For many science fiction and fantasy readers, these last names command the spotlight and respect: [J.R.R.] Tolkien, [George R ...

Science fiction has always been a way to envision the future. Sometimes for the optimal; sometimes as the future might be if humans do not zig toward the good and just. As the legendary science ...

But because feminists define female maturity in different terms, they need a different kind of story. In the fiction of Joanna Russ we find ... and her justification of racial prejudice in terms of a ...

With 11 Hugo Awards and seven Nebula Awards to her name, Willis has won more major science fiction and fantasy awards than any other writer. Her work is witty, varied, and often satirical.

in the 1920s provides us with information about one more precursor of the women who began emerging as (utopian) SF writers three decades later. In the opening essay, on "Post-Modernism and Feminist ...

From science fiction to aesthetic theory, the women writers listed here all found freedom within a patriarchal society to write under male pseudonyms. In so doing, they circumnavigated society’s ...

"I was telling people, ‘I’m really interested in science fiction’ and everyone was like ... especially as a young writer. You sort of look for people who are a bit like you and it ...

She admits it herself. She’s not just a science fiction writer, though she’s written 13 books and the words science fiction often follow her name – as in “one of the few black female science fiction ...

Many of the writers come from marginalized communities. Each, explains Imarisha, is “already science fiction walking around on two legs ... I’d spent hours being told how the women of our prison are ...

Looking to add some new books to your shelves? We have a few suggestions… Everyone can probably name a handful of black female authors, from Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou and Roxane Gay to our ...