List of female pirates and thieves in SF

Thieves

• Character name - Dorothy Allison. "Ounces" in Swords of the Rainbow (The story indicates that more was to come, as did Allison, for that matter, in email some years ago. Where o where is the rest of this intriguing story? About a grimy fantasy world populated with thieves & bloodthirsty evil aristocrats, and lesbians.)
• Character name - Lauren Wright Douglas. "To Steal Your Heart Away" in Swords of the Rainbow. (Someone hires a thief, who is a lesbian, who ... )
• Character name - Lee Killough. "The Jarabon" (1981; also in Space of Her Own, edited by Shawna McCarthy, 1983)
• Character name - Tanith Lee. "Nunc Dimittis" in The Dodd, Mead Gallery of Horror, ed. by Charles L. Grant (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1983).
• Character name - Fritz Leiber. "The Two Best Thieves in Lankhmar" in Fantastic, Aug. 1968 (a Fafhrd & the Grey Mouser story)
• Alyx - Joanna Russ. The Adventures of Alyx
• Character name - Sarah Waters. Fingersmith
• Max Guevara in "Dark Angel"
• Spanner, in Nicola Griffith's Slow River
• Gwen Raiden in Angel's fourth season
• The whole crew of Firefly are thieves
• Vin in Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson

Pirates

• Elizabeth Swann in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, and more so in the sequels, Dead Man's Chest and At World's End
• Bêlit in Queen of the Black Coast by Robert E. Howard
• B. Jenet, leader of the Lilian Knights, in the King of Fighters universe

See also

• Heists and caper stories
• Cutthroat Island (not technically a SF)
• Wikipedia List of female pirates