Comments on: The Greatest Female Science Fiction Writers of All Time. 06/2012/the-greatest-female-science-fiction-writers-of-all-time/ A Lawyer's Thoughts on Authors, Self-Publishing and Traditional Publishing Mon, 14 Jul 2014 03:06:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.1 By: Laurie 06/2012/the-greatest-female-science-fiction-writers-of-all-time/#comment-40507 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 16:46:52 +0000 ?p=20995#comment-40507 And I agree about Bujold as well – more Hugos than Heinlein.

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By: Laurie 06/2012/the-greatest-female-science-fiction-writers-of-all-time/#comment-40506 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 16:46:16 +0000 ?p=20995#comment-40506 Yes, I was thinking the same thing!

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By: pholy 06/2012/the-greatest-female-science-fiction-writers-of-all-time/#comment-40404 Sun, 01 Jul 2012 16:11:58 +0000 ?p=20995#comment-40404 Oh DARN. More books to read. Bookmarked.

Uhm, thanks…

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By: Sharon 06/2012/the-greatest-female-science-fiction-writers-of-all-time/#comment-40395 Sun, 01 Jul 2012 14:10:56 +0000 ?p=20995#comment-40395 *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.

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By: Felix Torres 06/2012/the-greatest-female-science-fiction-writers-of-all-time/#comment-40392 Sun, 01 Jul 2012 11:09:36 +0000 ?p=20995#comment-40392 Noted and concurred.
The ripples of her creation go well beyond literature.

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By: Sylvia Volk 06/2012/the-greatest-female-science-fiction-writers-of-all-time/#comment-40379 Sun, 01 Jul 2012 04:35:29 +0000 ?p=20995#comment-40379 Any list that doesn’t include Norton, Rowling and Cherryh is just sad.

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By: Supinelu 06/2012/the-greatest-female-science-fiction-writers-of-all-time/#comment-40376 Sun, 01 Jul 2012 03:04:53 +0000 ?p=20995#comment-40376 Because Rowling isn’t that good?

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

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By: K. W. Jeter 06/2012/the-greatest-female-science-fiction-writers-of-all-time/#comment-40374 Sun, 01 Jul 2012 02:17:40 +0000 ?p=20995#comment-40374 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?

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By: Felix Torres 06/2012/the-greatest-female-science-fiction-writers-of-all-time/#comment-40363 Sat, 30 Jun 2012 23:36:05 +0000 ?p=20995#comment-40363 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

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By: Maureen 06/2012/the-greatest-female-science-fiction-writers-of-all-time/#comment-40359 Sat, 30 Jun 2012 23:18:35 +0000 ?p=20995#comment-40359 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.”

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