Urania's Daughters / Schlobin
Urania's Daughters: A Checklist of Women Science Fiction Writers, 1692-1982 is a compilation by Roger C. Schlobin.
Scope: "The works cited have been restricted to science-fiction, book-length, English-language novels, collections, and anthologies published from 1682 to 1982." ... "[L]ists over [375] authors and over [830] titles, making it the largest checklist of women's science fiction to date."
"I must offer my apologies to those authors whose initials defied my research and remained neuter. I am also sure that after puzzling and searching long and hard among the Leslie's, Lindsay's, Vivian's, Pat's, Lee's, Carmen's, Robin's, Evelyn's, and other gender-difficult names that I have omitted authors who should have been here and included a few that should not have been."
Editions
- Starmont House, Mercer Island, Washington (1983) (Starmont Reference Guide No. 1, ISSN 0738-0127)
Works cited
Schlobin listed several sources and credited earlier work.
- L. W. Currey, Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors
- E. F. Bleiler, The Checklist of Science-Fiction and Supernatural Fiction
- R. Reginald, Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature
- George Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy
- UC Riverside, Dictionary Catalogue of the J. Lloyd Eaton Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature
- Daphne Patai, "British and American Utopias by Women (1836-1979): Part I" in Alternative Futures (women's issue, Spring/Summer 1981, pp. 184-206
- Donald H. Tuck, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy
Cited that earlier more selective versions of the checklist were published in
- The Future Females (ed. Marlene S. Barr)
- New Moon (ed. Janice Bogstad)
- Extrapolation (ed. Mary T. Brizzi)