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)
Women warrior groups named after Earth amazons
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
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