Relooking At Leadership in Speculative Fiction: Part 2

As noted on Monday, when introducing this two-part backlist post, the characters are featured in alphabetical order by name, but no preference should be inferred from the order in which they appear.

J is for John Aversin in Barbara Hambly’s Dragonsbane (Genre: Fantasy)

At face value a fairly ordinary sort of guy, John Aversin is the local leader (knight/baron) in the largely abandoned northern part of the kingdom in which he lives. He is a leader out of necessity and duty, but when events (a  d...