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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.
> 
> I have found a couple of stories I liked so far.
> 
> 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.
> 
	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

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