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* [[Xena: Warrior Princess]] - see [[Amazons on Xena & Hercules]] | * [[Xena: Warrior Princess]] - see [[Amazons on Xena & Hercules]] | ||
* Hercules movie (1950s) | * Hercules movie (1950s) | ||
* ''[[Amazons: Erotic Explorations of Ancient Myths]]'' by [[Tammy Jo Eckhart]] (Amazon erotica) | |||
* Merwin, Sam. ''[[Sex War]]'' | |||
==Women warrior groups named ''after'' Earth amazons== | ==Women warrior groups named ''after'' Earth amazons== | ||
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==Tribes of women warriors== | ==Tribes of women warriors== | ||
* Allegra, | * [[Donna Allegra]], "[[A Toast of Babatine]]" Sinister Wisdom (#34) Berkeley, CA (1988). [egalitarian woman-only society] | ||
* Carr, | * [[Jayge Carr]], ''[[Leviathan's Deep]]'' (1979). Not human Amazons, but another species in which the women are the dominant sex, and the fighters. | ||
* Charnas, | * [[Suzy McKee Charnas]], ''[[Motherlines]]'' (1978) | ||
* | * [[Suzy McKee Charnas]], ''[[The Furies]]'' | ||
* | * [[Suzy McKee Charnas]], ''[[The Conqueror's Child]]'' | ||
* Flynn Connolly' | * [[Flynn Connolly]], ''[[The Rising of the Moon]]'' | ||
* [[Jane Fletcher]], ''[[The World Celaeno Chose]]'' (Dimsdale: London, 1999) - features an all-woman world with several warrior organizations | |||
* [[Jane Yolen]], ''[[Sister Light, Sister Dark]]'' and ''[[White Jenna]]'' | |||
* | |||
* "[[Born in Flames]]" | * "[[Born in Flames]]" | ||
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* Marion Zimmer Bradley's ''[[Sword and Sorceress]]'' series of anthologies | * Marion Zimmer Bradley's ''[[Sword and Sorceress]]'' series of anthologies | ||
* [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]]'s [[Darkover]] series anthologies | * [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]]'s [[Darkover]] series anthologies | ||
* ' | * Esther Friesner's anthology Chicks in Chainmail | ||
* --. Did You Say Chicks? | |||
* --. Chicks and Chained Males | |||
* --. The Chick is In the Mail | |||
Revision as of 07:12, 12 April 2008
The Amazons were a mythical or semi-historical tribe of women warriors. They have often been portrayed in fiction, as in Xena: Warrior Princess, and have had many characters and groups named after them.
Semi-historical portrayals
These are semi-historical portrayals: SF-based, but at least intending to be more or less, sort of, about the fabled / historical actual Amazons.
- Xena: Warrior Princess - see Amazons on Xena & Hercules
- Hercules movie (1950s)
- Amazons: Erotic Explorations of Ancient Myths by Tammy Jo Eckhart (Amazon erotica)
- Merwin, Sam. Sex War
Women warrior groups named after Earth amazons
- Free Amazons in Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover universe; see particularly The Shattered Chain
Tribes of women warriors
- Donna Allegra, "A Toast of Babatine" Sinister Wisdom (#34) Berkeley, CA (1988). [egalitarian woman-only society]
- Jayge Carr, Leviathan's Deep (1979). Not human Amazons, but another species in which the women are the dominant sex, and the fighters.
- Suzy McKee Charnas, Motherlines (1978)
- Suzy McKee Charnas, The Furies
- Suzy McKee Charnas, The Conqueror's Child
- Flynn Connolly, The Rising of the Moon
- Jane Fletcher, The World Celaeno Chose (Dimsdale: London, 1999) - features an all-woman world with several warrior organizations
Anthologies
- Jessica Amanda Salmonson's Amazons! anthology
- Jessica Amanda Salmonson's Amazons II anthology
- Margaret Weis. New Amazons.
- Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress series of anthologies
- Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover series anthologies
- Esther Friesner's anthology Chicks in Chainmail
- --. Did You Say Chicks?
- --. Chicks and Chained Males
- --. The Chick is In the Mail
See also
- The Amazon Brigade at TVTropes.org for examples of all-woman bands of warriors