Women in SF Meme.

[jsbowden]

The Rules of the Game Are:
Bold the women by whom you own books
Italicize those by whom you’ve read something of (short stories count).
*Star those you don’t recognize
Unmarked are those whose work you have not read


Joan Aiken*
Eleanor Arnason*
Catherine Asaro*
Ellen Asher*
Margaret Atwood (I'll read The Handmaid's Tale at some point)
Camille Bacon-Smith*
Kage Baker
Elizabeth Bear
Eluki bes shahar*
Anne Bishop*
K. J. Bishop*
Leigh Brackett*
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Lois McMaster Bujold
Emma Bull
Octavia E. Butler
Pat Cadigan
Rachel Caine*
Jayge Carr*
Angela Carter*
Jeanne Cavelos*
Karen Chance*
Joy Chant*
Suzy McKee Charnas*
C. J. Cherryh
Susanna Clark*
Storm Constantine*
Louise Cooper*
Susan Cooper (someday, I will read The Dark is Rising...)
Joan Cox*
Kathyrn Cramer*
Ellen Datlow*
Debra Doyle
Tanarive Due*
Rosemary Edghill*
Kate Elliott*
Carol Emshwiller*
Jane S. Fancher*
Sheila Finch*
Karen Joy Fowler*
Esther Friesner*
Mary Gentle*
Laura Anne Gilman*
Lisa Goldstein*
Kathleen Ann Goonan*
Theodora Goss*
Nicola Griffith*
Eileen Gunn*
Barbara Hambly*
Elizabeth Hand*
Charlaine Harris
Teresa Nielsen Hayden (I thought she only edited, never seen a book on the shelf with her name on it, though she writes plenty on Making Light)
Zenna Henderson*
Nina Kiriki Hoffman*
Nancy Holder*
Nalo Hopkinson*
Tanya Huff*
Kij Johnson*
Diana Wynne Jones
Gwyneth Jones*
Leigh Kennedy*
Caitlin Kiernan*
Rosemary Kirstein*
Ellen Klages*
Mary Robinette Kowal (She's a regular over on the AMC SciFi blog)
Nancy Kress
Katherine Kurtz
Ellen Kushner*
Madeline L’Engle
Margo Lanagan*
Deborah Layne*
Sharon Lee*
Tanith Lee*
Ursula Le Guin (Shouldn't there be a 'K' in there?)
Anna Leonard*
Kelly Link*
Jane Linskold*
Elizabeth A. Lynn*
Katherine MacLean*
Ardath Mayhar*
Anne McCaffrey
Shawna McCarthy*
Maureen McHugh*
Vonda N. McIntyre*
Patricia A. McKillip
R. M. Meluch*
Farah Mendlesohn*
Judith Merril*
Stephenie Meyer (I think there may have been a copy of Twilight in the house at some point, but we didn't buy it and I've never read it)
Barbara Michaels*
Laura Mixon*
Judith Moffett*
Mary Anne Mohanraj (She's written guest entries on Scalzi's site)
Elizabeth Moon
C. L. Moore*
Cheryl Morgan*
C. E. Murphy*
Pat Murphy*
Edith Nesbit*
Andre Norton*
Naomi Novik*
Rebecca Ore (She used to be a denizen of The Monastery back when Usenet still lived)
Rachel Pollack*
Cherie Priest (I read her blog)
Marta Randall*
Kit Reed*
Laura Resnick*
Anne Rice
M. Rickert*
Justina Robson*
Michaela Roessner*
J. K. Rowling
Kristine Kathryn Rusch*
Joanna Russ*
Mary Doria Russell*
Jessica Amanda Salmonson*
Pamela Sargent*
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough*
Melissa Scott*
Ekaterina Sedia*
Nisi Shawl*
Delia Sherman*
Sharon Shinn*
Kristine Smith*
Sherwood Smith*
Wen Spencer*
Nancy Springer*
Margaret St. Clair*
Caroline Stevermer
Mary Stewart*
Judith Tarr*
Sheri S. Tepper*
Amy Thomson*
James Tiptree, Jr.
Mary Turzillo*
Lisa Tuttle*
Catherynne M. Valente*
Ann VanderMeer*
S. L. Viehl*
Joan D. Vinge
Evangeline Walton*
Jo Walton
Martha Wells*
Kate Wilhelm*
Sheila Williams*
Connie Willis
Terri Windling*
Patricia C. Wrede
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro*
Jane Yolen*


And there you have it. There are some names I sort of recognize from browsing the shelves at B&N and Borders, but not so much I could have pulled them from memory, so I didn't count them.