Ursula K LeGuin?
Fiction
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Ursula K. LeGuin
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Octavia Butler
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Margaret Atwood
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Tui T. Sutherland (J Fic)
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Suzanne Collins (YA)
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Lois Lowry (YA)
Non-Fiction
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Naomi Klein
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Margaret Atwood (Massey Lecture)
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Angela Y. Davis
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Tanya Talaga
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bell hooks
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Robin Wall Kimmerer
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Ursula le Guin is a great SF writer
Mary Shelley has to be up there for inventing Sci-Fi.
Some would say that was Margaret Cavendish, 150 years earlier. Mary Shelly’s novels are and have been more popular though.
I’m going to have to read The Blazing World now. I’m surprised I haven’t heard of it.
Well, if you include Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World (1666), you would have to put Johannes Kepler’s Somnium (1634) and Lucian of Samosata’s A True Story (2nd century AD) ahead of her.
I’ve listened to “A True Story” years ago but can’t remember any of it. Reading the synopses, I think all three are closer to fantasy than Sci-Fi. So I still Put Frankenstein as the first true Sci-Fi book.
Astrid Lindgren, her books are translated to 95 different languages and sold over 160 million copies. Probably the worlds most beloved children’s book author.
Agree with all of the above, would add T. Kingfisher for fantasy, Iris Murdoch for heady philosophical fiction, Agatha Christie for murder mystery, Clarissa Pinkola Estés for empowering fables and explorations of feminine archetypes, Mary Oliver for poetry, and Lady Margaret Cavendish for a great sci-fi novel from 1666.
Marjane Satrapi
Persepolis was intense but beautifully conveyed, full agree.
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Le Guin
Love N.K. Jemisin’s books
If you like Star Trek:
DC Fontana
Probably Agatha Christie
I’m disappointed that no one has mentioned Lois McMaster Bujold yet.
I don’t know about “of all time” but “The Coming Plague” by Laurie Garrett should be required reading.
Toni Morrison
Angela Carter
Virginia Wolfe
Shirley Jackson
Octavia Butler
