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Now that I've researched the field a little bit more for my novel "Staff Sergeant Belinda Watt," I'm wondering if military female romance science fiction means Arnold Schwarzenegger-muscled females wielding huge battle ax swords to slay house-trailer size monsters? Not much room, it seems, for a normal girl who (gasp) ends up getting married and having a kid, is there?

Marianne J. Dyson Ha ha! There's nothing wrong with women being well muscled and wielding battle axes, though I prefer a sword myself! (I actually have a 2nd degree black belt in Kuk Sool Won.) Women can be strong and perform well in combat without being physically intimidating. A good example in real life is Eileen Collins, the first female astronaut pilot and commander. I suspect it is not that a character can't be a "normal" girl, but that "normal" people tend not to be the focus of movies or books. You don't read many books about men getting married and having a kid, either, though that's pretty normal! For some good examples of strong women characters in science fiction, I recommend books by Catherine Asaro whose female characters use their brains and skills to win battles, and do so working together with men versus in competition with them.

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