List of SF featuring women of color as protagonists
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- Zainab Amadahy, The Moons of Palmares
- Patricia Anthony. "White Boy" in Eating Memories
- Eleanor Arnason. A Woman of the Iron People (Li Lixia, an anthropologist of Pacific Asian descent)
- Elizabeth Bear. Jenny Casey in Hammered and sequels
- 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)
- F. M. Busby. Zelde M'Tana (Black female heroine)
- Octavia Butler. Parable of the Sower & Parable of the Talents - Lauren Oya Olamina
- plus just about all of her other work.
- Arthur C. Clarke, and G. Lee. Rendezvous with Rama and sequels: Rama 2; The Garden of Rama; Rama Revealed: Nicole (last name?), main protagonist
- Samuel R. Delany. Babel-17 (Rydra Wong) and Neveryóna (Pryn)
- 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
- Virginia Hamilton. Justice and Her Brothers, Dustland, and The Gathering (Justice)
- Nalo Hopkinson. Brown Girl in the Ring (Afro-Canadian protagonist) and Midnight Robber (Afro-Caribbean descendants on a colonized world)
- 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)
- Justine Larbalestier's Magic trilogy, with a young protagonist who is half Aboriginal Australian)
- Ursula K. Le Guin. The Telling (2000) (Sutty Indo-Canadian protagonist)
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- Louise Marley. The Terrorists of Irustan (Zahra Ibsada and Ishi, Arab Muslim residents of a colonized world)
- Shani Mootoo. Cereus Blooms at Night
- Andre Norton
- Nnedima Okorafor-Mbachu. Zahrah the Windseeker, The Shadow Speaker YA science fiction on a planet where everyone is of African descent.
- Marge Piercy. 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. The Fifth Sacred Thing (Madrone, the Latina protagonist)
- Tricia Sullivan. 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 themselves, a Storm miniseries, and some individual Storm-centered episodes; and the movies (although she wasn't a protagonist in the movies)
- Sarah Zettel. Fool's War (Katmer Al Shei, an Arab Muslim starship captain)
- "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)