[GWHH]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence_(novel)
Emergence (novel)

Author(s) David R. Palmer
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Science fiction novel
Publisher Bantam Spectra
Publication date November 1984
Media type Print (Paperback)
ISBN ISBN 0-553-25519-3 (first edition, paperback)
OCLC Number 12968116

Emergence is a science fiction book written by David R. Palmer and first published by Bantam Spectra in November 1984. It had three printings through July 1985, and was republished in 1990 as a “Signature Special Edition” with a few minor edits and a new afterword by the author.

Emergence was Palmer’s first published novel. It was developed from a pair of Hugo[1] and Nebula award nominated novellas originally published in somewhat different form in Analog magazine. The novel itself was nominated for a Hugo Award, a pair of Locus awards (for first novel and science fiction novel), was a finalist for a Philip K. Dick Award, and won the Compton Crook Award.[1]

Palmer’s sequel to Emergence, entitled Tracking, was serialized in Analog in 2008. Wormhole Press was short-listed to release Tracking and re-release Emergence as both paperbacks and in hardcover, but as of October 2010 the publisher appears to be out-of-business.

Candidia Maria Smith-Foster, an eleven-year-old girl, is unaware that she’s a Homo post hominem, mankind’s next evolutionary step. Hominems have higher IQs, they’re stronger, faster, more resistant to illness and trauma, and have quicker reflexes. Their eyesight, hearing, and sense of smell are superior as well.

[yaracyrrah80]

I wouldn’t say it’s “about” strength, but it is a phenomenally good SF novel that features a young woman with amazing abilities, and it happens to be the book that introduced my 13-year-old self to this genre, a many years ago. Highly recommended.

[SweMu]

Sounds ok, you didnt write much about what the book is actually about tho :p

On the subject of Amaz0ns in sci-fi. Anyone read “Achilles’ Choise” by Larry Niven and Stephen Barnes? It’s about a female athlete/scholar who is competing in a future olympiad where the winners gets to become the ruling class while the losers soon all die because cybernetic implants needed to compete makes you age really qick after a few years.
Its Illustrated by Boris Vallejo who you all should know is a fan of female muscle (and it shows in his art) He even married a female Bodybuilder.

[GWHH]

Emergence (ISBN 0-553-25519-3), won the Compton Crook Award in 1985. It arose from a novella by the same title featured in the January, 1981, issue of Analog. This was followed by the February, 1983, Analog publication of the Seeking novella, which ultimately became part two of the novel. Thereafter the Emergence novella appeared in an anthology called Children of the Future. Both novellas also won reader’s choice awards from Analog. Both were nominated for the Hugo award for best novella in their respective years, and the novel for best novel in 1985.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_R._Palmer

http://www.amazon.com/review/RDAT39JVPMNSL/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm

[Seldom]

Maybe this thread is (another?) appropriate place to plug two of my favorite contemporary sci-fi authors: James Alan Gardner and Peter F. Hamilton.

Hamilton: In Pandora’s Star and Judas Unleashed, there is a very brief mention of a jacked-up bodybuilder-level female bodyguard with weapons enhancements. Unfortunately she gets very little page-time and dies off right quick when the fighting starts, but she goes down swinging. In general the women in Hamilton’s novels are as complex and fleshed-out as the men, which is refreshing and somewhat rare. Most of the characters tend to be do-ers and athletic to some degree, and though usually not wildly muscular, they are fit and strong and capable.

Gardner: The narrator of his book Ascendant, a character named Oar, is Amazonian: tall, strong, beautiful, physical, and straightforward. She is also quite hilarious. There is also an enormously muscled, humanoid, female alien who is at various times cute, shy, submissive, and extremely protective. She is the most overtly muscled of any of his characters. Many of the female characters in his books are powerful, some for good and some for evil.

Thanks for pointing out Emergence. I’m adding it to my list.

[stevexyz]

There is also a female bodybuilder character in HANNIBAL by Thomas Harris. The character, most unfortunately, was not used at all in the movie version.

[GWHH]

i read that novel about the young girl with super strength. pretty good. But i can’t figure out the plot. A team of die hard commie in china and soviet union. Wipe out almost the entire human population with a virus. except for the ones that have this new generic code. The USA nukes the base of the commie new generic code people. Which leaves the normal gene commies OK and free to take over the world. typical triple cross cold war plot!

[Nick Furry]

http://www.analogsf.com/0807_8/tracking.shtml

part 1 of 3

[Nick Furry]

[BodybyBane]

Tonibo and the Girls of Angels, Inc.: A Presidential Dilemma
Found out about ToniBo while searching DeviantArt site
When I saw a realistic looking muscle girl bending over her gf/co-worker with muscles,..I had to know more
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1469700689/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

“There are secret government agents among us. During the day, they might buy groceries. Maybe they do laundry at the Laundromat down the street. Maybe they go to your local gym and run on a treadmill. To the untrained eye, they are regular American citizens … but they take their jobs seriously. At night, they break through advanced building security. They hack the computers of terrorists, and they might even kill.

Meet the Angels-four beautiful women by day and four tough government spies by night. There’s the fearless leader, ToniBo, an ex-Navy Seal. Miki is a five-foot-tall ex-Green Beret who gives out bruises as fast as you can blow a kiss. CeeCee is an ex-Ranger communications officer and sniper, while Iris is an ex-Special Operations demolition expert and Top Gun pilot. Together, they form a team that’s practically unbeatable-all while doing their best to live semi-normal lives.

But now, their country needs them. Bloodthirsty neo-Nazi racists are plotting to take down the president of the United States. They are angered that a less-than-pureblood is running their country, and it has to stop. These backwoods boys didn’t count on the Angels, though, and their kidnapping plot is about to get a lot more difficult when four brave women help to save the life of our country’s commander-in-chief.”

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