The Ingredients Of An SFF Heroine

As I summarised in yesterday’s post, over the past week I’ve taken a look at a few more great heroines of SFF, Part 1 on Monday and Part 2 on Thursday) building on a post series from 2011 (Six Great Heroines Of SFF, Part 1 & Part 2.)

As also summarised yesterday I’ve also recently taken a look at some of my own heroines.

But all this got me thinking about whether there are particular ingredients in common between all these diverse characters. Usually, with SFF, there’s a “quest” or problem to b...