1970s women SF writers

from james_davis_nicoll 

Italicize the authors you've heard of before reading this list of authors, bold the ones you've read at least one work by, underline the ones of whose work you own at least one example of.

Lynn Abbey
Eleanor Arnason
Octavia Butler
Moyra Caldecott  (I can't remember reading anything by her, but she wrote Egyption historical fiction and I ate that stuff up with a spoon when I was about twelve)
Jayge Carr
Joy Chant
Suzy McKee Charnas
C. J. Cherryh
Jo Clayton
Candas Jane Dorsey
Diane Duane
Phyllis Eisenstein
Cynthia Felice
Sheila Finch
Sally Gearhart
Mary Gentle
Dian Girard
Eileen Gunn
Monica Hughes
Diana Wynne Jones
Gwyneth Jones
Leigh Kennedy
Lee Killough
Nancy Kress
Katherine Kurtz
Tanith Lee
Megan Lindhold (aka Robin Hobb)
Elizabeth A. Lynn
Phillipa Maddern
Ardath Mayhar
Vonda McIntyre
Patricia A. McKillip
Janet Morris
Pat Murphy
Sam Nicholson (aka Shirkey Nikolaisen)
Rachel Pollack
Marta Randall
Anne Rice
Jessica Amanda Salmonson  (I don't remember reading any of her books but I totally loved anything like the Amazons! anthology)
Pamela Sargent
Sydney J. Van Scyoc
Susan Shwartz
Nancy Springer
Lisa Tuttle
Joan Vinge
Elisabeth Vonarburg
Cherry Wilder
Connie Willis



OMG Elizabeth A. Lynn!  The Northern Girl!  I remember the cover of the library copy had a drawing of the archer on the cover, and she was mostly naked except for a loincloth, and her bow arm covered strategic bits...The adults around me were scandalized by the cover, but they would have been even MORE scandalized had they realized what was IN the book I was reading :D   I of course thought it was pure awesome.  More interestingly perhaps, my reaction to the lesbian relationship in the book wasn't "eeeek!" or "ooooh!"   It was more like...it seemed perfectly normal to me.  Like, unremarkably normal and I couldn't quite figure out why that wasn't the state of affairs IRL.  I wonder how it would stand up on a re-read.

Tanith Lee and Joan Vinge also contributed mightily to the warping of my psyche :)