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==Women warrior groups named ''after'' Earth amazons== | ==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== | ==Tribes of women warriors== | ||
* Allegra, Donna. "A Toast of Babatine." Sinister Wisdom (#34) Berkeley, CA (1988). [egalitarian woman-only society] | * Allegra, Donna. "A Toast of Babatine." Sinister Wisdom (#34) Berkeley, CA (1988). [egalitarian woman-only society] | ||
* Carr, Jayge. Leviathan's Deep (1979). Not human Amazons, but another species in which the women are the dominant sex, and the fighters. | * 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) | * Charnas, Suzy McKee. Motherlines (1978) | ||
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* [[Jessica Amanda Salmonson]]'s Amazons II anthology | * [[Jessica Amanda Salmonson]]'s Amazons II anthology | ||
* Margaret Weis. New Amazons. | * Margaret Weis. New Amazons. | ||
* Marion Zimmer Bradley's ''[[Sword and Sorceress]]'' series of anthologies | |||
* [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]]'s [[Darkover]] series anthologies | |||
* ''[[Amazons: Erotic Explorations of Ancient Myths]]'' by [[Tammy Jo Eckhart]] (Amazon erotica) | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
Revision as of 07:09, 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)
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
- Allegra, Donna. "A Toast of Babatine." Sinister Wisdom (#34) Berkeley, CA (1988). [egalitarian woman-only society]
- 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
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
- Amazons: Erotic Explorations of Ancient Myths by Tammy Jo Eckhart (Amazon erotica)
See also
- The Amazon Brigade at TVTropes.org for examples of all-woman bands of warriors