Because it's easier to meme than provide real content

[flemmings]

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

The grammar of this meme bugs me, but no matter. You can tell I'm an 80s fantasy reader, though I seem not to have read many of my contemporaries.


Andre Norton
C. L. Moore
Evangeline Walton
Leigh Brackett
Judith Merril
Joanna Russ
Margaret St. Clair*
Katherine MacLean*
Carol Emshwiller
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Zenna Henderson
Madeline L’Engle
Angela Carter
Ursula LeGuin
Anne McCaffrey
--you know, I think I never have? Go me.
Diana Wynne Jones
Kit Reed*
James Tiptree, Jr.
--though I had to google to see if I had
Rachel Pollack*
Jane Yolen
Marta Randall*
Eleanor Arnason*
Ellen Asher*
Patricia A. McKillip
Suzy McKee Charnas
Lisa Tuttle*
Nina Kiriki Hoffman*
Tanith Lee
Pamela Sargent*
Jayge Carr*
Vonda McIntyre
Octavia E. Butler
Kate Wilhelm
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Pamela Sargent*
Mary Gentle
--even if it was just browsing in a store
Jessica Amanda Salmonson
C. J. Cherryh
Joan D. Vinge
--recurrent problem. I may well have read some of hers but the 80s was a long time ago and all those names have a certain similarity
Teresa Nielsen Hayden
-- does her blog count?
Ellen Kushner
Ellen Datlow
-- but how does one read an editor?
Nancy Kress*
Pat Murphy*
Lisa Goldstein*
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Mary Turzillo*
Connie Willis
Barbara Hambly
Nancy Holder*
Sheri S. Tepper
Melissa Scott
Margaret Atwood
--but it wasn't fantasy
Lois McMaster Bujold
Jeanne Cavelos*
Karen Joy Fowler*
Leigh Kennedy*
Judith Moffett*
Rebecca Ore*
Emma Bull
Pat Cadigan*
Kathyrn Cramer*
Laura Mixon*
Eileen Gunn*
Elizabeth Hand*
Kij Johnson
Delia Sherman
Elizabeth Moon
Michaela Roessner*
Terri Windling
Sharon Lee*
Sherwood Smith
--does her lj count?
Katherine Kurtz
Margo Lanagan*
Laura Resnick*
Kristine Kathryn Rusch*
Sheila Williams*
Farah Mendlesohn*
Gwyneth Jones*
Ardath Mayhar
Esther Friesner*
Debra Doyle*
Nicola Griffith*
Amy Thomson*
Martha Wells
Catherine Asaro*
Kate Elliott
Kathleen Ann Goonan*
Shawna McCarthy*
Caitlin Kiernan*
Maureen McHugh*
Cheryl Morgan*
Nisi Shawl
Mary Doria Russell*
Kage Baker
Kelly Link*
Nancy Springer
J. K. Rowling
Nalo Hopkinson
Ellen Klages*
Tanarive Due
M. Rickert*
Theodora Goss
Mary Anne Mohanraj
--does her spoilerific list of gay SFF count?
S. L. Viehl*
Jo Walton
Kristine Smith*
Deborah Layne*
Cherie Priest
Wen Spencer*
K. J. Bishop*
Catherynne M. Valente
Elizabeth Bear
Ekaterina Sedia
Naomi Novik
Mary Robinette Kowal*
Ann VanderMeer*

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Because it's easier to meme than provide real content - ahahaha and I sometimes cannot muster up energy for even those. but but I have not even heard of more than two thirds of those I own

Andre Norton - One of her stories is in a SF/F anthology I own does it count?
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Madeline L’Engle
Ursula LeGuin
Anne McCaffrey
Tanith Lee
Connie Willis
Kij Johnson
Katherine Kurtz
Nancy Springer

have read

Diana Wynne Jones
Jane Yolen
Patricia A. McKillip
Mary Gentle
C. J. Cherryh
Ellen Kushner
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Barbara Hambly
Sheri S. Tepper
Margaret Atwood
Lois McMaster Bujold
Elizabeth Hand - does Star Wars fanfiction count? ^_^
Elizabeth Moon
Terri Windling
Kristine Kathryn Rusch*
Cherie Priest

I have never heard of the rest!! Oh dear. Never mind.