So here’s the thing guys… I need your help. I began my Research Masters on Future Feminism today, and I’m compiling a list of contemporary female SF authors (not fantasy, not YA, and not straight SF romance) who have been published in novel length work since 2000.
I’d love to hear who your favourite female SF (post 2000) author is so I can add them to my reading list. Please leave the names in the comments section and I’ll add them to my main list. I’ve made a solid start, but there are many more! I’ve alphabetised by surname.
Female SF novelists published post 2000:
Anne Aguirre
Nina Allan
Jo Anderton
Catherine Asaro
Rachel Bach
Kage Baker
Cherith Baldry
Elizabeth Bear
Jacey Bedford
Lauren Beukes
Jennifer Marie Brissett
Octavia Butler
Monica Byrne
Pat Cadigan
C J. Cherryh
Julie E. Czerneda
Aliette de Bodard
Sara Creasy
L Timmel Duchamp
Carol Emshwiller
Kelley Eskridge
Jaine Fenn
JM Frey
Mary Gentle
Carolyn Ives Gilman
Mira Grant
Kathleen Anne Goonan
Nicola Griffith
Andrea Hairston
Nalo Hopkinson
M. C. A. Hogarth
Sarah Hoyt
Tanya Huff
Kameron Hurley
Patty Jansen
Jean Johnson
Gwyneth Jones
Emmi Itaranta
Jacqueline Koyanagi
Mary Robinette Kowal
Nancy Kress
Kim Lakin-Smith
Larissa Lai
Sharon Lee
Anne Leckie
Karen Lord
Karin Lowachee
Helen Lowe
Maxine MacArthur
Maurenn F. McHugh
Lois McMaster Bujold
Julian May
Laura Mixon
Elizabeth Moon
Lyda Morehouse
Chris Moriarty
Meg Mundell
Pat Murphy
Linda Nagata
Emma Newman
Audrey Niffennegger
Lisanne Norman
Claire North
Nnedi Okorafor
Kate Orman
Helen Patrice
Cherie Priest
Kit Reed
Laura E. Reeve
Rhonda Roberts
Justina Robson
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Stephanie Saulter
Melissa Scott
Johanna Sinisalo
Joan Slonczewski
Kristine Smith
Steph Swainston
EJ Swift
Tricia Sullivan
Sheri S. Tepper
Steph Swainston
Karen Traviss
S. L. Viehl
Jo Walton
Martha Wells
Kim Westwood
Liz Williams
Connie Willis
Janine Ellen Young
Self-Published
Cynthia Echterling
Andrea K Host
G. S. Jennsen
Mainstream Authors who have written SF
Kate Atkinson (Life After Life, 2013)
Margaret Atwood
Ioanna Bourazopoulou (What Lot’s Wife Saw, 2013 English trans)
Jennifer Egan (A Visit From the Goon Squad, 2010)
Lauren Groff (Arcadia, 2012)
Xiaolu Guo (UFO in Her Eyes, 2009)
Sarah Hall – The Carhullan Army
Liz Jensen (various, including The Rapture, 2009)
Joanna Kavenna (The Birth of Love, 2010)
Lydia Millet (Oh Pure and Radiant Heart, 2006)*
Jan Morris (Hav, 2007)*
Sarah Moss (Cold Earth)
Ruth Ozeki (A Tale for the Time Being, 2013)
Jane Rogers (The Testament of Jessie Lamb, 2011)
Scarlett Thomas (various, including The End of Mr Y)
Kit Whtifield (In Great Waters, 2008)*
Jeanette Winterson (The Stone Gods, 2007)
Juli Zeh (The Method, 2012 English trans)
