![]() ![]() Here are 27 female authors who've conquered sci-fi and fantasy. Non-member price: 54.99 Try for 0. Rowling ( Harry Potter), Margaret Atwood ( The Handmaid's Tale), and Diana Gabaldon ( Outlander) has inspired some of the most popular films and television of recent years, but there are countless others who fly slightly more under the radar just waiting for their stories to become the next big thing. Dune is an audiobook that listeners should be wary of - it’s the first in a twelve-book series, and once you start you may not want to stop. The article says, "Have a wander through the sci-fi and fantasy section of your local bookstore: How many of these books' authors are female? Yet these are where the big movie ideas come from." Well, actually, quite a lot of the authors are female (and many of them already have sold the film/TV rights to their books). Consequently, a much-maligned National Review article, which dismissed the Bechdel Test and wrote off an absence of women in blockbuster films as a result of the lack of women writing blockbuster-worthy stories, had us raising our eyebrows. Here at EW, we're always looking for the next great sci-fi or fantasy epic. ![]()
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