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?

[bluetyson.livejournal.com]

Pretty sure a collection I read a while ago had a 70s story.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

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

[lauriemann.livejournal.com]

Jaygee Carr

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Wikipedia says your memory is better than mine.

[(Anonymous)]

That's a point - she was using the Alice Bradley name then... The first Tiptree story seems to be 1968, too, Sorry!

Peter

[bluetyson.livejournal.com]

Lee Killough too perhaps.

[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]

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

[carbonel]

Zenna Henderson?

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

She goes back to the early 1950s.

[bluetyson.livejournal.com]

Nah, 50s.

[bluetyson.livejournal.com]

Phillipa Maddern.

[tool-of-satan.livejournal.com]

Diana Wynne Jones

[bluetyson.livejournal.com]

Fantasy too?

Anne Rice.

[bluetyson.livejournal.com]

Ardath Mayhar.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

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

[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?

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

AKA Shirley Nikolaisen, I think.