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Originally Posted by HarryT
I thought I was pretty well up on "golden age" SF, but I can honestly say that the only people in this list that I've heard of are Moore and Brackett!
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Judith Merrill is another great (female) author from the 40's and 50's. Best remembered for her classic THAT ONLY A MOTHER. She co-wrote seversl novels with Cyril Kornbluth, a few more on her own. She did a fair amount of anthologies and one of her aborted projects from the early 60's inspired Harlan Ellison to do Dangerous Visions.
Henderson's stories of THE PEOPLE were adapted to a 1972 TV movie. William Shatner and Kim Darby. I saw it while at college. Managed to VCR it. Almost impossible to find. A lot of what is billed as young adult SF follows her footsteps.
Russ was part of the new wave/dangerous visions era who most famously wrote the strongly feminist THE FEMALE MAN in 1970. Took her five years to find a publisher. Its an... interesting read. Lots of followers, especially in the 80's...
Have you looked at this?
http://www.womeninsciencefiction.com/?p=31
Good anthology.