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Science Fiction featuring Female Authors and/or Strong Female Characters Catherine Asaro—The Veiled Web (and others) Kage Baker—In the Garden of Iden (1st in The Company series) Marion Zimmer Bradley—The Planet Savers (1st in her Darkover series) Lois McMaster Bujold—Shards of Honor (1st in Vorkosigan Saga) Octavia Butler—Dawn: Exogenesis (1st in Exogenesis series) Suzanne Collins—The Hunger Games (1st in Hunger Games trilogy) Ally Condi—Matched (1st in Matched trilogy) Brina Courtney—Reveal Cory Doctorow—For the Win (and others) Nancy Farmer—The House of the Scorpion Mira Grant—Feed (more horror & 1st in Newsflesh series) Margaret Peterson Haddix—Among the Hidden (1st in Shadow Children series)Madeleine Tanya Huff—Valor’s Choice (1st in Confederation series) Hillary Jordan—When She Woke L’Engle—A Wrinkle in Time (1st in series) Gemma Malley—The Declaration (1st in the Declaration trilogy) Anne McCaffrey—Catalyst (1st in Barque Cats series) Myra McIntire—Hourglass Merissa Meyer—Cinder (1st in Lunar Chronicles) Patrick Ness—Chaos Walking (1st in the Chaos Walking trilogy) Andre Norton (pseudo. of Alice Mary Norton)—Star Man’s Son, 2250 A.D. Susan Beth Pfeffer—Life As We Knew It (1st in series) Philip Reeve—Fever Crumb (prequel to Hunger City Chronicles) Beth Revis—Across the Universe Adam Rex—True Meaning of Smekday Amy Kathleen Ryan—Glow John Scalzi—Zoe’s Tale Linnea Sinclair—Gabriel’s Ghost William Sleator—Test and/or House of Stairs Sherri S. Tepper—Grass (1st in Marjorie Westriding trilogy) James Tiptree (pseudo. of Alice Bradley Sheldon)—Short Stories David Weber—A Beautiful Friendship (1st in the Stephanie Harrington series (Teen)) David Weber—On Basilisk Station (1st in Honor Harrington series) Scott Westerfeld—Uglies (1st in the Uglies series) Connie Willis—Bellwether (and others) Chris Wooding—The Storm Thief Compiled by the members of the 50 Books Challenge Facebook Group, 2012. .

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