The University of South Carolina Thomas Cooper Library currently has a small display on "Women in Science Fiction: From Frankenstein to Dungeons and Dragons." (Click on thumbnails below to see larger versions).
It consists of two upright display cases and three flat ones just inside the doors to the right.
U1: Margaret Cavendish, Mary Shelley, and Jane Webb. (The Frankenstein in the middle is a facsimile)
F1: Pulp Fiction & Women in the Early 20th Century: Francis Stevens, C.L. Moore, Leah Bodine Drake, Naomi Mitchison, and Leigh Brackett.
F2: The Golden Age of Female Science Fiction: Andre Norton, Margaret Atwood, C.J. Cherryh, Joanna Russ, Ursula LeGuin, Charlie Jane Anders, and Octavia E. Butler.
U2: The Women of Dungeons and Dragons (detail below).
F3: Madeleine L'Engle, Lois Lowry, Suzanne Collins, Rainbow Rowell, Erin Entrada Kelly, Nalo Hopkinson, and Namina Forna
Here is the D&D one in detail:
From top shelf to bottom:
It consists of two upright display cases and three flat ones just inside the doors to the right.
U1: Margaret Cavendish, Mary Shelley, and Jane Webb. (The Frankenstein in the middle is a facsimile)
F1: Pulp Fiction & Women in the Early 20th Century: Francis Stevens, C.L. Moore, Leah Bodine Drake, Naomi Mitchison, and Leigh Brackett.
F2: The Golden Age of Female Science Fiction: Andre Norton, Margaret Atwood, C.J. Cherryh, Joanna Russ, Ursula LeGuin, Charlie Jane Anders, and Octavia E. Butler.
U2: The Women of Dungeons and Dragons (detail below).
F3: Madeleine L'Engle, Lois Lowry, Suzanne Collins, Rainbow Rowell, Erin Entrada Kelly, Nalo Hopkinson, and Namina Forna
Here is the D&D one in detail:
From top shelf to bottom:
- The Vale of the Mage (WG12) by Jean Rabe
- The Demon Hand by Rose Estes
- Quag Keep by Andre Norton
- Isle of Illusion by Madeleine Simon
- Dragons of Autumn Twilight by Margaret by Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman
- The Black Wing by Mary Kirchoff
- Stormblade by Nancy Variant Berberick
- The Dark Queen by Michael & Teri Williams
- Death of a Darklord by Laurell K. Hamilton
- Vampire of the Mists by Christie Golden
- I Strahd by P.N. Elrod
- Ravenloft II: The House on Gryphon Hill (I10) by Tracy and Laura Hickman
- The Wyvern's Spur by Kate Novak and Jeff Grubb
- The Radiant Dragon by Elaine Cunningham
- Red Mage by Jean Rabe
- Cinnabar Shadows by Lynn Abbey
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