Oh!

[geepawhill@mastodon.social]

@wndxlori JFC, Lori, you're killin' me here.

There are like 4 writers there whose work I don't know, which leaves a very great number I failed to mention.

TYSM!

[ronjeffries@mastodon.social]

@GeePawHill
Did you mention ...
CL Moore
Nnedi Okorafor
James Tiptree Jr (Alice B (Raccoona) Sheldon)
Kage Baker

And so many more ...

[geepawhill@mastodon.social]

@RonJeffries Hah! Brilliant! I didn't even know James Tiptree Jr was a woman. I knew the others, and I simply did not list them cuz I was working from memory.

Excellent additions!

[wndxlori@ruby.social]

@GeePawHill Largely Fantasy, although quite a few of these swing both ways.

[geepawhill@mastodon.social]

@wndxlori Whatever. I *loved* Roberson, Kerr, Lackey. I spent *years* on Rawn.

[wndxlori@ruby.social]

@GeePawHill Ooo, I missed Judith Tarr

[geepawhill@mastodon.social]

@wndxlori See? It can happen to anyone.

[simmdan@hachyderm.io]

@GeePawHill Anne McCaffrey

[keithmann@mastodon.online]

@GeePawHill A few from my Goodreads list:

Yoko Ogawa
Alix Harrow
Olga Ravn
R.F Kuang
Kerstin Hall
Kelly Link
Katherine Arden
T. Kingfisher (Ursula Vernon)
Tlotlo Tsamaase
Fernanda Trías
Kaliane Bradley
Madeline Ashby
S.L. Huang
Emily Tesh
Emma Törzs
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

[wndxlori@ruby.social]

@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
Melissa Scott

[geepawhill@mastodon.social]

@wndxlori Oh! Several new names, and a fair number of old ones. I didn't realize Robin Hobb was a woman. Good lord, there's three different series from her that are simply amazing.

[wndxlori@ruby.social]

@GeePawHill She has a second pen name, too... Megan ... something.

[wndxlori@ruby.social]

@GeePawHill Ellen Guon has co-authored with Mercedes Lackey, and Margaret Ball with Anne McCaffrey. But they both released their own books, too. Lydia Hawke's Crone Wars is a great series for women of a certain age.

[401matthall@mastodon.xyz]

@wndxlori

OMG, I miss reading Katherine Kurtz _soooo_ much. The Saint Camber series was _sooo_ good.

I grew up on Anne McCaffrey's Dragon Riders of Pern along with her Ship Who Sang series. And now I can't remember if it was McCaffrey and Liz Moon who wrote Sassinak together or if it was Mercedes Lackey and Anne McCaffrey.

Giddy. Giddy with joy over here.

@GeePawHill

[geepawhill@mastodon.social]

@401matthall @wndxlori Good lord yes, Kurtz, Saint Camber.

[vocumsineratio@hachyderm.io]

@GeePawHill

Jemisin was a three-peat (2016, 2017, 2018)

[geepawhill@mastodon.social]

@vocumsineratio Hmmm, I thought there was a one-year gap after the first one.

[geepawhill@mastodon.social]

@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.

[vocumsineratio@hachyderm.io]

@GeePawHill

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

[qole@techhub.social]

@wndxlori @GeePawHill
So glad you mentioned Naomi Novik, her Temeraire series was an AWESOME read for the whole family!