Because we wouldn’t want to forget that women have always written SFF, WOULD WE?
1915 – Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
1916 – Five Generations Hence by Lillian B Jones
1917 – The Great Beast of Kaifu by Clotilde Graves
1918 – The Professor in Erin by L. McManus
1919 – When Dead Lips Speak by Alice Earle Chapin
1920 – Serapion by Gertrude Barrow Bennett
1921 – The Secret Power by Marie Corelli
1922 – Theodore Savage by Cicely Hamilton
1923 – Uncanny Stories by May Sinclair
1926 – Metropolis by Thea von Harbou
1927 – The Fate of the Poseidonia by Clare Winger Harris
1928 – Orlando by Virginia Woolfe
1930 – Into the 28th Century by Lilith Lorraine
1931 – The Corn King and the Spring Queen by Naomi Mitchison
1932 – Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
1933 – The Last Bouquet by Marjorie Bowen
1934 – Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers
1935 – The Girl with the X-ray Eyes by Mhairi O’Nair
1936 – The Virgin and the Swine by Evangeline Walton
1937 – Swastika Night by Katherine Burdekin
1939 – Hellsgarde by C. L. Moore
1940 – Kallocain by Karin Boye
1941 – The Dragon-Queen of Jupiter by Leigh Brackett
1942 – The Ghost Ship of Aztlan by L. Taylor Hansen
1943 – Anger in the Sky by Susan Ertz
1944 – The Delicate Ape by Dorothy B. Hughes
1945 – I Am Lazarus by Anna Cavan
1946 – The Last Generation? by Miriam Allen deFord
1947 – The Soma Racks by Margaret St. Clair
1948 – In Hiding by Wilmar H. Shiras
1949 – Defence Mechanism by Katherine MacLean
1950 – Shadow on the Hearth by Judith Merril
1951 – Hidden Valley of Oz by Rachel Cosgrove Payes
1952 – Tea Tray in the Sky by Evelyn E. Smith
1953 – You Can’t Stop A Spaceman by Norma K. Hemming
1954 – The Long Way Back by Margot Bennett
1955 – The Brides of Ool by Monette Cummings
1956 – The Pint-Sized Genie by Kate Wilhelm
1957 – Strange Evil by Jane Gaskell
1958 – From an Unseen Censor by Rosel George Brown
1959 – Encounter by Joan Hunter Holly
1960 – To Whom It May Concern by Elisabeth Mann Borgese
1961 – Mantrap by Wilhelmina Baird
1962 – A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle
1963 – Witch World by Andre Norton
1964 – Sunburst by Phyllis Gotlieb
1965 – The Anything Box by Zenna Henderson
1966 – When I Was Miss Dow by Sonia Dorman
1967 – The Heat Death of the Universe by Pamela Zoline
1968 – They by Marya Mannes
1969 – The Ship Who Sang by Anne McCaffrey
1970 – Deryni Rising by Katherine Kurtz
1971 – The Lathe of Heave by Ursula K LeGuin
1972 – Darkover Landfall by Marion Zimmer Bradley
1973 – Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home by James Tiptree Jnr.
1974 – Walk to the End of the World by Suzy McKee Charnas
1975 – The Female Man by Joanna Russ
1976 – Islands by Marta Randall
1977 – Diadem from the Stars by Jo Clayton
1978 – Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre
1979 – Kindred by Octavia Butler
1980 – The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge
1981 – Downbelow Station by C. J. Cherryh
1982 – The Time of the Dark by Barbara Hambly
1983 – So You Want To Be A Wizard by Diane Duane
1984 – Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
1985 – The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
1986 – Daggerspell by Katherine Kerr
1987 – War for the Oaks by Emma Bull
1988 – The Healer’s War by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
1989 – Grass by Sheri S. Tepper
1990 – Thomas the Rhymer by Ellen Kushner
1991 – Synners by Pat Cadigan
1992 – Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
1993 – The Element of Fire by Martha Wells
1994 – Beggars and Choosers by Nancy Kress
1995 – Slow River by Nicola Griffith
1996 – The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
1997 – King’s Dragon by Kate Elliot
1998 – Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
1999 – Black Light by Elizabeth Hand
2000 – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
2001 – The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold
2002 – Light Music by Kathleen Ann Goonan
2003 – Natural History by Justina Robson
2004 – Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
2005 – Zahrah the Windseeker by Nnedi Okorafor
2006 – The Orphan’s Tales: In the Night Garden by Catherynne Valente
2007 – Empress by Karen Miller
2008 – Moxyland by Lauren Beukes
2009 – Ōoku: The Inner Chambers by Fumi Yoshinaga
2010 – Servant of the Underworld by Aliette de Bodard
2011 – Among Others by Jo Walton
2012 – The Killing Moon by N. K. Jemisin
2013 – Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
2014 – The Mirror Empire by Kameron Hurley
Farewell!
