Favourite author gender and genre

[quizcustodiet]

My usual "go to sleep" tactic is thinking about something interesting but unstressful, e.g
"What would I do first if I won the lottery?", "what tracks would I pick for desert island discs?", "can I think of perfectly normal backgrounds for RPG characters (rather than the cliche traumatic ones like [bad force] murdered my village and I want revenge!)"

Recently I was thinking about my favourite fantasy and SF authors and noticed a funny disparity - see below.

Top Fantasy Authors

Raymond Feist
Janny Wurts
Jasper Fforde
Lois McMaster Bujold
Nicholas Eames
R J Barker
Miles Cameron
Naomi Novik
Katherine Addison
Drew Hayes
T Kingfisher
Elizabeth Moon
Ben Aaronovitch
Robin Hobb


Top Science Fiction authors
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Peter F Hamilton
Marko Kloos
John Scalzi
Becky Chambers
Elliot Kay
Martha Wells
Dennis E Taylor
Glynn Stewart
Elizabeth Moon

My fantasy list is pretty gender balanced. My sci-fi list... is not. I think a lot of it comes from sub-genre preferences: I'm mostly into military SF which I can imagine being less common for female SF authors. ("Some Desperate Glory" by Emily Tesh was one of my favourite books last year but I won't put her into the favourite author list while I've only read one book!)

Interested to hear if other people have similar differences between genres or if it's just me!

Comments

[wychwood]

Have you read any of Tanya Huff's Valor books? Also, Ann Leckie's Ancillary books are really quite milSF. Oh, and the Vorkosigan Saga.

I love milSF but only very specific types, which means that my reading does end up skewing quite female there as well!

[quizcustodiet]

I read the first of the Ancillary books but have not yet been enthused enough for the sequels, but the Vorkosigan books are on my TBR list