Gurls can't write the skiffy.

[maevele]

Suzette Haden Elgin
Elizabeth Bear
Lois McMaster Bujold
Octavia Butler
Gwynneth Jones
Pat Cadigan
Suzy McKee Charnas
Nalo Hopkinson
Nancy Kress
Ursula K. Le Guin
Vonda McIntyre
Maureen McHugh
Linda Nagata
Andre Norton
Joanna Russ
Melissa Scott
Alice Sheldon - as James Tiptree, Jr. and Raccoona Sheldon
Mary Shelley
Connie Willis
Kate Wilhelm
Sherri Tepper
Karen Joy Fowler
Tanith Lee
Pat Murphy
C.L. Moore
Ann mcCaffery
Kit Reed
some copied from the fsfwiki, some brainstormed.

added by flist
Jo Clayton

Vonda McIntyre
Pamela Sargent and Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
C.J. Cherryh

eleuki bes shahar

Catherine Asaro (physicist AND lover of romance plotlines!)
Vandana Singh
Nisi Shawl
Susan Palwick (And if Gestella isn't mind-blowing I dunno what is)
Elizabeth Moon
R.M. Meluch
Patricia McKillip (who has written SF, and odd and mind-twisting stuff it is)
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Joan Vinge

Maybe not all have them have written anything 'mind blowing' but a lot of them sure as fuck have.

Comments

[ithiliana.livejournal.com]

Dang, you beat me with CJC!

[ithiliana.livejournal.com]

Sorry, posted too soon--meant to say, seconding others, and adding Meluch to my list since I've not heard of her before!

[shweta-narayan.livejournal.com]

And I don't even like CJC*.


* More accurately, I disliked Cuckoo's Egg immensely and people keep telling me "Oh you MUST read more of her" which gets my hackles up; probably if nobody does that for another year or two I'll try her again :)

[ithiliana.livejournal.com]

I started babbling about my favorite CJC (I dislike some of her books intensely), then read your comment more carefully and did not post.

Still, whenever, if you ever decide to consider it again, will be happy to give a rec or two!