what if I did an entire rec list on "how to know you're well-read in core SFF" and listed nothing but women just to watch the world burn
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Replying to @renay
Pretty much all my core SFF writers - the ones who introduced me to the genre - are women. DO IT.
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Replying to @fozmeadows
I've been making a list for an hour of women writers that made me keep reading SFF or I've been told to read. 55 unique women.
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Replying to @renay
My SFF core as a teenager: Sara Douglass, Anne McCaffrey, Kate Elliott, Katharine Kerr, Tamora Pierce, Robin Hobb.
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Replying to @sophienotemily @fozmeadows
Yes, she was my FIRST gateway into SF. ~memories~
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Replying to @renay @sophienotemily
- growing up, it legit never occurred to me that the entire genre *wasn't* female dominated, because in Aus, it WAS.
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Replying to @fozmeadows @sophienotemily
oh wow, I'm so jealous. I was in like, a lady SFF DESERT.
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Replying to @renay @sophienotemily
By Trudi's count, currently two thirds of Australian fantasy writers are women: http://www.trudicanavan.com/2013/11/australian-new-zealand-fantasy-writers/ …
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The post is a few years old, but the ratio can't have shifted too dramatically.
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I wouldn't have thought so!
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