Thread: Is SF dying?
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Old 01-31-2015, 02:32 PM   #87
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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks View Post
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.
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.
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