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Nora *fucking* Jemisin has won, so far, *three* Hugo Best Novel awards, two of them back to back, one for each book in the Broken Earth trilogy.
Ann Leckie's creations are universally regarded as top-notch sf.
Elizabeth Moon, with hard sf in usually military settings.
Octavia Butler was basically a god.
Martha Wells is big these days cuz of the MurderBot books, but her backlist is fantastic.
Jemisin was a three-peat (2016, 2017, 2018)
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Jemisin was a three-peat (2016, 2017, 2018)
@vocumsineratio Hmmm, I thought there was a one-year gap after the first one.
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@vocumsineratio Hmmm, I thought there was a one-year gap after the first one.
@vocumsineratio Anyway, imagine winning the most prestigious award in sf/f three times. Imagine doing so as a Black woman.
She's a gamer, btw, and used to, not sure she still does, sometimes have a glass of wine and twitch her gameplay.
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You already mentioned Arkady Martine; but in case you are one of today's lucky 10,000: Rose/House is fucking fantastic.
I didn't see you mention Marie Brennan and Alyc Helms, who teamed up under the pen name "M. A. Carrick" to deliver the "Rook and Rose" trilogy (criminal underclass plus tarot plus Zorro save the world).
Also Victoria Goddard: Lays of the Hearth Fire
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@GeePawHill Oh, man, I just went into my Kobo reader, and I have even more...
Margaret Ball
Patricia Briggs
Rosemary Edghill
Diana Pharaoh Francis
Ellen Guon
Deborah Harkness
Lydia M Hawke
Robin Hobb
Tanya Huff
Naomi Novik
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@vocumsineratio Hmmm, I thought there was a one-year gap after the first one.
It's the future, so some skepticism is warranted, but the "official hugo website" offered up to me by $SEARCH_ENGINE gave me the same answer as wikipedia, so it must be true.
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@vocumsineratio Anyway, imagine winning the most prestigious award in sf/f three times. Imagine doing so as a Black woman.
She's a gamer, btw, and used to, not sure she still does, sometimes have a glass of wine and twitch her gameplay.
I'll put her channel on my list, but it looks like it's been quiet for a while now.
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@401matthall @wndxlori Good lord yes, Kurtz, Saint Camber.
@GeePawHill @401matthall @wndxlori Wow, what a wonderful list! So many names I don’t know!
A few more I could think of:
Mary Stewart
Sarah J. Maas
Jacqueline A. Carey
R.F. Kuang
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So glad you mentioned Naomi Novik, her Temeraire series was an AWESOME read for the whole family!@qole @GeePawHill the Scholomance series was fun, too
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@GeePawHill I love Julie Czerneda's sci-fi books. I think my favorites are in her Species Imperative trilogy: https://bookshop.org/p/books/survival-species-imperative-1-julie-e-czerneda/36f8e644f506c6e2
Editing to add: She used to have an account on mastodon, but I haven't seen her be active here in ages.
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Becky Chambers
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@GeePawHill Martha Wells, for the Murderbot series. Megan Lindholm (better known as Robin Hobb), for Alien Earth - it's her only science fiction work, but it blew me away.
Of course, the first science fiction writer was Margaret Cavendish. The Blazing World is a very interesting read, although it's early long-form prose, so not as easy to read as Frankenstein, which so many people think was the first.
I'd also put Anne McCaffrey there, especially for The Ship Who Sang and Freedom's Landing.
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@GeePawHill Thanks for the list (and thread)!
I would add JS Dewes: both her standalone “Rubicon” book and The Divide trilogy were enjoyable reads.
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And I must mention Linda Nagata who has numerous great books and series.
The Nanotech Succession
Inverted Frontier+1 for Nagata...
I've recently enjoyed:Ann Leckie
Sue Burke (Semiosis)
Annalee Newitz
S.B. Divya
Nnedi Okorafor
Benjanun Sridungkaew
Essa Hansen
Martha Wells
Kimberly Unger
Audrey Schulman ("Theory of Bastards" is a fucking underrated piece of work)
Cath Valente
Charlie Jane Anders
Emily St John Mandel... -
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@GeePawHill Martha Wells, known for her scifi Murderbot series but has also published a number of fantasy books too. I recommend starting with the Witch King.
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@GeePawHill oh boy, where to start…
Diane Duane
Jo Clayton
Carole Nelson Douglas
Ru Emerson
Barbara Hambly
Katharine Kerr
Katherine Kurtz
Mercedes Lackey
Anne McCaffrey
Robin McKinley
Patricia McKillop
Diana Paxson
Melanie Rawn
Jennifer Roberson
Midori Snyder
Sherri S Tepper
Deborah Turner Harris
Rebecca Yarros
@wndxlori @GeePawHill those bookshelves are beautiful. Very jealous
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@GeePawHill This is a great list of women authors and a lot more in the replies! I’ve read many of their books, but see a few unfamiliar names. I’m here to add two that I didn’t see yet, then I’m bookmarking this thread to refer back to. Thank you for starting this!
Additional women sf/f authors: Kage Baker, Veronica Henry
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I've read a lot of the authors you mention.
Anne McCaffrey introduced me to "good" dragons, and it took me decades to get over the awe of her and write dragon tales of my own.
I love Valdemar as a setting, and Black Gryphon is a masterpiece. (The other gryphon books less so.)
But can we look at contemporary authors, too?
I love Lindsay Buroker for her snark (and her dragons). She does great steampunk and urban fantasy.
Well... and I have a handful of books, too. Pretty please?
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Oh! I still have a little bit of time in #Internationalwomensday, don't I? Some of the *great* sf/f writers are/were women.
I just spoke in another thread of CJ Cherryh's extraordinary skill at exposition in fiction.
But there are plenty more.
Andre Norton lit my youth, and is probably the oldest exemplar I know of.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder was there, too, with delightful tween-level fantasy, especially _Black and Blue Magic_.
TIL Andre Norton's gender
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Ursula Leguin, who I think might have been the first female sf/f author I ever read whose name made it clear she was female, is, of course, *legendary*.
Arkady Martine has done some truly impressive work, esp. _A Desolation Called Peace_.
There are also writers who don't specialize in sf/f, but who have written there:
Margaret Atwood's _Oryx and Crake_ stands out.
As does Mary Doria Russell's *stunning* _Sparrow_ duology. (Be prepared to feel sad.)
@GeePawHill Sparrow. That one helped me come to terms with a religious upbringing, and to see the possibility of humanity in faith, but goodness does it bight.
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