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)

Tribes of women warriors

• Allegra, Donna. "A Toast of Babatine." Sinister Wisdom (#34) Berkeley, CA (1988). [egalitarian woman-only society]

• Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress series of anthologies and Darkover series
• --. The Shattered Chain (Daw, 1975) (Darkover)
• Carr, Jayge. Leviathan's Deep (1979). Not human Amazons, but another species in which the women are the dominant sex, and the fighters.
• Charnas, Suzy McKee. Motherlines (1978)
• --. The Furies
• --. The Conqueror's Child
• Flynn Connolly's The Rising of the Moon

• Fletcher, Jane. The World Celaeno Chose (Dimsdale: London, 1999) - features an all-woman world with several warrior organizations
• Esther Friesner's anthology Chicks in Chainmail
• --. Did You Say Chicks?
• --. Chicks and Chained Males
• --. The Chick is In the Mail

• Merwin, Sam. Sex War.

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

• "Born in Flames"

Anthologies

• Jessica Amanda Salmonson's Amazons! anthology
• Jessica Amanda Salmonson's Amazons II anthology
• Margaret Weis. New Amazons.

See also

• The Amazon Brigade at TVTropes.org for examples of all-woman bands of warriors