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From: ml1@ukc.UUCP (M.Longley)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: feminist sf/fantasy
Message-ID: <302@ukc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17-Oct-85 13:58:15 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 17 13:58:15 1985
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Reply-To: ml1@eagle.UUCP (Mark Longley)
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I am not really sure what qualifies a book to be considered as feminist,
but I think most of the following are at least not sexist, though I may be
wrong about this. I would be interested in learning which authors of SF you
do consider as feminist in particular if they are people I have not so far
read.
Anyway I can at least claim that I think the following books are worth reading.
By far the best is "The Female Man" by Joanna Russ.

Lynn Abbey		Daughter of the Bright Moon | The Black Flame |
			The Guardians

F.M. Busby		Zelde M'Tana | Rissa Kerguelen

Octavia E. Butler	Clay's Ark | Mind of My Mind | Survivor | Patternmaster

Jayge Carr		Leviathan's Deep

Suzy McKee Charnas	Walk to the End of the World | Motherlines

Samuel R. Delany	Babel-17

Suzette Haden Elgin	Native Tongue

Cynthia Felice		Godsfire | The Sunbound | Eclipses

Sally Miller Gearhart	The Wanderground

Mary Gentle		Golden Witchbreed

Phyllis Gotlieb		Sunburst | A Judgement of Dragons |
			Emperor, Swords, Pentacles | The Kingdom of the Cats

Jen Green & Sarah Lefanu   (eds)
			Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind

Virginia Kidd  (ed)	The Eye of the Heron and Other Stories

Lee Killough		The Monitor, the Miners and the Shree |
			The Doppleganger Gambit | Liberty's World

Donald Kingsbury	Courtship Rite

Ursula K. LeGuin	The Dispossessed | The Left Hand of Darkness

Elizabeth A. Lynn	Watchtower | The Dancers of Arun | The Northern Girl

R.A. MacAvoy		Tea With the Black Dragon

Vonda N. McIntyre	The Exile Waiting | Dreamsnake

Sandra Miesel		Dreamrider

Jane Palmer		The Planet Dweller

Joanna Russ		The Female Man | We Who Are About To ... |
			The Two of Them | And Chaos Died |
			The Adventures of Alyx | The Zanzibar Cat |
			Extra(Ordinary) People

Pamela Sargent  (ed)	Women of Wonder | More Women of Wonder

James H. Schmitz	The Universe Against Her | The Lion Game |
			The Demon Breed | The Telzey Toy and Other Stories |
			Agent of Vega

Alice Sheldon		10,000 Light-Years From Home |
			Warm Worlds and Otherwise |
			Star Songs of an Old Primate |
			Out of the Everywhere, and Other Extraordinary Visions

John Varley		Titan | Wizard | Demon | The Ophiuchi Hotline |
			In the Hall of the Martian Kings | The Barbie Murders

Joan D. Vinge		The Outcasts of Heaven Belt | Fireship |
			Eyes of Amber and Other Stories