Honorary names

Many things, people, animals, locations, natural features, buildings, roads, etc., are named after people to honor them. Who decides who's worthy of honoring, and thus whose names are magnified, is of course a political process.

Not surprisingly, it turns out that most things that are named after people are named after men.

Here is a list of SFnal things named after women:

• The craters on Venus
• The Sunburst Award, named after Phyllis Gotlieb's first published novel, Sunburst
• The James Tiptree, Jr. Award, named after Alice Sheldon's pseudonym
• The Kindred Award, named after Octavia Butler's novel Kindred

A few SFnal things named after other non-men:

• The Carl Brandon Society, named after Carl Brandon, fictional person