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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
There were always women writing sci-fi and some very good stuff at that. Elizabeth Moon comes to mind as one I read when I was young. David Webber was writing the Honor Harrington series with a clever female lead since way back when. Sure, there are dominant male names, but the type of fiction one prefers has always been hard to find. I even read sci/fi romance when I was growing up--it was out there. It just wasn't as common as the Harlequin standards. With the internet, it's easier to find the kind of books you like.
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Well before that you had such writers and Andre Norton, Anne McCaffry, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Katherine Kurtz and Leigh Brackett, just to name a few and cover the 50's, 60's and 70's. SF&F has always had a strong group of women writers.