Recs if you like Foreigner...

Series starting points for getting into some of the most prolific women authors in sci-fi and fantasy from the 70s-00s.

A collection of older, sometimes lesser-known, fantasy (or science fantasy) books written by incredible women and published primarily between the 1980s and early 2000s (with nods to a few older ones). In a time when female fantasy authors were few and far between, these authors carved out their own space in the genre. These stories might not be mainstream hits today, but they are full of brilliant magic, deep characters, and/or worlds that helped shape the genre. (First in Series / standalones only for now - open to suggestions!)

Your favourite female fantasy writer's... favourite female fantasy writer. Works of SFF by female writers which proved critically lauded or influential to subsequent writers.

fiction exploring translation and learning other languages (sci-fi heavy but not exclusively)

Have you canceled your Paramount subscription but still want the Star Trek feeling? These books may help.

Genres in this list include space opera, space regency, and of course, science fiction. Some of them have the space travel, some the found families/ensemble casts, some of them the alien encounters.

Good science fiction that hasn't caught on yet, used to be big but is fading from popular consciousness, or never got the recognition it deserved. Limit 1-2 books to represent each author.