I am exactly that lazy

[james_davis_nicoll]

When someone talks about the wave of female authors in the 1970s, whose names should come up? Off the top of my head, there's Octavia Butler, Pat Cadigan, Suzy McKee Charnas, C. J. Cherryh, Jo Clayton, Phyllis Eisenstein, Mary Gentle, Gwyneth Jones, Elizabeth A. Lynn, Vonda McIntyre, Patricia A. McKillip, Pat Murphy, Marta Randall, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Pamela Sargent, Joan Slonczewski, Sydney J. Van Scyoc, Lisa Tuttle, Joan Vinge, Cherry Wilder and Connie Willis. Who am I forgetting?

[Here's a What that I forgot: I mean female fantasy and science fiction authors]

The list so far, including the ones I missed but minus the ones I disagree should be listed and the ones I listed by mistake:

Lynn Abbey, Eleanor Arnason, Octavia Butler, Moyra Caldecott, Jaygee Carr, Joy Chant, Suzy McKee Charnas, C. J. Cherryh, Jo Clayton, Candas Jane Dorsey, Diane Duane, Phyllis Eisenstein, Cynthia Felice, Sheila Finch, Sally Gearhart, Mary Gentle, Dian Girard, Eileen Gunn, Monica Hughes, Diana Wynne Jones, Gwyneth Jones, Leigh Kennedy, Lee Killough, Nancy Kress, Katherine Kurtz, Tanith Lee, Megan Lindholm, Elizabeth A. Lynn, Phillipa Maddern, Ardath Mayhar, Vonda McIntyre, Patricia A. McKillip, Janet Morris, Pat Murphy, Sam Nicholson (AKA Shirley Nikolaisen), Rachel Pollack, Marta Randall, Anne Rice, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Pamela Sargent, Sydney J. Van Scyoc, Susan Shwartz, Nancy Springer, Lisa Tuttle, Joan Vinge, Élisabeth Vonarburg, Cherry Wilder, and Connie Willis.

Comments

[bluetyson.livejournal.com]

As in first appeared then (Kress) as opposed to published lots then (Le Guin)?

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

First appeared. Was Kress around in the 1970s? Huh.

[bluetyson.livejournal.com]

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro.

[(Anonymous)]

James Tiptree Jr?

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

If I recall correctly, she sold at least one story in the mid-1940s.

[lauriemann.livejournal.com]

Jaygee Carr

[bluetyson.livejournal.com]

Lee Killough too perhaps.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Crap, Lee Killough was one of the ones I first thought of!

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Dian Girard.

Oh, what's her name, the Analog writer who wrote under a male name about how annoying slutty make-up wearing feminists are. Sam Nicholson!

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

AKA Shirley Nikolaisen, I think.

[carbonel]

Zenna Henderson?

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

She goes back to the early 1950s.

[bluetyson.livejournal.com]

Phillipa Maddern.

[tool-of-satan.livejournal.com]

Diana Wynne Jones

[bluetyson.livejournal.com]

Fantasy too?

Anne Rice.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Augh! And she actually got TV ads back then, too. I remember how odd that was.

[bluetyson.livejournal.com]

Ardath Mayhar.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

I wonder how many of these people got their first novel published by DAW?

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

Lynn Abbey (1979), Eleanor Arnason (1973), Jayge Carr (1976), Candas Jane Dorsey (1977), Diane Duane (1979), Suzette haden Elgin (1969), Cynthia Felice (1977), Sheila Finch (1974), Eileen Gunn (1978), Monica Hughes (1975), Diana Wynne Jones (1970), Katherine Kurtz (1970), Tanith Lee (1971), Megan Lindholm (1979), Ardath Mayhar (1973), Janet Morris (1977), Rachel Pollack (1971), Susan Shwartz (1979), Nancy Springer (1977), Élisabeth Vonarburg (1978).

Cadigan and Slonczewski are 1980.
Someone mentioned Yarbro, who is 1969

Debut SF

[bluetyson.livejournal.com]

Hey, smart person, not dredging memory! :)

Did just think of Lynn Abbey before you posted that though. :)

[joenotcharles.livejournal.com]

Anne McCaffrey?

[bluetyson.livejournal.com]

The Ship Who Sang is really early sixties, so fifties is possible, I guess.

[bluetyson.livejournal.com]

Mary Stewart.

:)

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

1950s.

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Diane Duane

[bluetyson.livejournal.com]

Diana Paxson.

[badgerbag.livejournal.com]

Doris Piserchia

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

First story in 1966.

[badgerbag.livejournal.com]

Sally Gearhart, Moyra Caldecott, Cynthia Felice. Diana Paxson. I was about to say Gottlieb but she started publishing in the 60s

[antikythera.livejournal.com]

Suzette Haden Elgin's first novel was published in 1970.

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

Her first story was in May, 1969.

[pigeonhed.livejournal.com]

Leigh Kennedy with 'Salamander' in Analog in 77 and subsequently probably the least Analog-esque writer imaginable whilst staying within genre.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Did Joanna Russ debut in the 70s? Her most well-known novella certainly debuted then.

[morgan-dhu.livejournal.com]

No, her first short story was published in 1959, her first novel, Picnic on Paradise, in 1968.

[morgan-dhu.livejournal.com]

Joan Vinge
Joy Chant

[womzilla.livejournal.com]

M. J. Engh's fiction career is mostly the 1976 novel Arslan. She did have two short stories in the 1960s, under a pseudonym. That novel is the primary reason that she is this year's SFWA Author Emerita.