Sandra McDonald started this meme on her blog (I think), and I picked it up from Mary Robinette Cowall’s blog. Sandra and Diane Comet has put together a periodic table of women writers in science fiction:
My favorite part is the Connie Willis element. If you don’t get it, read “And even the Queen.”
Here’s the meme part.
Bold the women by whom you own books
Italicize those by whom you’ve read something of (short stories count)
*Star those you don’t recognize
- Andre Norton
- C. L. Moore
- Evangeline Walton*
- Leigh Brackett
- Judith Merril
- Joanna Russ
- Margaret St. Clair*
- Katherine MacLean*
- Carol Emshwiller
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Zenna Henderson*
- Madeline L’Engle
- Angela Carter*
- Ursula LeGuin
- Anne McCaffrey
- Diana Wynne Jones*
- Kit Reed
- James Tiptree, Jr.
- Rachel Pollack*
- Jane Yolen
- Marta Randall
- Eleanor Arnason
- Ellen Asher
- Patricia A. McKillip
- Suzy McKee Charnas
- Lisa Tuttle*
- Nina Kiriki Hoffman
- Tanith Lee
- Pamela Sargent
- Jayge Carr*
- Vonda McIntyre
- Octavia E. Butler
- Kate Wilhelm
- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
- Sheila Finch
- Mary Gentle*
- Jessica Amanda Salmonson*
- C. J. Cherryh
- Joan D. Vinge
- Teresa Nielsen Hayden
- Ellen Kushner
- Ellen Datlow
- Nancy Kress
- Pat Murphy
- Lisa Goldstein*
- Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
- Mary Turzillo*
- Connie Willis
- Barbara Hambly
- Nancy Holder
- Sheri S. Tepper
- Melissa Scott
- Margaret Atwood
- Lois McMaster Bujold
- Jeanne Cavelos
- Karen Joy Fowler
- Leigh Kennedy*
- Judith Moffett
- Rebecca Ore
- Emma Bull
- Pat Cadigan
- Kathyrn Cramer*
- Laura Mixon
- Eileen Gunn
- Elizabeth Hand
- Kij Johnson
- Delia Sherman
- Elizabeth Moon
- Michaela Roessner
- Terri Windling
- Sharon Lee
- Sherwood Smith*
- Katherine Kurtz
- Margo Lanagan*
- Laura Resnick*
- Kristine Kathryn Rusch
- Sheila Williams
- Farah Mendlesohn*
- Gwyneth Jones
- Ardath Mayhar*
- Esther Friesner
- Debra Doyle*
- Nicola Griffith
- Amy Thomson*
- Martha Wells
- Catherine Asaro
- Kate Elliott
- Kathleen Ann Goonan
- Shawna McCarthy
- Caitlin Kiernan
- Maureen McHugh
- Cheryl Morgan*
- Nisi Shawl
- Mary Doria Russell
- Kage Baker
- Kelly Link
- Nancy Springer
- J. K. Rowling
- Nalo Hopkinson
- Ellen Klages*
- Tanarive Due*
- M. Rickert
- Theodora Goss
- Mary Anne Mohanraj
- S. L. Viehl*
- Jo Walton
- Kristine Smith
- Deborah Layne
- Cherie Priest
- Wen Spencer
- K. J. Bishop
- Catherynne M. Valente
- Elizabeth Bear
- Ekaterina Sedia
- Naomi Novik
- Mary Robinette Kowal
- Ann VanderMeer
How about you? Pass it on.
