Women? Writing science fiction? Editing science fiction? Even *gasp* reading it? Don’t let the blurb writer of Sign of the Labrys hear about it… Sandra McDonald has put together a periodic table of 117 women in science fiction, available at her website as well as a youtube video. Below is the list of featured writers, authors and others. I’ve bolded the ones I own books of, italicised, the women I’ve read something of (short stories count) and starred those I never heard of. How many of the following do you know? And who do you miss? Myself, just looking at my own books, I don’t see Liz Williams, Patricia Wrede or Josephine Saxton.
- 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 Sargent
- 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
- 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 Kurz
- *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