Anne McCaffrey's Women

[ailbhe]

Summary reposted from elsewhere:

Look! I am a feisty and independent heroine with real dialogue and plot-centric actions! Whoops, there's a man, I'm a sharp-tongued but essentially brainless vagina on a stick.

Comments

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

There is some better stuff being written now. Tammy Pierce has made it her goal to write heroes that young women and girls can identify with. And her stuff is actually fun. (Plus, she is personally awesome.) In adult fiction, Jo Walton (papersky) writes three-dimensional characters, about half of whom are female, and so does Elizabeth Bear. Just to go with people on my friends list.

[libellum.livejournal.com]

Seconded Tamora Pierce and Elizabeth Bear for well-rounded female characters. Ursula le Guin's later stuff is also excellent - by which I mean anything she wrote after Tehanu.