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Filling the gap between other lists, this is sf and f written by women between 1980 and 2000.

(rules: author identifying as woman, books published between 1980-2000)

See: Speculative_Fiction_Classics_pre_1980_by_Female_Authors for earlier books

More recent: Future_Classics_Best_science_fiction_by_women_written_2001-2010, Not_so_Invisible_Ninjas(2014-2015), and so on.
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