Characters in a work whose gender is female.
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Desperate to find comic, features female protagonist, pretty sure a goddess?
I've been searching for a urban fantasy comic/graphic novel series that I used to read when i was younger, in the last 8 years. It featured a female protagonist who was a goddess I'm pretty sure. It ...
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A fantasy book where a young shepherd girl who comes back to her village to find everyone dead by plague
It was a book I read many years ago. It focused around a young shepherd girl who comes back to her village to find everyone dead by plague. She has innate magic ability which she then uses to ...
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Female protagonist that is sick in one reality and well in another
I read a few books in a series of novels with a female protagonist. She was either severely injured or very ill in 'our world', but she was able to travel to another dimension. They referred to the ...
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Was the nuanced treatment of Uhura a deliberate statement on civil rights and women's liberation?
The wikipedia page in Uhura indicates that she was a role model for African American women and that she...
...was an important part of the original series' multicultural crew [1] and one of the ...
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Fantasy Novel - Female Protagonist
I'm trying to remember the title of a fantasy novel I read years ago. I remember reading it in paperback format in the early to mid 90's, so I'm guessing it was written in the 80's or 90's. The ...
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How could Samantha Carter 's words about the Gulf War be true?
During the famous Briefing Room introduction scene of Samantha Carter in the season one episode "Children Of The Gods" she mentioned spending over 100 hours in enemy airspace
during the Desert Storm. ...
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Was there a common influence for the characters Leela on Futurama and Aeryn on Farscape
I recently started watching the series Farscape and something that struck me were the similarities between the character Aeryn and Leela from Futurama, detailed below.
Both shows were made in 1999, ...
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How could I find fantasy stories with all female characters?
I would be interested in reading a fantasy novel with all-female characters. Is there a good resource for finding such stories? (Or more generally any written science fiction or fantasy with ...
