gettingbetterfaster asked: Since you just posted such amazing rec lists (I’m saving for a new phone in which I can read so, hopefully, I will be able to start reading some of them soon!), I am wondering… Do you know of any women in science fiction? All I’ve ever read in sci-fi has been written by men, and now I’m just set in finding sci-fi written by women!

Sure thing! Here are a list of some female Sci-Fi authors, well-known, obscure, and everywhere in between:

• Eleanor Arnason, author of The Sword Smith, To the Resurrection Station, Daughter of the Bear King, A Woman of the Iron People, and Ring of Swords
• Catherine Asaro, author of the Saga of the Skolian Empire series
• Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid’s Tale and the MaddAddam trilogy 
• Kage Baker, author of The Company series
• Marjorie F. Baldwin, author of the Phoenician Series
• Elizabeth Bear, author of the Jenny Casey trilogy
• Susan J. Bigelow, author of Broken
• Leigh Brackett, author of The Starmen, The Sword of Rhiannon, The Big Jump, The Long Tomorrow, The Ark of Mars, and People of the Talisman
• Marion Zimmer Bradley, author of the Darkover series
• Lois McMaster Bujold, author of the Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free, and Borders of Infinity
• Octavia Butler, author of the Patternist series, Kindred, and the Lilith’s Brood trilogy
• Pat Cadigan, author of Synners
• Becca J. Campbell, author of Foreign Identity
• C.J. Cherryh, author of Cyteen and Explorer
• Autumn Christian, author of The Crooked God Machine
  
• Suzanne Collins, author of the Hunger Games trilogy
• Sara Creasy, author of Song of Scarabaeus and Children of Scarabaeus
• Julie E. Czerneda, author of In The Company of Others
• Sylvia Engdahl, author of The Far Side of Evil
• Sheila Finch, author of Birds and Triad
• Karen Joy Fowler, author of Sarah Canary
• C.S. Friedman, author of This Alien Shore
• Carolyn Ives Gilman, author of Isles of the Forsaken
• Molly Gloss, author of Wild Life
• Kathleen Goonan, author of Light Music
• Nicola Griffith, author of Slow River
• Nalo Hopkinson, author of Midnight Robber
• P.D. James, author of The Children of Men
• Valjeanne Jeffers, author of the Immortal series
• Gwyneth Jones, author of Spirit: The Princess of Bois Dormant
• Rosemary Kirstein, author of The Language of Power
• Nancy Kress, author of the Sleepless trilogy
• Madeleine L’Engle, author of A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time
• Sharon Lee, co-author of books within the Liaden universe
• Ursula K. LeGuin, author of The Left Hand of Darkness and
• Doris Lessing, author of the series Canopus in Argos: Archives
• Karin Lowachee, author of Warchild
• Katherine MacLean, author of numerous short stories included in collections like The Diploids and Other Flights of Fancy and The Trouble with You Earth People
• Lissette E. Manning, author of Stuck
• Anne McCaffrey, author of the Crystal Singer series
• Maureen F. McHugh, author of China Mountain Zhang
  
• Stephenie Meyer, author of The Host
• Judith Moffett, author of Pennterra
• Elizabeth Moon, author of The Speed of Dark
• Chris Moriarty, author of Spin State
• Susan Palwick, author of Shelter
• Cherie Priest, author of Boneshaker
  
• Michaela Roessner, author of Vanishing Point
• Justina Robson, author of Natural History
• Mary Rosenblum, author of Chimera and The Drylands
• Veronica Roth, author of the Divergent trilogy
• Kris Rusch, author of numerous books in the Star Trek universe and of the Retrieval Artist series
  
• Joanna Russ, author of The Female Man
• Pamela Sargent, author of the Seed trilogy
• Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein
• Linnea Sinclair, author of Hope’s Folly and Finders Keepers
• Margaret St. Clair (Idris Seabright, Wilton Hazzard), author of Sign of the Labrys
• Sheri S. Tepper, author of Grass
• James Tiptree Jr., author of Up the Walls of the World
• Karen Traviss, author of the Wess’Har series
• S.L. Viehl, author of the Stardoc series
• Kate Wilhelm, author of Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang and Juniper Time
• Connie Willis, author of Blackout

Thank you for your question!

Can you think of a female Sci-Fi author who is not listed here?