Thanks for the suggestions!

I thoroughly enjoyed both Station Eleven and Ancillary Justice (I’m yet to read the rest of the series)

Thanks Michael! I tried to include a wide variety

Yes! I just knew someone had to have mentioned the Vorkosigan Saga in the comments - such a great series!

I love all of these too! For space opera/romantic SF, I also love Ann Aguirre, Rachel Bach, Karen Traviss, Debra Doyle & James D. Macdonald, Kristine Smith, Jacqueline Koyanagi, Sara Creasy, Laura E. Reeve, Chris Moriarty, Elizabeth Bonesteel, and Julie E. Czerneda. Some other SF I love that isn't space opera: Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre, Sharon Shinn's Samaria Series (a lot of people categorize this series as fantasy, so I guess it's a genre blend), Joan D. Vinge's Tiamat Cycle, and The Color of Distance by Amy Thomson. Thank you for this video Bethany. I've been reading SF (and fantasy) by women for a long time now and it's nice to see someone focusing on women authors.

I really need to try Leckie at some point!

Yay!!!

Remnant Population sounds great! Thanks for suggesting!

Some of these I've read and they are great! As I said at the end, this was just scratching the surface with books I have on my shelves and have read recently. At some point I may do a video focusing on older women writers in the genre, that just wasn't the project here. Though Octavia Butler is also amazing and wrote a bit earlier. Editing to say I re-read this and realized it might not have been intended as specific criticism and I may have been a bit defensive. Thank you for pointing these out and I hope people will pick them up!

Thank you for these!

Yess to C.J. Cherryh! will check out the others, thanks

@@BeautifullyBookishBethany It is not meant to be specific; I realize that most of the book-tubers are fairly young and I am not. My first adult fiction forays were Piers Anthony, Anne McCaffrey and Jean M Auel (mainly because my father had them on our bookshelf). Part of the frustration is how much they contributed and how much the fostered and collaborated with other women and for SFF in general. MZB was also a huge part of bringing new authors an opportunity, but she is far, far more problematic than JKR. Fortunately, she is deceased and proceeds for her books go to Save the Children. For Anne McCaffrey Pern you can see how much her world and themes changed with the times. Restoree was romance sci fi with a strong female protagonist written in '67 if I recall correctly. For Elizabeth Moon fantasy Deed of Paksenarrion, for the rest, all I can say is take a look through and see if something resonates. I am glad to see that you did a video highlighting women authors as so many channels seem to highlight and talk about male authors in the sff category especially if they are talking older books. I do apologize if it felt like a direct attack.

I really appreciate this because I’ve had it on my mind to do a project at some point highlighting some of the women who pioneered SFF and have a few others on my radar as well. Anne McCaffrey was a big deal when I was growing up, and I didn’t know until more recently that Andre Norton wasn’t male. I have seen the stuff about MZB and it’s very rough. A lot of what I read is new releases for review, but I also try to select a set of older titles every year to round things out. I do think women today are doing a lot of cool things in the genre, but the groundwork was laid much earlier. And I’m sorry too, this is why I shouldn’t respond to comments at the end of a long day. 😅 My kids just went back to school and I initially interpreted this more critically.

Okay, that one that is similar to the Expanse is going on my TBR.

Yay! I have the UK edition

Elliott is great!

THIS!

I haven’t heard of that last one! Interesting..

Yes!! And I need to read more Nikki Drayden

I love this!

Drowning Deep is fantastic! I didn't think about adding that.

I need to try her!

@@BeautifullyBookishBethany Enjoy!

I recently read Remnant Population and it was such a wonderful and different science fiction story

It is!