Andre Norton is one of those iconic writers and if you haven’t read any of her books then I must recommend you rectify that pretty quickly. I know I’ve had some of my shelf but maybe they were transient due to borrowing from somewhere else. I always wondered about her name and ...
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." C.S. Lewis
Est. 2009
I really couldn’t do anyone other than Anne McCaffrey for today’s letter, it just wouldn’t be right. McCaffrey has been on my favourite author list for a very long time, far longer than I care to remember. I don’t like all of her books, I especially don’t like the Ship ...
There is only one possible author for today’s article and that is Ursula K. Le Guin. Her books are from my childhood and so many other people’s childhoods. We’re talking the Earthsea Quartet and you can see the first book, The Wizard of Earthsea, in this photo. And then we’re talking ...
Today I’ve ummm and ahhhed about which author to cover, I’ve opened far too many Wikipedia pages and gradually whittled them away to half a dozen only to then go through each author again until I finally only had two people. Do I go with Jean E Karl who edited ...
J has been the hardest letter to decide to date. I ended up with two totally worthy candidates and the only difference was their age, I went with the older writer as I figured she’d have more of a handle on the issues they were both espousing. N. K. Jemisin, born ...
I can give you even less information about Taibah Al-Ibrahim than I could about Carine Heidmann. Al-Ibrahim writes in Arabic and was the first science fiction writer in Kuwait. She has written several books, the translated title of one book is The Extinction of Men, published in 1990. And she was a candidate for ...
Looking through my copies of ASIM I found Carine Heidmann and after a quick (and then slow) read of her short story I figured she’d be good target for today’s letter. I don’t have a lot of information about her, the best I can find is published in the back ...
I decided to write about Mary Gentle as I love her name and then in doing more research I found a very interesting blog, the author positively loves Gentle and thinks she’s awesome, the article made me want to write about her for much better reasons. Born in the UK in ...
When I first started researching this letter I thought I’d have great trouble as I couldn’t find females writing science fiction. Where are the women authors in the science fiction genre? Then I found a list, clicked on all the authors and whittled down the 30 something entries to eight likely ...
Introduced to me months ago by Jen when I wrote about William Ellern so here I am writing about Sylvia Engdahl. I find I’m fascinated by her. She has a Facebook page which she obviously works on, including responding to people. She has a blog which she doesn’t work on very much, ...
Diane Duane is a youngish author having been born in 1952 and in New York City to boot! Her writing crosses the threshold between fantasy and science fiction and it’s very obvious with her Star Trek works. She’s written several of the Star Trek Novels and co-wrote the script for one ...
Today I am totally spoilt for choice. I found a plethora of women science fiction writers and even in narrowing it down I had three authors: Pat Cadigan who I follow on Twitter and have had odd conversations with; Isobelle Carmody who has written excellent books and; C. J. Cherryh. As ...
Looking for B in female science fiction authors I came across an interesting thought. I have a book which I refer to for this kind of thing, The Illustrated Book of Science Fiction Lists, put together in 1982 before we started being really proactive about female authors and in the ...
Having successfully navigated myself from one end of the alphabet to the other with male science writers I’m now embarking on another journey, that of female science fiction writers. I fully expect to encounter both the familiar and the unfamiliar names with some of the more challenging letters being filled ...
Last, but certainly not least in the Alphabet by Author, is George Zebrowski. Born Jerzy (pronounced Yerzhee) Tadeus Zebrowski in Austria of Polish descent which for some reason explains the Polish name in 1945. He’s been published since about 1972 and has a respectable body of work to his name. Some of ...