dustdaughter, if you've not read these then you've a new female character to add to your list: Sal Aboujib. Someone you want on your side in a spaceship or a bar fight. ;-)From my cataloguing software's' Pick of the Day feature:
Reading: Asterix and Caesar's Gift by Goscinny and Uderzo.
Listening: Bloodwood, by Alan Dargin and Michael Atherton.
Viewing: Barney Miller (season three, episode six: "Werewolf")
