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Sable Aradia
Posted 2017-01-02 12:59 AM (#14870)
Subject: Grand Mistresses of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge 2017		Quote Reply



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It's lonely at the top, especially if you're a woman at the top of a field in which women are outnumbered two to one. These are the Queens of Speculative Fiction, the ones we all admire or aspire to! This challenge was suggested by Dlw28, with modifying suggestions from our fearless leader, Cap (er, I mean, Dave Post).

We will be reading the works of the women who have been honoured with the SFWA's Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award (for science fiction,) the World Horror Convention Grand Master Award, or the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement. This includes authors and editors; short stories, novellas, magazines and novels. In alphabetical order, this list includes (and is limited to):

SFWA Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award:

C. J. Cherryh
Ursula K. Le Guin
Anne McCaffrey
Andre Norton
Connie Willis
Jane Yolen

World Horror Convention Grand Master Award:

Tanith Lee
Anne Rice
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement:

Ellen Asher
Betty Ballantine
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Susan Cooper
Ellen Datlow
Carol Emshwiller
Anglica Gorodischer
Diana Wynne Jones
Madeleine L'Engle
Ursula K. Le Guin
Tanith Lee
Patricia A. McKillip
C. L. Moore
Andre Norton
Sheri S. Tepper
Evangeline Walton
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Jane Yolen
Diane Dillon has also received the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement, but because she is an illustrator, I didn't think I should include her work in the challenge because it's about what we're reading. Still, I won't stop you if you want to include her work! I did include the editors because, as any writer who is honest will tell you, a published work is a collaboration between a writer with an idea and an editor who knows how to make that idea into something.
If you want to limit your selection to the Empresses of Speculative Fiction (who have won two out of the three awards) that list includes:

Empresses of Speculative Fiction:

Ursula K. Le Guin
Tanith Lee
Andre Norton
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Jane Yolen

The rules:

Re-reads must be at least five years old.

Only works by these women are elgible, but read as many books by the same author/editor as you like.

You are encouraged to overlap this challenge with other related challenges (such as Women of Genre Fiction, Author! Author! or 12 Awards in 12 Months.)

Please share! I'm distressed by how many avid readers seem to have never heard of these gifted ladies, and this must be remedied!

Happy reading!

Edited by Sable Aradia 2017-01-02 1:00 AM

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