Yesterday was International Women Day.
On my Twitter account, I regularly play "one like = one recommendation", so it was the perfect day to do one like = one recommendation of a woman writing SFF.
In the end, the list was 101 names strong.
They are all gathered here, in no particular order.

I have reviewed a fair number of the books mentioned here. You can find them in the index.

I hope you'll find some great writers you'll enjoy reading!

Back in 2018, we had a crazy idea: some Kind of Awards, with some readers and/or book bloggers as jurors, determining Subjectively and in a merry Chaos what we had liked.

Having had tremendous fun doing it, we had to do it again in 2019.
Our nominations are in, so click read more to see which SFF stories made it to the first round!

Earlier this year, I went to Torino (Italy), a brilliant city I recommend visiting.

But, unbeknownst to my friends who didn't know what they were in for, I found out that there was a scifi and fantasy bookshop there.
Ensued C. being lost in it, while said friends escaped, disgusted, because they were tired of waiting.

It started in January as a mad idea.
But we made it through.
We read a lot, we debated a lot, we voted for a first round and got our very worthy finalists. Then we debated some more and we voted for the second round.
After 8 months, the Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards have chosen the winners!
We announced them at Nine Worlds, on Saturday 11 August 2018. And, as Imyril said, it was a bit chaotic, because, obviously, it had to be!

I have been a faithful follower of the Clarke Award for years. Some shortlisted books and winners I have loved (and even reviewed on this blog), others I didn't like. But hey! That happens. No novel is universally loved.
This year though, I have felt underwhelmed by the shortlist. This was before I reached Dreams before the Start of Time by Anne Charnock. And that's when everything went wrong for me.
And then it got worse, because it went on winning the award.