Anne McCaffrey's Women

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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

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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.