Re: One of our own was mentioned

On 10/8/24 17:24, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

On 10/8/24 16:09, BCFD 36 wrote:

I recently received the 2023 version of The Best Science Fiction of the Year by Neil Clarke. Our very own Dorthy was mentioned as one of those who had passed away.
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I have found a couple of stories I liked so far.
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It is interesting that just about 50%, or maybe even more since I am not sure of some of the names, of the authors are women. It didn't used to be that way at all.
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     I think in the past to get acceptance many women wrote
under male names. But we had some very great female authors
from an relatively early time in the SF field.
I learned a great deal but did not find the story or the author
I wanted to praise.
 Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
      The first science fiction story published in a magazine by a woman in America was The Fate of the Poseidonia, written by Claire Winger Harris in 1927. The story was published by Hugo Gernsback in the pulp magazine Amazing Stories
 Alice Bradley Sheldon adopted the name James Tiptree Jr
 Marion Zimmer Bradley        Andre Norton
 Elizabeth Moon loved her series started with the Oath of Gerd.
 Kate Wilhelm        Ursula K. LeGuin
 Sheri S. Tepper        C. J. Cherryh
 Margaret Atwood        Octavia Butler
 Connie Willis        Andre Norton
 Ursula K. LeGuin    Joanna Russ
 Zenna Henderson and her stories of the People
 Who published afaik in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
later collected into several books which I have not read. I found
her name by diligent online search on the Magazine.
<https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=zenna+henderson+books&ia=web>
 and newer stuff as well by
 Seanan McGuire    `    Lydia Sherre
 Lindy Ryan        Aubrey Wood
 Linsay Sands        Martha Wells
 Hannah Fergesen        Rachel Aaron
 I got the last bit from my file of Book Reviews
 bliss
 

I should have included since it is fantasy
the very long Series by Kim Harrison where the
creatures of the night have come out to save
the social organization of people on whom vampires
are dependent and Witch/Demon maybe Goddess Rachel
Morgan and her friends, enemies and pals. Some of
the old vampires are quite evil enough for horror
stories
Also Charlene Harris with her stories of the
telepathic Waitress and go between for vampires and
others, Sookie Stackhous.
She likes Vampires because she cannot
read their minds. Exactly why I did not like the
TV series made from this I cannot say.  Harris
though is the author of several mystery series
sometime without supernatural powers but in
one series a young woman who can find dead
people and get information about them that the
crime lab cannot. Her brother is her helper.
I have read all the stories by Harris that I
can get my hands on.
bliss
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