Time to Decide: What Are the Best Sci-Fi Titles Written by Women?
In honor of International Women's Day, which falls on March 8th, last week's poll asked for you to think about science fiction titles written by women and submit the ones you think are the very best. With well over 50 different and amazing titles submitted, there was some tough competition! We went easy on you for the first round of voting, allowing you to vote for as many titles as you'd like.
But now, it's time to decide.
This week, we'll ask you to narrow down your choice to one selection. Which one do you think is the very best? With ten truly excellent titles to choose from, we know it won't be easy! Read on to see what made the cut and if you are curious to know what didn't, you can see the original list of nominations in our facebook group.
*This list is made up by combining votes from this blog and our Facebook group. In the cases where both a series and a title from that series was nominated and in the top ten, we combined the votes and moved the series forward.
I thoroughly enjoyed Elizabeth Moons Trading in Danger series but I do love ‘space operas’, ie. David Weber and the Honor Harrington series.
Where are Elizabeth Moon, Jo Walton, Marion Zimmer-Bradley, Sharon Lee, etc?
Indeed. Also Octavia Butler, Nicola Griffith, Sherri Tepper, Joanna Russ, Joan D. Vinge, Connie Willis. And new authors N.K. Jemesin, Anne Leckie, Nnedi Okorafor…
Leigh Brackett?
No Leigh Brackett? Seriously? She only wrote “The Sword of Rhiannon,” and the Erick Stark series. No C. L. Moore? You know, the writer of “Black God’s Kiss” and many others. I’ll go with Andre Norton, but I am shaking my head at who you left off this list.