#sci fi by women

[69books-suck69]

Like The Syndic, I picked this up (thrift store, I think) hoping for dumb trash, a nice Mad Max ripoff, as I'd seen a bunch of those around second hand shops (endworld, deathlands, etc). What I got instead was a brutal, uncompromising, empathic, and thoughtful piece of eco-fiction that grappled fearlessly with sexual violence and the fallout of trauma. I've since learned that I love spec fic by 70s & 80s lesbians, due to an evocative deployment of romance novel techniques (often bordering on slashfic) in violent SFF frameworks. This one flashes some trash fiction ultra-violence early, then pivots to a slow-burn character study, and a very grounded survival story. The ambiguous non-ending and denial of catharsis was a quality I would later come to love in the work of Yarbro's contemporary, CJ Cherryh. False Dawn is pretty underrated, like Yarbro is generally. This book is an all-timer imo. Walking Dead eat your heart out.

[legendarytragedynacho]

Mars Needs Women (1968) Dir, Larry Buchanan

[nonolithic]

Fire Heart

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Cat-Women of the Moon (1953)

[cultofthewyrm]

by Tian Kou

[technicallyclassyperfection]

Via print:

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[elericelery]

Clementine omg its my bestie clementine hiiiiii

[timetravellingkitty]

Mark my words, soon there will be a booktok trend along the lines of "romance is the girl genre, only men read philosophy and sci-fi 😒 this book is about the Naxalite movement but I'm just a silly lil girl I don't know what they're talking about 😵 can someone explain Crime and Punishment so that the girls can understand?"

[djquimoso]

Artwork from the collection African Queens.

[zilentis]

Some partners in crime, and in general, I needed some Mercs for my Stargrave crew.

I hardly ever do green minis, so these aren’t up to par with my usual standards for miniatures, but I think they look consistent and alright

[nonolithic]

Amped

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Cat-Women of the Moon (1953)

[cultofthewyrm]

by Marcel Mosqi

[73suggestions]

Carol Brewster as "Alpha" in Cat-Women of the Moon (1953)

[pacific-chrome]