Fortune’s Pawn, by Rachel BachRead about the other entries on the list.
Though it resulted in plenty of whining from the usual quarters, one of the most impressive innovations of the 2004 Battlestar was reimagining Starbuck—the smart-mouthed, hard-drinking, cigar-smoking ace pilot from the original—as a woman (brought to hard-edged, angular, and instantly iconic life by Katee Sackhoff). She was by no means the first space-military badass to also be a woman, but she certainly shifted the bar. In that spirit, Bach’s novel (the first in a trilogy) introduces Devi Morris, an ambitious and talented mercenary who takes a security job on a ship with a reputation for trouble. Over the course of the series, she finds herself in a galactic conflict, and comes into contact with a virus that could be lethal to the “phantoms” invading our universe.
Fortune’s Pawn is among Sam Maggs's five top books about kick-ass women livin’ large among the stars and Thea James's eight best women in military science fiction.
My Book, The Movie: Fortune's Pawn.
--Marshal Zeringue