Can anyone recommend some SciFi books with well written female characters?
I’ve recently read Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie and am looking for well constructed, non male, well thought out characters.
Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds
Honor Harrington or Safehold by David Weber.
I had so much fun reading The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty. It is squarely in the fantasy genre. Not SciFi like you’re asking for. But I can’t recommend it enough.
Amina is a very rare character: she is simultaneously an older woman, a single mom, a pirate, a lover, and a legendary hero. Chakraborty does an admirable job of balancing all these different aspects of her main character’s personality. The story is bombastic and fun, the supporting characters are charming, the setting is historical and fantastic all at once. This book is incredible, I could not put it down.
I have heard good things about the audio book. I read it in text form though, so I can’t confirm that myself.
- Silo series by Hugh Howie
- Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi (Young adult dystopian scifi)
- Across the Universe by Beth Revis (Young adult)
- Bird Box by Josh Malerman (apocalyptic thriller)
- Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson (fantasy, not scifi, but I’m digging up stuff from when I used to read more prolifically)
- Revelation Space series by Alastair Reynolds. I read this so long ago, and I feel like their were some great female characters, but I can’t remember if any were the protagonist. Each novel shifts around.
The “Broken Earth” series by N.K Jemesin
