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A Selected Book List of Feminist (or Proto-feminist) science fiction/Science Fiction by Women Writers  -- Kay Fowler

18th and 19th Century

Sarah Scott. A Description of Millenium Hall (1762).

Mary Shelley. Frankenstein. (1818).

Mary Shelley. The Last Man. (1826)

Jane (Webb) Loudon. The Mummy! A Tale of Twenty-Second Century London. (1827)

Mary Griffith. Utopia: Three Hundred Years Hence by an Author of Our Neighborhood (1836; 1950).

Annie Denton Cridge. Manís Rightís or How Would You Like It? (1870) (available on the web)

Mary Molesworth. The Cuckoo Clock (1877) Young Adult.

Mary E. Bradley Lane. Mizora: A Prophecy (1880-1881).

Agnes Bond Yourell. A Manless World. (1891).

1900-1929

Florence Ethel Young. War of the Sexes. (1905).

Angel Haynes Gillmore. Angel Island (1914; 1988)

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. Herland (1915)

Frances Stevens (real name: Gertrude Barrows Bennet): Citadel of Fear (1918; 1970)\

Rose Macaulay What Not: A Prophetic Comedy (1918)

Frances Stevens (real name: Gertrude Barrows Bennet): The Heads of Cerberus (1919; 1952)

Ella M. Scrymsour. The Perfect World: A Romance of Strange People and Strange Places (1922)

Cicely Hamilton (Cicely Mary Hamill ó also wrote as Scott Rae and Max Hamilton). Theodore Savage (aka Lest Ye Die) (1922) Clare Winger Harris (Mrs. F. C. Harris) Away From Here and Now (1947) (A collection of stories from the 20s and 30s). "The Miracle of the Lily" in Amazing Stories (1928)

Charlotte Haldane. Manís World (1926)

Thea Von Harbrou Metropolis (1926)

Leslie F. Stone. When the Sun Went Out (1929 in Hugo Gernsbackís Science Fiction series)

Leslie F. Stone. Out of the Void (1929; 1967).

Lilith Lorraine (real name: Mary Maude Dunn Wright) The Brain of the Planet (1929 in Hugo Gernsbackís Science Fiction series)

1931-1949

Burdekin, Katharine. The End of This Dayís Business. (1935; 1989).

Susan Ertz. Woman Alive (1936)

Burdekin, Katharine (writing as Murray Constantine). Swastika Night (1937)

Muriel Hine. The Island Forbidden to Man (1946)

Margaret St. Clair. "Rocket to Limbo" (1946) in Fantastic Adventure and Oona and Jik Tales 1947-9 in Startling Stories and TWS

1950-1959

Judith Merrill. Shadow on the Hearth (1950)

Henderson, Zenna. Ingathering: The Complete People Stories of Zenna Henderson. (1952-1975). 1995.

Evelyn E. Smith (aka Delphine C. Lyons) "Teatray in the Sky" Gal (1952)

Andre Norton. Star Manís Son: 2250 A. D. (AKA Daybreak: 2250 A.D.) (1952)

Leigh Brackett. The Long Tomorrow (1955)

Andre Norton. Star Gate. (1958).

Joan Hunter Holly. Encounter (1959).

1960-1969

Evelyn E. Smith (aka Delphine C. Lyons) The Perfect Planet (1962)

Naomi Mitchison. Memoirs of a Spacewoman. (1962)

Madeline LíEngle. A Wrinkle in Time (1962).

Andre Norton. Annals of the Witch World (1963-5)

Andre Norton. Ordeal in Otherwhere. (1964)

Bee Baldwin. Red Dust (1965) New Zealand writer.

Hortense Calisher. Journal from Ellipsia (1965)

Gertrude Friedberg (Tonkonogy) The Revolving Boy (1966)

Joanna Russ. Picnic on Paradise (1968).

Judith Merrill. Daughters of Earth (1968): includes 3 novellas: Project Nursemaid, Daughters of Earth, Homecalling.

Angela Carter. Heroes and Villains (1969).

Anne McCaffrey. The Ship Who Sang (1969)

LeGuin, Ursula. The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)

Miriam Allen DeFord. Xenogenesis. (Short Stories) (1969)

1970-1979

Dorothy Bryant. The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You (AKA The Comforter) (1971)

Thea Plym Alexander. 2150 A.D. (1971)]

Doris Lessing. Briefing for a Descent into Hell (1971)

Monique Wittig. Les Guerilleres. (1971)

James Tiptree Jr. Ten Thousand Light Years From Home (1973).

Charnas, Suzy Mckee. Walk to the End of the World (1974)

Doris Piserchia. Star Rider. (1974).

Joanna Russ. The Female Man (1975).

Evelyn E. Smith (aka Delphine C. Lyons) The Unpopular Planet (1975)

Mitchison, Naomi. Solution Three (1975)

Marta Randall. Meganís World. (1976) in The Crystal Ship: Three Original Novellas of Science Fiction, ed. Robert Silverberg, 1976.

Marge Piercy. Woman on the Edge of Time. (1976).

Joan Vinge. The Crystal Ship. (1976) in The Crystal Ship: Three Original Novellas of Science Fiction, ed. Robert Silverberg, 1976.

Kate Wilhelm. The Clewiston Test (1976)

Suzy McKee Charnas. Motherlines (1978)

Joanna Russ. The Two of Them (1978)

Vondra McIntyre. Dreamsnake (1978)

Esther Broner. A Weave of Women. (1978)

Sally Gearhart. The Wanderground. Stories of the Hill Women (1979)

Jayge Carr. Leviathanís Deep (1979)

Octavia Butler. Kindred (1979)

Doris Lessing. Re: Colonised Planet 5: Shikasta (1979). (FIRST NOVEL IN CANOPUS IN ARGOS: ARCHIVES)

Zoe Ann Fairbanks. Benefits (1979)

1980-1989

Octavia Butler. Wild Seed (1980)

Doris Lessing. The Sirian Experiment (1980) (THIRD NOVEL IN CANOPUS IN ARGOS: ARCHIVES)

Elizabeth Lynn. Northern Girl (1980) fantasy

Pamela Sargent Watchstar (1980)

Doris Lessing. The Marriage Between Zones Three, Four, and Five (1980) (SECOND NOVEL IN CANOPUS IN ARGOS: ARCHIVES)

Katherine Maclean. The Trouble with You Earth People (1980).

Joan Vinge. The Snow Queen (1980)

Josephine Saxton. The Travails of Jane Saint. (1980)

Marion Zimmer Bradley. The Ruins of Isis (1980)

Kate Wilhelm. Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang (1980)

Julian May. Too Many Colored Lands (1981).

Katherine MacLean. The Diploids and Other Flights of Fancy (1981)

Tanith Lee. The Silver Metal Lover (1982)

Sandi Hall The Godmother (1982)

Sandra Miesel Dreamrider (1982)

Anne McCaffrey. Crystal Singer Trilogy (1982, 85, 92)

Elisabeth Vonarburg. Silent City (originally pub. in French, trans. Jane Brierley)

Doris Lessing. The Making of the Representataive for Planet 8 (1983) (FOURTH NOVEL IN CANOPUS IN ARGOS: ARCHIVES)

Doris Lessing. The Sentimental Agents (1983) (FIFTH NOVEL IN CANOPUS IN ARGOS: ARCHIVES)

Mary Gentle Witchbreed (1983) Golden Witchbreed (1984)

Suzette Hardin Elgin. K Native Tongue (1984)

Rhoda Lerman. The Book of the Night (1984)

Jody Scott. I, Vampire (1984)

Josephine Saxton. The Power of Time (1985)

Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaidís Tale. (1985).

Jane Palmer. The Planet Dwellers. (1985)

James K. Tiptree Jr. Brightness Fall from the Air (1985)

Connie Willis. Fire Watch (1985)

Gerd Brantenberg. The Daughters of Egalia trans. Louis MacKay (1985)

Karen Joy Fowler. Artificial Things (1986)

James K. Tiptree, Jr. Starry Rift (1986)

Joan Slonczewski. A Door Into Ocean (1986)

Christine Brooke-Rose. Xorander. (1986)

Finch, Sheila. Triad (1986)

Pamela Sargent. The Shore of Women (1987)

Jaunita Coulson. Crisis on Cherion (1987)

Pat Cadigan Mindplayers (1987)

Gwyneth Jones. Divine Endurance (1987)

Octavia Butler. Dawn (1987)

Carol Emshwiller. Carmen Dog (1988)

Tepper, Sherri. The Gate to Womenís Country (1988)

C. J. Cherryh. Cyteen. (1988)

Leona Gom. The Y Chromosome (1989)

James K. Tiptree, Jr. Up the Walls of the World. (1989)

McIntyre, Vondra. Starfarers (1989)

B. J. Saterberg. The Outlander: Captivity (1989)

1990-1999

James Tiptree Jr. Her Smoke Rose Up Forever. (1990).

Misha. Red Spider, White Web. (1990)

Pat Murphy. Points of Departure (1990).

Karen Joy Fowler. Sarah Canary (1991)

Pat Cadigan. Synners (1990)

Rebecca Ore. The Illegal Birth of Billy the Kid (1991)

Carol Emshwiller. The Start of the End of It All (1991).

May Gentle. The Architecture of Desire (1991)

Judith Moffett. The Ragged World: A Novel of the Hefn on Earth (1991)

Marge Piercy. He, She, and It. (1991)

Sharon Shinn. Wrapt in Crystal (1991)

Gwyneth Jones. White Queen. (1991).

Jewelle Gomez. The Gilda Stories (1991)

Nicola Griffith. Ammonite (1992)

Connie Willis. Doomsday Book (1992)

Jane S. Fancher. Harmonies of the Net (1992)

Laura Mixon. Glass Houses (1992)

Elisabeth Vonarburg. In the Motherís Lands (originally pub. in French, trans. Jane Brierley)

Alice Nunn. Illicit Passage. 1992. Australian writer

Eleanor Arnason. Ring of Swords. (1993)

Mary Rosenblum. Chimera (1994)

Maureen McHugh. Half the Day is Night. (1994)

Kathleen Ann Goonan. Queen City Jazz. (1994)

Nancy Kress. Beggars in Spain (1994)

Elisabeth Vonarburg. Reluctant Voyagers. (1994) Translated from the French by Jane Brierley. (1995) Canadian writer

Linda Nagata. The Bohr Maker (1995)

Nancy Kress. Beggars and Choosers. (1995)

Nancy Springer. Larque on the Wing (1995)

Nicola Griffith. Slow River. (1995)

Stephanie Smith. Other Nature (1995)

Tricia Sullivan. Lethe (1995)

Jacqueline Harpman. I Who Have Never Known Men (1995)

Amy Thompson. The Color of Distance. (1995).

Rebecca Ore. Gaiaís Toys. (2995)

Melissa Scott. Night Sky Mine. (1996).

Sharon Shin. Archangel. (1996).

Alison Sinclair. Blueheart. (1996)

Wilhemina Baird. Chaos Come Again. (1996).

Valerie J. Freirich. The Beacon (1996)

Cherry Wilder. Signs of Life (1996)

Kathleen Ann Goonan. Bones of Time (1996)

Pat Murphy. Nadya.

Sarah Zettel. Reclamation (1996)

Edith Forbes. Exit to Reality. (1997). .

Severna Park. Speaking Dreams (1997)

Kathleen Ann Goonan. Mississippi Blues. (1997)

N. Lee Wood. Faradayís Orphans. (1997).

Nancy Kress. Beggarís Ride. (1997)

Zainab Amadahy. The Moons of Palmares (1997)

Linda Nagata. Deception Well. (1997).

Starhawk. The Fifth Sacred Thing. Walking to Mercury. (1997)

Nalo Hopkinson, Brown Girl in the Ring (1998)

Phyllis Gotlieb. Flesh and Gold (1998)

Octavia Butler. Parable of the Talents. (1998)

Severna Park. Hand of Prophecy. (1998)

Carolyn Ives Gilman. Halfway Human (1998)

Cheryl Franklin. The Light in Exile (1998)

Tannarive Due. My Soul to Keep (1998)

Linda Nagata. Vast (1998)

Pamela Sargent. Climb the Wind. (1999)

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