Ann Downer
Diane Duane
Sylvia Engdahl (you should check her out, Chris)
Esther Freisner
Pauline Gedge
Radclyffe Hall
Beth Hilgartner
Frances Mary Hendry
HM Hoover
Osa Johnson
Sally Patrick Johnson
Diana Wynne Jones
MM Kaye
Carol Kendall
Tanith Lee
Ursula K. Le Guin
Madeleine L'Engle
Anne Logston
Lois Lowry
Margaret Mahy
Anne Mason
Anne McCaffrey (oh, God. So wanky. And yet I still own a handful of her books.)
Vonda McIntyre
Patricia McKillip
Robin McKinley
Judith Moffett
LM Montgomery
Pat Murphy
Edith Nesbit
Tamora Pierce
Merideth Ann Pierce (here's another for you, Chris)
Elizabeth Pope
JK Rowling
Pamela Sargeant
Pamela F. Service
Mary Shelley
Josepha Sherman
Zilpha Keatly Snyder
Nancy Springer
Victoria Strauss
Joan D. Vinge
Alice Walker
Sharon Webb
Connie Willis
Patricia C. Wrede
Jane Yolen
Mary Frances Zambreno

Plus some stuff I don't have with me because it's at my dorm.

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Jacqueline Carey
Storm Constantine
Jennifer Roberson
Janny Wurts
Tanya Huff
Gayle Greeno
Mercedes Lackey (Yes...she writes TOTAL sues, but they're quick reads)

jcalanthe gave me some Storm Constantine; I have it at the dorm, I think...

*laugh* at Mercedes Lackey--I had a friend who lent me one of her books in eighth grade, and I gave it back the day before we graduated high school! I only kept it that long because I hadn't managed to finish it yet.

Tell me about the others? Favorite titles? Their styles?

Jacqueline Carey is currently my favorite author. She has one trilogy out. Kushiel's Dart, Kusie's Chosen and Kushiel's Avatar. Her books are very lyrical without the weighty descriptions of Tolkien or Books. She does excellent deep characters complete with flaws and sets them in a world with a really well laid out history Also...she writes some extreme if not detailed BDSM and includes homosexual relationships where whoring is actually a form a worship.

*babbles on* Okay, she's really good. *G*

Jennifer Roberson has two series that I know of. The Sword Singer series about a chauvanistic male sword for hire and a woman sword fighter from the north. He wants to bed her, she wants to castrate him...classic love hate. The world in this one is adequate, but the plot is pretty decent. Some lovely angst.
The second is the Cheysuli series. This is the ten books and follows the lineage of a family of shape changers as they try to bring about a prophecy. Good world set up, good charachers and an odd battle of good and evil where you sometimes doubt which side your reading.

Gayle Greeno I've read all of her Ghattie's Tail books starting with Finder-Seeker. About mind speaking cats that can see the truth and are used as judges with a human guide. Oddly neough, having read both series twice....I still couldn't tell you if I like her or not. She's a good story teller, decent plot, well developed characters, but something about them still doesn't sit right. I still rec them out though hoping someone will read them and I can finally discuss them. *is such a geek*

I've got four by Gayle Greeno... cut my teeth on three of them (the Ghatti's tale trilogy) when I was new to English and bought the fourth, the first of the sequel trilogy, years later, but never got around to reading it. My only Lackey (no pun) is The Black Swan.

Seven female authors... granted, some with considerable output, but is your collection that small, or is it completely skewed toward male authors?

actually, I have over 900 sci-fi books, but they are boxed up as I remodel my basement so I'm going by memory. Those are the ones that stand out in my head. Plus...I have several that were already listed.

I'd say I have about 33% female authors, although about 50% of my books are by female authors. I tend to be more loyal to them than the men.

I'm really curious to see what my ratio would be if I actually counted them all, but even doing this has proven to me that I can't guestimate it at *all.* I thought my collection was a lot more male-skewed than it was...

There is a documented tendency in the way people guess whereby women's presence in a group is perceived as much greater than it is once it exceeds mere tokenism.

And probably more male-skewed than I think it is now?

I don't know. Most humans, except some autistic people, I think, also have trouble making accurate estimations of quantity once the numbers exceed the few dozens, iirc.

Lois McMaster Bujold is badass too.

OOH! Yes. Forgot her. I love her characters.

So I have heard!

Marion Zimmer Bradley is good too, although her earlier stuff is a bit shaky.

*frowns* Do I own Mists of Avalon? *looks around*

Androgyne authors:

Raphael Carter
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Never mind.

(Kate Bornstein might possibly count, as I don't think she exclusively identifies as a woman, and has written fiction, the name of which escapes me right now. Oh! And Leslie Feinberg uses different pronouns in different contexts because neither are all *that* satisfactory).

Tiptree! TiptreeTiptreeTiptreeTiptreeTiptree!
Though mostly not the novels, and I see you rec'd her under Alice Sheldon (or Raccoona Sheldon) already.

And Joanna Russ, who just puts me away, for The Female Man, the Alyx stories, and Extra(ordinary)People [I'll send you a copy, if you want, when I get home; I have extras]

Angela Carter!

Hee, I'm getting dizzy thinking of them. Yay for the grandmothers.

I've got a few hundred sf/f/u books by women authors at home; before I discovered slash, feminist sf was my obsession.

[I'll send you a copy, if you want, when I get home; I have extras]

oooh. Books? *grins*

I'll be home in a couple of weeks; poke me, because I'll be running around crazy and will forget, and I'll send you goodies.

ObPlug:

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Yes! Someone else out there who reads Emma Bull. Even her not-as-polished books are ten to the power of google times better than a lot of the shite I see on the shelves of B&N lately.

How about Teri Windling and Linda Evans?

It won't exactly be a meme, but putting together a list of my book recs was actually on my sched for today ;)

Hmmm...

::scurries off to see if she can scan book cover art well enough to make Emma Bull related icon::

*looks forward to your book recs*

A few I didn't see listed:

Terri Windling (The Wood Wife)
Angela Carter
Pamela Dean
Melanie Rawn (in the same class as Mercedes Lackey, really, but I enjoy her world more and think her a better writer)
Geraldine Harris (I would pimp Seven Citadels to more people except it's out of print)
Mary Stewart
Holly Black (Tithe really is excellent, especially if you like Emma Bull)
Elizabeth Hand
Elizabeth Bear
Jo Clayton
Kara Dalkey (Her retelling of The Nightingale is breathtaking, and also out-of-print, darn it)

I know there are more on my shelves, but I have to run to work now.

Thank you! I'll look for these.

*glomp* Yes! Patricia Wrede! I don't think anyone else I know even knows who she is. *mutters* *needs to organize her bookshelf so badly*

I think the Enchanted Forest Chronicles are pretty well-known.

I had assumed so, but no one seems to recognize it.

Dude, come on Y!M. *looks pitiful*

That's rather impressive. I pathetically don't even recognize some of those names.

I am willing to answer questions, though admittedly this will be harder now that I am at school, away from my books...

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