@orbitbooks Ursula Le Guin, definitely. Everything. I also really like the Vorkosigan Saga, though I don't know how SF that is. And: PERN.
— Ewa S-R (@EwaSR) October 17, 2013
#womeninSF – Your Favorites and Ours
Yesterday Ann Leckie and Rachel Bach appeared on RT Book Reviews to discuss some of the female writers of science fiction who inspired them, and their favorites. Afterwards, we asked you on Twitter to name some of YOUR favorites. Read on below for recommendations of some great science fiction books!
Leigh Brackett, People of the Talisman
Octavia Butler, the Xenogenesis Trilogy
CJ Cherryh, Foreigner
CJ Cherryh, Downbelow Station
Andre Norton, The Zero Stone
Andre Norton, Sargasso of Space
Eleanor Arnason, A Woman of the Iron People
Ursula K LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness
Vonda McIntyre, Dreamsnake
Madeline L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
Connie Willis, To Say Nothing of the Dog
L. Timmel Duchamp, The Marq’ssan Cycle
ANCILLARY JUSTICE (US | UK | AUS) is available now! Look for it online and in stores everywhere or read an excerpt here.
Ursula K. Le GuinLeft The Left Hand of Darkness & The Word for World is Forest
Anne McCaffrey, The Ship Who Sang & Crystal Singer
Anything by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Ann McCaffrey, the Prime series
Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of the Dark
FORTUNE’S PAWN (US | UK | AUS) releases next month! Pre-order your copy today or read an excerpt here.
@orbitbooks that said, the best I've read recently was totally Ancillary Justice.
— Ewa S-R (@EwaSR) October 17, 2013
@orbitbooks @SFandFantasyWSL dark horizons by @jennycolgan
— David Tennant (@ManOfFandoms) October 17, 2013
@orbitbooks Memory by Bujold, The Dispossessed by LeGuin, A Swiftly Tilting Planet by L'Engle, Pride of Chanur by Cherryh & more. #womeninsf
— ULTRA GOTHA (@ULTRAGOTHA) October 18, 2013
@orbitbooks I've recently fallen for Kameron Hurley's Bel Dame Apocrypha series.
— Deidre Dykes (@GoWordBird) October 18, 2013
@orbitbooks @MadelineAshby Grass by Sheri Tepper #womeninsf
— Rachel Crowl (@rachelcrowl) October 18, 2013
@orbitbooks Sea-Kings of Mars, Bold As Love, The Saga of Pliocene Exile
— Blue Tyson (@BlueTyson) October 18, 2013
@orbitbooks Wild Seed by Butler, The Dispossessed by Le Guin, The People: No Different Flesh by Henderson, Bone Dance by somebody….
— Will Shetterly (@WillShetterly) October 17, 2013
@orbitbooks anything by Gwyneth Jones, Marq'ssan Cycle bt L Timmel Duchamp, anything by Justina Robson, Susan R Matthews #womeninsf
— Ian Sales (@ian_sales) October 17, 2013
@orbitbooks Ursula K Le Guin 'The Lathe of Heaven': love the way the book constantly re-conceptualises itself & its genre.
— Tomcat (@Tomcat_Redroom) October 17, 2013
You mean favourite SF altogether? DUST, Elizabeth Bear. CARNIVAL, by same. Elizabeth Moon, TRADING IN DANGER. @orbitbooks #womeninsf
— Liz Bourke (@hawkwing_lb) October 17, 2013
Ursula K LeGuin, THE DISPOSSESSED. Tanya Huff, Valor series. Karen Healey, WHEN WE WAKE. @orbitbooks #womeninsf
— Liz Bourke (@hawkwing_lb) October 17, 2013
Susan R. Matthews, Jurisdiction series. Laura E Reeve, PEACEKEEPER. But mostly Elizabeth Bear. And now Ann Leckie. @orbitbooks #womeninSF
— Liz Bourke (@hawkwing_lb) October 17, 2013
@orbitbooks the queen of #womeninsf – Ursula K Le Guin
— R Spofforth (@make9spofforth) October 17, 2013
@orbitbooks currently loving Bujold's Vorkosigan books.
— jozebedee (@joz1812) October 17, 2013
@orbitbooks the Sparrow, the Dispossessed, Silver Screen, Vast, 2121.
— Jay Stephens (@JayStephens) October 17, 2013
@orbitbooks Theirs Not To Reason Why quadrilogy by Jean Johnson. Or The Gildar Rift by Sarah Cawkwell.
— Abhinav Jain (@abhinavjain87) October 17, 2013
.@orbitbooks THE FEMALE MAN – Russ; WILD SEED – Butler; FALLING FREE – Bujold; LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS – Le Guin; WHO FEARS DEATH – Okorafor
— John E.O. Stevens (@eruditeogre) October 17, 2013
@orbitbooks Too many to list. Bujold's Memory, Cherryh's Atevi books, Wrede & Stevermer's Sorcery and Cecelia, Bear's Range of Ghosts…
— Alec Austin (@AlecAustin) October 17, 2013
@orbitbooks I really enjoyed The Sparrow too… Has Tricia Sullivan been mentioned?
— WaterstonesLeedsSF&F (@SFandFantasyWSL) October 17, 2013
@orbitbooks For starters, vN by @MadelineAshby and of course Left Hand of Darkness by @ursulakleguin
— Anne Lyle (@AnneLyle) October 17, 2013
@orbitbooks The Nanotech Succession novels by Kathleen Ann Goonan; The Jenny Casey novels of Elizabeth Bear (also her one-shot CARNIVAL)
— Paul Weimer (@PrinceJvstin) October 17, 2013
@orbitbooks @sennydreadful Vatta's War saga by Elizabeth Moon immediately chimes to mind, also Karen Traviss' Halo franchise books.
— Kevin Gilmartin (@KevinGilmartin) October 17, 2013
@orbitbooks @EwaSR @pyroriffic The Gildar Rift by Sarah Cawkwell
— dickie bell (@dickie_bell) October 17, 2013
@orbitbooks Mary Doria Russell #womeninsf
— Juliet Mushens (@mushenska) October 17, 2013
@orbitbooks Margaret Atwood, Mary Shelley, Cherie Priest, Ayn Rand. (more fantasy than sci-fi – Steph Swainston) #womeninsf
— LibrariesNL (@LibrariesNL) October 17, 2013
@orbitbooks C.S. Friedman's SF is excellent, too. THIS ALIEN SHORE, IN CONQUEST BORN. Of course, there's Lois Bujold's VORKOSIGAN #womeninsf
— Rob DREADFORD (@RobHBedford) October 17, 2013
@orbitbooks XENOGENESIS by Octavia Butler and DAWN in particular is an astounding work, THE SPARROW by Mary Doria Russell #womeninsf
— Rob DREADFORD (@RobHBedford) October 17, 2013
@orbitbooks I reckon Among Others by Jo Walton will come to be regarded with great affection by genre fiction fans. I love it. #womeninsf
— WaterstonesLeedsSF&F (@SFandFantasyWSL) October 17, 2013
@orbitbooks PRIDE OF CHANUR, BORDERS OF INFINITY, CONFLICT OF HONORS, PRICE OF THE STARS, TO SAY NOTHING OF THE DOG #womeninsf
— Constellation Books (@ConstellationBo) October 17, 2013
@orbitbooks LHoD, Her Smoke Rose Up Forever, Ammonite, Mission Child, Dreamsnake, Kindred, Doomsday Book #womeninsf
— Sarah Pinsker (@SarahPinsker) October 17, 2013
@orbitbooks @EmApocalyptic's "split worlds" books, @Cadigan's "Synners", "Oryx & Crake by @MargaretAtwood, @SarahPinborough's books…
— Ade Couper (@bigade1665) October 17, 2013
@orbitbooks he she and it; marge piercy, silver metal lover; tanith lee , ride(catch the) lightning by catherine asaro…
— stacey agdern (@nystacey) October 17, 2013
@orbitbooks Ursula K. LeGuin, almost all of her work, But especially Left Hand of Darkness
— Ignacio Lector (@IgnacioLector) October 17, 2013
@orbitbooks my favourite sci-fi series is defo @kenyonsherrilyn #TheLeagueseries
— Amy Tyrer (@AmyTyrer) October 17, 2013
@orbitbooks anything by James Tiptree Jr. #womeninsf
— Kiyash Monsef (@kiyash) October 17, 2013
@gavreads @orbitbooks the Hidden Empire series by Jaine Fenn.
— Pippa Jay/Pip Green (@pippajaygreen) October 17, 2013
.@orbitbooks The answer would be the same without any qualifiers of gender or genre: nearly anything by Ursula K. Le Guin #womeninsf
— Dave Cramer (@dauwhe) October 17, 2013
@orbitbooks Oryx and Crake; Her Smoke Rose Up Forever; God's War; Silently & Very Fast; The End of Mr Y; The Female Man; The Handmaid's Tale
— Lauren Smith (@Violin_InA_Void) October 17, 2013
@orbitbooks Elizabeth Moon’s Trading in Danger made me cry at the end #womeninsf
— Gav Reads (@gavreads) October 17, 2013
Any others you would like to name? Go ahead and give them a shout-out in the comments!