Amazons

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)
• Sam Merwin, 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

• Jane Yolen, Sister Light, Sister Dark and White Jenna

• "Born in Flames"

YA/Children's

• How the Amazon Queen Fought the Prince of Egypt (written & illustrated) by Tamara Bower (2005)

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, esp. Free Amazons of Darkover (free amazon stories show up throughout the series but this volume is concentrated)
• Esther Friesner, Chicks in Chainmail series of anthologies, sometimes described as "amazon comedy" or "amazon humor":
  • Chicks in Chainmail
  • Did You Say Chicks?
  • Chicks and Chained Males
  • The Chick is In the Mail
  • Turn the Other Chick

References

• The Encyclopedia of Amazons ed. by Jessica Amanda Salmonson (1991)
• On the Trail of the Women Warriors: The Amazons in Myth and History by Lyn Webster Wilde (1991)
• "Egyptians and Amazons", in Story-Cycle of King Petubast

See also

• gender separatism
• women and war
• women warriors
• The Amazon Brigade at TVTropes.org for examples of all-woman bands of warriors