List of SF featuring women of color as protagonists

2009-03-03T15:45:40Z

Thene: adding Tricia Sullivan's books

{{EFCindex}}{{WOC}}* [[Zainab Amadahy]] . [[The Moons of Palmares]]
* [[Patricia Anthony]]. "[[White Boy]]" in Eating Memories
* [[Elizabeth Bear]]. [[Jenny Casey]] in [[Hammered]]
* [[Gregory Benford]], . Cosm (African-American female physicist)
* [[Lizzi Borden]] . "[[Born in Flames]]" (1982 film)
* [[Dorothy Bryant]]. [The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You]] (1971); also published as The Comforter
* [[Steven Bury]]. (pseud. for [[Neal Stephenson]] & his uncle) [[Interface]] (Black woman plays central role in later part of novel)
* Busby, F.M. [[Zelde M'Tana]] (Black female heroine)
* [[Octavia Butler]]. [[Parable of the Sower]] - [[Lauren Oya Olamina]]
*: — [[Xenogenesis trilogy]]:
*:* [[Dawn]]
*:* [[Imago]]
*:* [[Adulthood Rites]]
*: — ''[[Kindred (novel)|Kindred]]''
:: plus just about all of her other work.
* [[Arthur C. Clarke]], and G. Lee. [[Rendezvous with Rama]] sequels: [[Rama 2]; [[The Garden of Rama]]; [[Rama Revealed]]: Nicole (last name?), main protagonist
* [[Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni]], . [[The Mistress of Spices]] (Indian woman)
* [[L. Timmel Duchamp]], [[Tsunami]] (Celia, a lawyer and activist)
* [[Jewelle Gomez]] . [[The Gilda Stories]] (Black lesbian vampire)
* [[Hiromi Goto]]. [[The Kappa Child]] (2001) (Japanese/Canadian woman)
* [[Colin Greenland]], [[Tabitha Jute series]] (Black lesbian spaceship captain)
* [[Andrea Hairston]], [[Mindscape]] - many characters
* [[Nalo Hopkinson]]'s [[Brown Girl in the Ring]] (Afro-Canadian protagonist)
* [[Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain]] . "[[Sultana's Dream]]" (1905) (Indian woman protagonist; a short story in which the Sultana visits Ladyland, where purdah has been reversed to the great benefit of the land)
* [[Ursula K Le Guin]], . [[The Telling]] (2000) ([[Sutty]] Indo-Canadian protagonist)
* [[Shani Mootoo]] . [[Cereus Blooms at Night]]
* [[Andre Norton]]
* [[Nnedima Okorafor-Mbachu]]. ''Zahrah the Wanderer,'' ''The Shadow Speaker'' YA science fiction on a planet where everyone is of African descent.
* [[Marge Piercy]]'s [[Woman on the Edge of Time]] (Latina protagonist)
* [[Steve Perry]] [[Matadora]] (1986) (Black woman protagonist)
* [[Marta Randall]]. ''Journey'' and ''Dangerous Games.'' Two-volume family saga. The central family, the Kennerins, are of Asian extraction, and several women in the family are major protagonists, including Mish (the mother) and Quilla and Meya (two of her daughters).
* [[Geoff Ryman]]. Air (2005)
* [[Starhawk]]'s [[The Fifth Sacred Thing]] [latina protagonist]
* [[Tricia Sullivan]]'s [[Maul]] (Jewish-Korean protagonist), [[Double Vision]] (Black protagonist), and [[Lethe]] (Australian Chinese protagonist)
* [[Sheri S. Tepper]]. [[The Fresco]] (2000) (working class latina woman)
* [[John Varley]],. The Gaean Trilogy: Titan, Wizard, Demon. [[Cirocco Jones]]. [mixed-race woman protagonist]
* "[[The X-Men]]" works featuring [[Storm]]: The X-Men books itself, a Storm miniseries, and some individual Storm-centered episodes; and the movies (although she wasn't a protagonist in the movies)
* "[[Strange Days]]" [Angela Bassett kicks ass but is not really the protagonist; however, she is the ''hero'']

==See also==
* [[List of SF featuring women of color as protagonists]] (for adult protagonists)
* [[List of YA SF featuring heroines of color]] (for YA protagonists)
* [[List of female characters of color]] (for other notable characters that are not necessarily protagonists)

[[Category:Characters by ethnicity]]

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List of SF featuring women of color as protagonists