{"id":20459,"date":"2013-05-16T06:30:24","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T18:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=20459"},"modified":"2013-05-16T08:27:53","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T20:27:53","slug":"women-write-science-fiction-yes-we-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/05\/16\/women-write-science-fiction-yes-we-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Write Science Fiction: Yes, We Do!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, I posted<\/a> a few links to interesting articles around the traps. One was Cheryl Morgan’s Woman\u2019s Hour on SF \u2013 A Train Wreck<\/a><\/p>\n

The reason why the Woman’s Hour was a train wreck, according to Cheryl, was because apparently the pundits tried to tell us that women don’t write Science Fiction. My first response was: where do these people come from–Cloud Cuckoo Land? Cheryl’s response is more in-depth and reasoned, but I have been thinking about it since then and just for the record, thought I would do an off-the-top-of-my-head list of the names of women Science Fiction authors I know of. (I am going to stick to novelists as if we launched in short stories I suspect we would run into next week! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Many of them are taken from the post and comments from my Thoughts On Space Opera: Women Authors<\/a> from last year. But not all–there are a few new ones.<\/p>\n

So here goes, leaping in:<\/p>\n