100 Stories, 100 Writers, 100 Years

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!


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4 thoughts on “100 Stories, 100 Writers, 100 Years”

  1. This list is very cool, thanks for compiling it. We need to be reminded that women have always written fiction, even in ‘masculine’ genres. One of the authors I follow recently tweeted about using initials instead of her first name on a new book to hide the fact that the author is female. She thought this might improve sales (along with having no photo of the author on the dust jacket). I am very sympathetic to her efforts to increase sales of her work, but this approach really bothered me. It took me a long time to discover most of my favorite authors are women because of the use of pseudonyms, initials, and androgynous names, and perpetuating this practice only serves to obscure the contributions of women. Will a significant number of people refuse to buy a book because it was written by a woman?!? I honestly hope this is not true 😦

    Liz, you’ve chosen to use your initials for professional purposes. Was there a specific reason why?

  2. Fantastic list! I’m going to have to look each of these up once I have some spare time (if I ever do).

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