Although the novel
Frankenstein, written in
1818by
Mary Shelley has been called the first
science fiction novel, there is a persistent but false belief that women did not enter the field of science fiction writing until the 1960's and 1970's.
Other notable women in the science fiction field include:
- [Leigh Brackett]?
- [Marion Zimmer Bradley]?
- [Judy-Lynn Del Rey]?
- [Zenna Henderson]?
- [Mercedes Lackey]?
- Ursula K. LeGuin
- [Anne McCaffrey]?
- [Judith Merril]?
- [Elizabeth Moon]?
- [C. L. Moore]?
- [Andre Norton]? (Born Alice Mary Norton, changed her name to Andre Alice Norton)
- Joanna Russ
- [Margaret St. Clair]?
- James Tiptree, Junior (Pen name of Alice Sheldon)
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