Re: One of our own was mentioned

On 10/8/2024 7:24 PM, 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

Andre Norton was actually Alice Mary Norton.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Norton
Other women who have won SF awards are:
Lois McMaster Bujold (4 Hugos !)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_McMaster_Bujold
Jo Walton (2 Hugos and many others)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Walton
Ilona Gordon (half of Ilona Andrews) (no awards but she should have a few)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilona_Andrews
Kelly Armstrong (no awards but should have a few)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelley_Armstrong
Faith Hunter (no awards but should have a few)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_Hunter
Lynn