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Have most of you not read any science fiction since the 70's? Those are mostly 60's and 70's writers, people who wrote at a time when female authors in the genre typically wrote under initials or male pseudonyms.
Sly, regarding Collins, while I agree her best known work centers around a Battle Royale scenario, Battle Royale was such an important work that people can know the concept without having the literary background on it. Someone today could write cyberpunk without having read Gibson or Sterling or space opera without having read Heinlein or Alan Dean Foster or adult-oriented swords and sorcery without having read George R. R. Martin. But they likely couldn't do those things if giants had not come before them to put those ideas out there.
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