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)
- 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, 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":
References
See also
- The Amazon Brigade at TVTropes.org for examples of all-woman bands of warriors