Sarah Antoinette LeFanu (born 6 August 1953) is a Scottish author and academic.
She worked as an editor for the Women's Press, and taught classes on feminism and science fiction at the City Lit Centre in London.
[2] She edited the 1985 volume Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind, and in 1988 she published In the Chinks of the World Machine: Feminism and Science Fiction, an analysis of contemporary science-fiction writers, particularly women.
Prominent among these were Suzy McKee Charnas, Ursula K. Le Guin, Joanna Russ, and James Tiptree Jr.[1][3] Reviewing the volume for Science Fiction Studies, Veronica Hollinger wrote that it was "detailed and wide-ranging, frequently incisive, and always entertaining".
[4] In 2020, LeFanu published Something of Themselves, a biographical volume about Arthur Conan Doyle, Mary Kingsley, and Rudyard Kipling in South Africa in 1900 during the Boer War.