Don't get me started on the strong, mature women leaders in sci-fi thing. If she's strong then she's ugly. If she's pretty, then she's young. If she's pretty and strong and mature, then they have to make her seriously flawed somehow--like totally insane.
I *really* think you'd like David Weber's Honor Harrinton series. In the first book, she's sent to a dead end posting because she made an admiral look bad and she's given an *impossible* set of duties to perform. Instead of whining about it (which is what her brand new crew wants to do, as well as blame her for being there) she grits her teeth and *gets it done*. Her crew goes from resenting her to hating her to being willing to die for her. Really great space opera stuff too.:-)
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2008-09-27 02:21 am (UTC)Don't get me started on the strong, mature women leaders in sci-fi thing. If she's strong then she's ugly. If she's pretty, then she's young. If she's pretty and strong and mature, then they have to make her seriously flawed somehow--like totally insane.
I *really* think you'd like David Weber's Honor Harrinton series. In the first book, she's sent to a dead end posting because she made an admiral look bad and she's given an *impossible* set of duties to perform. Instead of whining about it (which is what her brand new crew wants to do, as well as blame her for being there) she grits her teeth and *gets it done*. Her crew goes from resenting her to hating her to being willing to die for her. Really great space opera stuff too.:-)