#sci fi by women

[69books-suck69]

Like The Syndic, I picked this up (thrift store, I think) hoping for dumb trash, a nice Mad Max ripoff, as I'd seen a bunch of those around second hand shops (endworld, deathlands, etc). What I got instead was a brutal, uncompromising, empathic, and thoughtful piece of eco-fiction that grappled fearlessly with sexual violence and the fallout of trauma. I've since learned that I love spec fic by 70s & 80s lesbians, due to an evocative deployment of romance novel techniques (often bordering on slashfic) in violent SFF frameworks. This one flashes some trash fiction ultra-violence early, then pivots to a slow-burn character study, and a very grounded survival story. The ambiguous non-ending and denial of catharsis was a quality I would later come to love in the work of Yarbro's contemporary, CJ Cherryh. False Dawn is pretty underrated, like Yarbro is generally. This book is an all-timer imo. Walking Dead eat your heart out.

[thirdwifeofriversong]

i’d like to add to these recs, all by women or non-binary authors and all with queer representation:

1. Thé Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold (some are older, and some contain misogyny but do a really good job of exploring gender politics) (shoutout to my Vorkosigan mutuals🫶🏻)

2. The Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White (very fun, also blurs the line between sci fi and fantasy but leans more toward sci fi)

3. A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine (chef’s kiss)

4. I know Becky Chambers was mentioned in the original post, but A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet is very fun and lighthearted as well

classic scifi novels by men r always like. page 1 here’s a cool scifi idea i had. page 2 i hate women so much it’s unreal

[humanoidhistory]

Alien production still.

[spirk-trek]

Georgia Schmidt, Carole Shelyne, Serena Sande, Meg Wyllie, & Sandra Lee Gimpel

A tribute to some lesser-known women of Star Trek :)

[nonolithic]

Fire Heart

[jellisdraws]

Support Women in STEM 💉

Nev, for @headspace-hotel

[lesbinewren]

ik this is old news but it’s been on my mind lately. it was very incredibly alienating as a female star wars fan (and lesbian) when manny jacinto took his shirt off in the acolyte and a thousand people were like “FINALLY they’re making star wars for WOMEN not gross boy star wars!!!”

it was especially frustrating because i feel like so much time (like literal decades!!) was spent having to fight people to see “star wars has always been for girls too, it’s for everyone!” only for people to seemingly concede that actually, it WAS always for boys, but NOW we have star wars for girls because dark romance or whatever

i’m happy people who previously weren’t interested in star wars found something that appealed to them and drew them in. this is by no means a gatekeeping post saying it’s wrong to have gotten into the acolyte because of those things. it just really sucks to be someone who did always love star wars and had to spend a long time defending being a girl who likes star wars only for people who should be on the same side unwittingly play into the rhetoric that was used to try to exclude women

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Cat-Women of the Moon (1953)

[cultofthewyrm]

by Tian Kou

[technicallyclassyperfection]

Via print:

[1999eyez]

zendaya on the set of 'dune' (2021)

[pacific-chrome]

[sesamestreep]

love it when Star Trek is like “ugh, do we HAVE to do sci-fi right now?? We wanna do a murder mystery instead!” and so they just do a murder mystery and then like in the last five minutes they’re like “and the murderer? was an alien! because this is Star Trek!” end credits created by gene roddenberry

[spirk-trek]

Janet MacLachlan as Lieutenant Charlene Masters

S1E28: The Alternative Factor ⋆.˚ ✧ · ˚⊹ ·

[nonolithic]

Amped

[weirdlookindog]

Las mujeres panteras (1967)