Victories Greater than Death by Charlie Jane Anders
A Half Built Garden by Ruthanna Emerys
Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
GuruNihilo on
Martha Wells: The *Murderbot Diaries* series of sci-fi novellas. The first one is **All Systems Red**
Gryptype_Thynne123 on
Look for an anthology from Library of America called The Future is Female! Women have been writing science fiction since the early days of the pulp magazines. There’s a lot out there if you’re willing to dig.
Look for Leigh Brackett, Andre Norton, Ursula LeGuin, Joan Vinge, James Tiptree (pseudonym for Alice Sheldon), C. L. Moore, Joanna Russ, Connie Willis, and of course the mother of the genre: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
GapDry7986 on
The Vatta’s War series by Elizabeth Moon
starboard19 on
There are so many good options out there!
Anything by Becky Chambers- To Be Taught if Fortunate is one of my favorites from her, so I agree with an earlier comment, and also love the Monk and Robot books. But her Wayfarer series is good too, and a more modern take on classic sci fi tropes.
A Memory Called Empire & A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
The Murderbot series by Martha Wells- SO good, don’t miss these
The Marrow Thieves books by Cherlie Dimaline – a post-apocalyptic story from an Indigeous perspective
The Other Star by Monica Byrne- seriously weird and sometimes disturbing but also genius story linking a Mayan civilization with the present and future
The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir – queer necromancers in space, need we say more?
Smooth-Review-2614 on
CJ Cherryh does amazing complex science fiction
Lois Bujold’s Vorkosigan Saga is one of the most beloved space operas of all time.
Anne McCaffery is an option.
Octavia Butler is one of the mothers of Afrofuturism.
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In addition to those already named:
Ann Leckie (Imperial Radch series)
Lois McMaster Bujold (Vorkosigan Saga)
Kameron Hurley (Bel Dame Apocrypha trilogy)
CJ Cherryh (Chanur and others)
Maureen F. McHugh
Malka Older
Nisi Shawl
unlovelyladybartleby on
Anne McCaffrey. Her stuff seems dated now but she initially started writing to protest the way women were portrayed in Sci fi and fantasy. I recommend the Brainships (especially ship who searched), Crystal Singer, Dinosaur Planet/Planet Pirates, Powers that Be, and the Freedom’s Landing series.
ChronoMonkeyX on
Emma Newman’s Planetfall, I highly recommend the audiobook narrated by herself. The first two are included in Audible Plus, which is how I found them. I knew her as the narrator of Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Guns of the Dawn(My favorite author, one of his best books) and was surprised to see her listed as the author, and since it was free, I grabbed it. The sequel is also included, features a male lead and narrator, then the third has a woman geologist/painter on Mars. I haven’t started the 4th yet, but I love her voice, both literal and literary.
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The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula k Le Guin
To be Taught if Fortunate by Becky Chambers
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
We Are Satellites by Sarah Pinsker
The Broken Earth trilogy by N.K Jemisin
Victories Greater than Death by Charlie Jane Anders
A Half Built Garden by Ruthanna Emerys
Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
Martha Wells: The *Murderbot Diaries* series of sci-fi novellas. The first one is **All Systems Red**
Look for an anthology from Library of America called The Future is Female! Women have been writing science fiction since the early days of the pulp magazines. There’s a lot out there if you’re willing to dig.
Look for Leigh Brackett, Andre Norton, Ursula LeGuin, Joan Vinge, James Tiptree (pseudonym for Alice Sheldon), C. L. Moore, Joanna Russ, Connie Willis, and of course the mother of the genre: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Vatta’s War series by Elizabeth Moon
There are so many good options out there!
Anything by Becky Chambers- To Be Taught if Fortunate is one of my favorites from her, so I agree with an earlier comment, and also love the Monk and Robot books. But her Wayfarer series is good too, and a more modern take on classic sci fi tropes.
A Memory Called Empire & A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
The Murderbot series by Martha Wells- SO good, don’t miss these
The Marrow Thieves books by Cherlie Dimaline – a post-apocalyptic story from an Indigeous perspective
The Other Star by Monica Byrne- seriously weird and sometimes disturbing but also genius story linking a Mayan civilization with the present and future
The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir – queer necromancers in space, need we say more?
CJ Cherryh does amazing complex science fiction
Lois Bujold’s Vorkosigan Saga is one of the most beloved space operas of all time.
Anne McCaffery is an option.
Octavia Butler is one of the mothers of Afrofuturism.
In addition to those already named:
Ann Leckie (Imperial Radch series)
Lois McMaster Bujold (Vorkosigan Saga)
Kameron Hurley (Bel Dame Apocrypha trilogy)
CJ Cherryh (Chanur and others)
Maureen F. McHugh
Malka Older
Nisi Shawl
Anne McCaffrey. Her stuff seems dated now but she initially started writing to protest the way women were portrayed in Sci fi and fantasy. I recommend the Brainships (especially ship who searched), Crystal Singer, Dinosaur Planet/Planet Pirates, Powers that Be, and the Freedom’s Landing series.
Emma Newman’s Planetfall, I highly recommend the audiobook narrated by herself. The first two are included in Audible Plus, which is how I found them. I knew her as the narrator of Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Guns of the Dawn(My favorite author, one of his best books) and was surprised to see her listed as the author, and since it was free, I grabbed it. The sequel is also included, features a male lead and narrator, then the third has a woman geologist/painter on Mars. I haven’t started the 4th yet, but I love her voice, both literal and literary.