| 1980-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Ginungagap |
Michael Swanwick |
|
|
female protagonist (1), strong female character (1), aliens (1), black holes (1), interstellar travel (1), interspecies communication (1), cat (1), suspicion (1), human duplication (1), identity (1), cats (1)
|
| 1980-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Our Lady of the Sauropods |
Robert Silverberg |
|
|
fossil dna (1), cloning (1), dinosaurs (1), female protagonist (1), orbital habitat (1), group consciousness (1), first person point of view (1)
|
| 1980-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Secrets of the Heart |
Charles L. Grant |
|
|
horror (1), contemporary (1), first person point of view (1), child protagonist (1), female protagonist (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1), psychic powers (1)
|
| 1980-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Unicorn Tapestry |
Suzy McKee Charnas |
|
|
strong female character (1), female protagonist (1), vampire (1), psychoanalyst (1), predator (1), contemporary (1), only Earth (1)
|
| 1979-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Agbewe's Sword |
Charles R. Saunders |
|
|
fantasy (1), Ahosi (1), African (1), female warrior (1), female protagonist (1), magic sword (1), Warfare (1), storm calling (1)
|
| 1979-12-00 |
ANTHOLOGY |
English |
Amazons! |
Jessica Amanda Salmonson |
|
|
female protagonist (1), fantasy (1), warriors (1), magic (1), sword and sorcery (1), original anthology (1)
|
| 1979-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Bones for Dulath |
Robin Hobb |
|
|
poisoning (1), alien (1), preindustrial (1), female protagonist (1), male-female buddies (1), combat with alien (1)
|
| 1979-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Can These Bones Live? |
Ted Reynolds |
|
|
extinction (1), alien species (1), resurrection (1), female protagonist (1), far future (1), Earth (1), dreams (1), values (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1979-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Falcon Blood |
Andre Norton |
|
|
regicide (1), misogyny (1), shipwreck (1), sorcery (1), ruined castle (1), falconry (1), female protagonist (1), Witch World (1), frozen in time (1)
|
| 1979-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Jane Saint's Travails (Part One) |
Josephine Saxton |
|
|
parallel worlds (1), female protagonist (1), revolutionary (1), sorcery (1), romantic illusion (1), shapechanging (1), iconoclasm (1)
|
| 1979-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Morrien's Bitch |
Janet Fox |
|
|
female protagonist (1), fantasy (1), Warfare (1), subterranean (1), vengeance (1), romance (1), swords, no sorcery (1)
|
| 1979-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Northern Chess |
Tanith Lee |
|
|
magic (1), haunted castle (1), medieval (1), army (1), wandering adventurer (1), female protagonist (1), curse (1)
|
| 1979-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Sentences of Death |
John Brunner |
|
|
palace intrigue (1), vengeance (1), wizard (1), strong female character (1), female protagonist (1), sword and sorcery (1)
|
| 1979-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Dreamstone |
C. J. Cherryh |
|
|
dreams (1), sword and sorcery (1), forest (1), love (1), music (1), barbarism (1), high fantasy (1), vengeance (1), supernatural female (1), female protagonist (1)
|
| 1979-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Sorrows of Witches |
Margaret St. Clair |
|
|
fantasy (1), necromancy (1), queen (1), female protagonist (1), love (1), jealousy (1), sacrifice (1)
|
| 1979-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Woman Who Loved the Moon |
Elizabeth A. Lynn |
|
|
female protagonist (1), warrior princesses (1), moon goddess (1), love (1), enchanted cave beneath the sea (1), legend (1)
|
| 1979-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Wolves of Nakesht |
Janrae Frank |
|
|
werewolves (1), matriarchy (1), exile (1), woman warrior (1), woman disguised as man (1), sword and sorcery (1), high fantasy (1), female protagonist (1)
|
| 1979-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Woman of the White Waste |
T. J. Morgan |
|
|
rape (1), sacred bear (1), arctic (1), magic sword (1), sword and sorcery (1), high fantasy (1), female protagonist (1), vengeance (1), misfit (1)
|
| 1978-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Born Again |
Sharon N. Farber |
|
|
microbiology (1), female protagonist (1), first person point of view (1), humans only (1), contemporary (1), science fiction (1), vampire (1)
|
| 1978-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Mister Magister |
Thomas F. Monteleone |
|
|
child protagonist (1), contemporary (1), moral lesson (1), killing (1), alien (1), carnival game (1), aliens among us (1), female protagonist (1)
|
| 1977-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Air Raid |
John Varley |
|
|
time travel (2), into-movie (1), first person point of view (1), female protagonist (1), postapocalyptic earth (1), time police (1), holocaust (1), genetic engineering (1), science fiction (1), mutants (1)
|
| 1974-06-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Rings of Ice |
Piers Anthony |
|
|
LGBTQ (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1), climate disaster (1), female protagonist (1), contemporary (1), science fiction (1), climate engineering (1), climate change (1), LGBTQ+ (1)
|
| 1974-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Stormy Weather |
Daniel P. Dern |
|
|
female protagonist (1), alien contact (1), introversion (1), love (1), contemporary (1), psychology (1)
|
| 1973-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand |
Vonda N. McIntyre |
|
|
snakes (1), healer (1), strong female character (1), female protagonist (1), tribal (1), nonindustrial (1), science fiction (1), animal Coaches (1)
|
| 1973-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Whimper of Whipped Dogs |
Harlan Ellison |
|
|
female protagonist (1), fantasy (1), New York City (1), 1970s (1), horror (1)
|
| 1968-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Ernest and the Machine God |
Harlan Ellison |
|
|
fantasy (1), contemporary (1), female protagonist (1), North Carolina (1), jealous god (1)
|
| 1968-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Village Swindler |
Brian W. Aldiss |
|
|
contemporary (1), scheduled caste (1), india (1), train (1), heart attack (1), Englishwoman (1), Hindu (1), doctor (1), plague (1), smallpox (1), beggars (1), untouchables (1), heart transplant (1), culture shock (1), female protagonist (1)
|
| 1966-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Crying of Lot 49 |
Thomas Pynchon |
|
|
novel within novella range (1), Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 1946-1987 (1), stamps (1), contemporary (1), wife (1), conspiracies (1), postal delivery (1), Southern California (1), executing wills (1), satire (1), politics (1), history (1), female protagonist (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1)
|
| 1965-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Sleep No More |
James H. Schmitz |
|
|
telepaths (1), alien animals (1), mysterious conspiracy (1), strong female character (1), teleportation (1), female protagonist (1)
|
| 1963-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Down to the Worlds of Men |
Alexei Panshin |
|
|
Merril09 (1), generation ship (1), first person point of view (1), female protagonist (1), strong female character (1), rite of passage (1), agrarian planet (1), xenophobia (1), population control (1)
|
| 1961-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Haunted Woodshed |
Harold R. Daniels |
|
|
murder (1), mystery (1), female protagonist (1), contemporary (1), haunting (1), new england (1), woodshed (1)
|
| 1960-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
From Shadowed Places |
Richard Matheson |
|
|
fantasy (1), juju (1), curse (1), female protagonist (1), contemporary (1), africa (1), USA (1), Ngombo (witch doctor) (1)
|
| 1960-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Step IV |
Rosel George Brown |
|
|
war between the sexes (1), ethics (1), only humans (1), interstellar travel (1), parthenogenesis (1), love (1), trust (1), female protagonist (1)
|
| 1960-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Face of Helene Bournouw |
Harlan Ellison |
|
|
contemporary (1), New York City (1), female protagonist (1), demonic handiwork (1), beauty (1), destructive relationships (1), fantasy (1), horror (1), into-tv (1), The Hunger (1)
|
| 1958-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Little Old Miss Macbeth |
Fritz Leiber |
|
|
near future (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1), female protagonist (1), elderly protagonist (1), post-apocalyptic (1), Pittsburgh (1)
|
| 1958-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Unwillingly to School |
Pauline Ashwell |
|
|
Merril04 (1), science fiction (1), first person point of view (1), female protagonist (1), strong female character (1), dyslexia (1), interstellar travel (1), farming (1), mining (1), university (1), sociological research (1), humorous (1), education (1)
|
| 1955-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Telephone |
Mary Treadgold |
|
|
messages from beyond the grave (1), infidelity (1), england (1), female protagonist (1), ghost (1), contemporary (1), first person point of view (1)
|
| 1954-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
All Summer in a Day |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
rain (1), bullying (1), into-tv (1), science fiction (1), venus (1), Poetry (1), children (1), sadness (1), loss (1), gloom (1), sun (1), female protagonist (1), child protagonist (1)
|
| 1953-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
I Can't Wear White |
Suzanne Pickett |
|
|
fantasy (1), contemporary (1), phantom hitchhiker (1), romance (1), father (1), first person point of view (1), female protagonist (1)
|
| 1952-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Christmas Meeting |
Rosemary Timperley |
|
|
time slip (1), female protagonist (1), first person point of view (1), Christmas (1), contemporary (1), ghosts (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1952-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Command Performance |
Walter M. Miller, Jr. |
|
|
telepathy (1), female protagonist (1), conformity (1), loneliness (1), privacy (1), contemporary (1)
|
| 1952-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Love |
Richard Wilson |
|
|
mystical healing (1), blindness (1), dog (1), mars (1), human-alien love (1), female protagonist (1)
|
| 1951-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Little Journey |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
space vehicle malfunction (1), journey of spiritual discovery (1), only humans (1), fraud (1), elderly protagonist (1), interplanetary travel (1), female protagonist (1)
|
| 1951-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Mars and Miss Pickerell (excerpt) |
Ellen MacGregor |
|
|
only humans (1), contemporary (1), science fiction (1), juvenile (1), humorous (1), Rocket to Mars (1), Mars exploration (1), female protagonist (1)
|
| 1950-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Ylla |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
female protagonist (1), married couple (1), near future (1), only aliens (1), fantasy (1), mars (1), first contact (1), precognition (1)
|
| 1947-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Kiki |
Forrest J. Ackerman |
|
|
lesbian (1), butch (1), femme (1), female protagonist (1), fate (1), Destiny (1), suicide (1), romance (1), luck (1)
|
| 1946-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Small Assassin |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
infants (1), motherhood (1), horror (1), contemporary (1), female protagonist (1), into-movie (1)
|
| 1946-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Threshold of Endurance |
Betsy Emmons |
|
|
fantasy (1), murder (1), contemporary (1), female protagonist (1), ghost (1), marital strife (1)
|
| 1945-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Invisible Boy |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
witchcraft (1), contemporary (1), female protagonist (1)
|
| 1942-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Beauty |
Hannes Bok |
|
|
purpose (1), self-sacrifice (1), parallel universe (1), fortuneteller (1), beauty (1), female protagonist (1), contemporary (1)
|
| 1939-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The High Places |
Frances Garfield |
|
|
fantasy (1), air travel (1), love (1), ghosts (1), 1930s (1), first person point of view (1), female protagonist (1), United States (1), dead ex-lover (1)
|
| 1935-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
What Waits in Darkness |
Loretta Burrough |
|
|
dead fiance (1), murder (1), female protagonist (1), recurring dreams (1), marriage (1), contemporary (1), Maine (1)
|
| 1921-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Villa Désirée |
May Sinclair |
|
|
fantasy (1), ghosts (1), haunted house (1), murder (1), female protagonist (1), French Riviera (1)
|
| 1886-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A White Heron |
Sarah Orne Jewett |
|
|
Rural US (1), female protagonist (1), female point of view (1), introverted protagonist (1), love of nature (1), ornithologist (1), white heron (1), infatuation (1), choice (1)
|
| 1794-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Mysteries of Udolpho |
Ann Radcliffe |
|
|
Librivox (1), Google Books (1), gothic romance (1), family (1), 18th century (1), France (1), italy (1), castles (1), romance (1), female protagonist (1), morality (1), polite society, (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1)
|
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