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quizcustodiet) wrote2025-06-28 04:11 pm
quizcustodiet) wrote2025-06-28 04:11 pm
Favourite author gender and genre
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!
"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!
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I love milSF but only very specific types, which means that my reading does end up skewing quite female there as well!
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