Rachel Mansour

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Rachel Mansour is one of the main characters in Singularity Sky by Charles Stross, and also an important character in Iron Sunrise.

She is an enhanced 160+ year old woman, who works for the U.N.--an Earth-based agency that coordinates various functions.(SS) She works to avert terrorist strikes, and has saved millions of people's lives.(SS)

Notably, she is the only female in Singularity Sky, which takes place primarily in a sexist Victorian-style society, in large part aboard a military vessel.