They are the ones who deal with creepy aliens and warp speed space vehicle chases. Mine would be Etain from Republic Commando: Hard Contact

I'm a fan of the kick-ass chicks variety:
examples include
Friday (Robert A. Heinlein)
and
Max from the TV show Dark Angel

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If you haven't already try reading Karen Traviss's non Star-Wars books which start with City Of Pearl. Very good aliens (and we get more of them as the series goes on) but no warp-speed space vehicle chases.

I've been looking for that one, I think I'm just gonna

go to Amazon and get it:) Thanks anyways:)

I have a strange attraction to Paula Myo from Pandora's Star/Judas Unchained.

"Little" Dora from Time Enough for Love was a good one, too. Very bittersweet story.

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Yes, I love "little" Dora - actually, if I ever had a daughter I was going to name her after that character. Then my SIL named her daughter Cora, and Dora the Explorer was so popular...

No aliens or spaceships, but I loved YT from Snow Crash and Janet from The Female Man.

Cordelia from the Vorkosigan series by Lois McMaster Bujold, most notably in Barrayar, Trigger and Telzey and Nile Etland from the works of James H. Schmitz, Rachel Ajmani in Grasp the Stars. Miri Robertson in Agent of Change and following Liaden books. Heris Serrano in Hunting Party and sequels. Tabitha Jute in Take Back Plenty. Honor Harrington early in the series. Victoria MacKenzie from Vonda McIntyre's trilogy starting with Starfarers. Any of Melissa Scott's main characters. Galactic Sybil Sue Blue. Allison Reilly in Merchanter's Luck. Pyanfar Chanur in Pride of Chanur and sequels. Thursday Next in The Eyre Affair and sequels. Lilyaka Hae Ransome in The Highroad Trilogy.

>ronincats -
Yes, me too, I love Pyanfar Chanur, and love her niece Hilfy even more. C. J. Cherryh writes women in SF so well.

>andyl -
and I too love Traviss' character Shan Frankland in all six of her books.

But my all time favorite female SF character is Cherijo in S. L. Viehl's Stardoc novels.

I like the old lady in Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon. She's a hoot. I want to be just like her when I'm her age.
and Ariane Emory in Cyteen and Regenesis, as well as Signy Mallory in Downbelow Station. Not necessarily people one likes, but very strong interesting female characters.

I was going to go look up Downbelow Station after seeing the thread name and put in my two cents, but as I scrolled down, there she is...

I hope no one is going to add Honor Harrington, though. Shivers...

If you consider Kim Harrison's Rachel Morgan series to be "sci-fi" then Ivy Tamwood.

And Shori in Octavia Butler's Fledgling.

NO limits, as long as it is somewhat sci-fi, its okay=)

Benita in The Fresco, Cherijo in the Stardoc series

I love Toren Kerr in the confederation series by Tanya Huff.

Cortana, from the Halo series.

If there are no limits, then Ellie from Contact. Smart girls are hot. :-)

And Jane Sagan from John Scalzi's Old Man's War series, she kicks a lot of butt and is incredibly fun.

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Does Freya from Saturn's Children count? :-)

Sutty from UKL's The Telling

Evelyn Dobbs from Zettel's Fool's War

Rydra Wong from Delany's Babel-17

Herris Serrano in the Elizabeth Moon series,
Cordelia and Ekaterin in the Vorkosigan series by Lois McMaster Bujold,
Snake in Vonda McIntyre's Dreamsnake, and
Miri Robertson and Priscilla Delacroix y Mendoza in Partners in Necessity and other books in the Liaden series by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller.