Comments on: The Greatest Female Science Fiction Writers of All Time.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 16:46:52 +0000

And I agree about Bujold as well – more Hugos than Heinlein.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 16:46:16 +0000

Yes, I was thinking the same thing!

By: pholy

pholy — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 16:11:58 +0000

Oh DARN. More books to read. Bookmarked.

Uhm, thanks…

By: Sharon

Sharon — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 14:10:56 +0000

*sniffs* I certainly wouldn’t personally include Rowling on the list either – and I’d have preferred separate lists for YA and adult SFF. It’s horrid to mix the two, IMO. ‘greatest’ doesn’t necessarily equate with ‘mega bestseller’. And Susanna Clark? Really? I enjoyed the book, but I mean, it’s one book.

And the list is too America-centric for my tastes.

Doris Lessing? Well, then we have to put Margaret Atwood on there as well (even if she’d not want to be there).

All the women on this list:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/dec/08/top10s.science.fiction.women

should be on there.

I could go on, but I’ll just go with, it’s a poor top ten.

By: Felix Torres

Felix Torres — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 11:09:36 +0000

Noted and concurred.
The ripples of her creation go well beyond literature.

By: Sylvia Volk

Sylvia Volk — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 04:35:29 +0000

Any list that doesn’t include Norton, Rowling and Cherryh is just sad.

By: Supinelu

Supinelu — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 03:04:53 +0000

Because Rowling isn’t that good?

Paula Volsky
Catherynne Valente
and from what I’ve heard, Kate Wilhelm.

By: K. W. Jeter

K. W. Jeter — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 02:17:40 +0000

All right — if we change the definition of “greatest” from “my personal favorites” to a more reasonable “had the greatest influence on the genre,” then there’s one female author’s name who surprisingly hasn’t turned up in this discussion:

Mary Shelley.

Seriously, can you think of another female writer who with a single book had a greater formative impact on the sf genre?

By: Felix Torres

Felix Torres — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 23:36:05 +0000

The list refers to her favorites, fine, but seriously?
SF and *Fantasy* writers? Fine.
So where is Rowling?!!

There is little sense of history in that list.
Even granting Butler, LeGuin, and Bradley, who I’d never dispute, I can come up with an easy dozen just off the top of my head:

- J.K. Rowling
- Lois McMaster Bujold
- Andre Norton
- C.L. Moore
- Leigh Brackett
- C.J. Cherryh
- Judith Merril
- Joan Vinge
- Tanith Lee
- Tanya Huff
- Louise Cooper
- Sharon Green

By: Maureen

Maureen — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 23:18:35 +0000

Well, it does say that it’s their ten favorites in the small print. But in that case, they should have called it “Our Ten Favorite Female SF/F Writers.”