#READERS SHARE: Books with muscle/athletic woman

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Here's the description of Fiona "Feather" Filip from "Juggler of Worlds":

"She was lean, almost gaunt, but also massively muscled. He guessed she worked out obsessively. She would have been striking, if not exactly pretty, if she didn't scare the bejesus out of him."

Sadly, her bodybuilder physique is not ever commented on again in the book, except in passing.

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


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.

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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.

There are illustrations throughout the book- black-and-white, with the women having fairly big-but-offseason physiques. The story's pretty good, too.



A different book:

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No super hero stuff, but a cool fiction version of the facts of the real life amazons and what they may be doing today!   Lots of tall and fit women in this novel.  Plus, a lot of women acting liking total amazon, including arrow and sword play 

 The Lost Sisterhood: A Novel



 From the author of the New York Times bestseller Juliet comes a mesmerizing novel about a young scholar who risks her reputation—and her life—on a thrilling journey to prove that the legendary warrior women known as the Amazons actually existed.

 Oxford lecturer Diana Morgan is an expert on Greek mythology. Her obsession with the Amazons started in childhood when her eccentric grandmother claimed to be one herself—before vanishing without a trace. Diana’s colleagues shake their heads at her Amazon fixation. But then a mysterious, well-financed foundation makes Diana an offer she cannot refuse.

 Traveling to North Africa, Diana teams up with Nick Barran, an enigmatic Middle Eastern guide, and begins deciphering an unusual inscription on the wall of a recently unearthed temple. There she discovers the name of the first Amazon queen, Myrina, who crossed the Mediterranean in a heroic attempt to liberate her kidnapped sisters from Greek pirates, only to become embroiled in the most famous conflict of the ancient world—the Trojan War. Taking their cue from the inscription, Diana and Nick set out to find the fabled treasure that Myrina and her Amazon sisters salvaged from the embattled city of Troy so long ago. Diana doesn’t know the nature of the treasure, but she does know that someone is shadowing her, and that Nick has a sinister agenda of his own. With danger lurking at every turn, and unsure of whom to trust, Diana finds herself on a daring and dangerous quest for truth that will forever change her world.

 Sweeping from England to North Africa to Greece and the ruins of ancient Troy, and navigating between present and past, The Lost Sisterhood is a breathtaking, passionate adventure of two women on parallel journeys, separated by time, who must fight to keep the lives and legacy of the Amazons from being lost forever


PDF:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ms._Tree

The title character is Michael Tree, a female private detective who takes over her husband's investigation business when he is murdered. In her first case, she captures the murderer and discovers his link to the Muerta organized crime family.

Ms. Tree's dead husband was named Michael Tree, the joke being that after the marriage they had the same name. (The female main character's real first name actually is Michael; when friends want to irritate her they deliberately mispronounce it as "Michelle." Michael Tree hates being called Michelle.) Series creator/writer Max Allan Collins makes no secret of the fact that Ms. Tree was inspired by Velda, Mike Hammer's secretary, a stacked, gun carrying, six-foot tall brunette and Mike's lover, who was almost as tough as he was. The basic premise of Ms. Tree was, "What if Velda and Mike Hammer eventually got married, and on their honeymoon he was murdered?"

Throughout the series, in addition to isolated cases that often touch on social issues of the day, Ms. Tree's vendetta against the Muerta family is a major plot thread. Her methods often include deadly violence which she uses with little hesitation. In contrast to genre conventions, she faces serious consequences throughout the series for these violent actions including arrest, imprisonment, commitment to a mental hospital, and involuntary medication.

In another genre divergence, the male Michael Tree's son, Mike (of course), inadvertently falls in love with the daughter of the Muerta matron. The female Michael disapproves of this arrangement but respects her stepson's decision while observing with amusement the Muerta matron's futile attempts to discourage it. To Ms. Tree's shock, when the relationship grows enough to make marriage probable, the Muerta family decides Mike's stepmother is now family and initiates a reconciliation with her while going legit.

In addition, Michael is impregnated by an old flame who is manipulating her to kill his wife. She decides to keep the baby, creating a unique series of adventures of this homicidal PI fighting off criminals even while dealing with a full term pregnancy while the mob family she hates moves to protect her in their own way.

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Best Answer
Know It All answered 2 years ago
 

If you're looking for a beginner level lesbian literature, you can start off with books/writings by Natalie Clifford Barney.

 I have to give you a background of this before suggesting books - this is needed because there are more books interlinking other spheres of human existence and lesbianism, than books about lesbianism surrounding female sports figures.

 "Perhaps the paucity of attention to athletes and sports in lesbian literature is a reflection of the larger society's ambivalence toward female athleticism.
 

 Therefore, "When lesbian athletes and coaches appear in literature, they are frequently depicted as having stereotypically "masculine" athletic interests and values. For example, they tend to be fiercely competitive; for them, winning is the only thing. Such portrayals reflect the period when equal opportunity was the top priority for women's sports advocates."

 The Well of Loneliness (1928) - Radycliffe Hall
 The "schoolgirl stories" - of novelists such as Elsie Oxenham and Angela Brazil.
 Vassar Stories - Grace Gallaher
 Vassar Studies - Julia Schwartze
 Miss Pym Disposes - Josephine Tey
 The High Cost of Living - Marge Piercy
 Sudden Death - Rita Mae Brown
 The Sea of Light - Jenifer Levin
 Water Dancer - Jenifer Levin
 All Out - Judith Alguire
 Sunday's Child - Joyce Bright
 Lady Lobo - Kristen Garrett
 Sportsdykes: Stories from on and off the Field - Susan Fox Rogers

 Of these, special mention is required for "Sudden Death" and "Sportsdykes: Stories from on and off the Field."

 Susan Fox Rogers' book contains both fiction and non-fiction, and is praised for it's freshness of approach to the concept of bringing together the concept sports in lesbian ways in a novel way. It's appreciated for it's thoughtfulness and new sophistication.

 "Rita Mae Brown's Sudden Death (1983) is set in the world of professional tennis, a world in which lesbians have been both spectacularly successful and a potential embarrassment to the public-relations conscious management. The fact that Brown wrote the novel after the breakup of her widely publicized affair with tennis legend Martina Navratilova encouraged readers and critics to approach the novel as a roman à clef."

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The Reader (Der Vorleser) by Bernhard Schlink, published in Germany in 1995 and in the United States in 1997.

Kate Winslet doesn't necessarily look like what Hanna is described as looking physically, but if I remember correctly; Hanna (36yrs) is described as very muscular with a strong back arms, legs and hands. Her physique is being described by the young boy Michael (15yrs) when she undresses before him and begins to use him for her sexual pleasures and desires.

Hanna plays a dominant position in their relationship later on in the book and teaches him everything about being a man and how to treat women both sexually and emotionally.

Excuse my language, but she FUCKS his brains out throughout a large portion of the book. The movie doesn't come close. I was assigned this book in a literature course I took in college. I had the pleasure of reading it out loud to some of the beautiful ladies that attended the same class (the women to male ratio in the course was like 15:5). I kinda miss college

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2. "Last of the Amazons" by Steven Pressfield - Pressfield is arguably the greatest author of those sweeping, epic sagas set in "olden times". Entirely fiction, but based very much in reality, Pressfield stays usually within medieval, or Roman, or Greek times. This particular book is a (sort of) follow-on to another one of his greek epics. To cut a long story short, a Greek King marries the Amazon Queen, Antiope, and the other Amazons see this as a great betrayal and march on Athens to massacre everyone, basically. Within this story is a thread of a young girl being trained to be a warrior. Some of the best imagery in the book (muscle-femme-wise anyway) is when the young girl is studying the other Amazons when they are training, exercising, fighting etc. She is stunned by their strength and size, and there is also a scene where one of the more fearsome Amazonian warriors gets in a stand-up fight to the death with a Greek male soldier, and effortlessly kills him.


PDF of novel:

http://depositfiles.com/files/42c1u57lc

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My Antonia

Guy tells the story about a girl he grew up with. I don't remember the entire story. (Really don't remember any of it. Of course I had to read it for high school which almost means I was meant to forget it.  )
Except as a teen Antonia was more of a tomboy.


'Oh, better I like to work out-of-doors than in a house!' she used to
sing joyfully. 'I not care that your grandmother say it makes me like
a man. I like to be like a man.' She would toss her head and ask me to
feel the muscles swell in her brown arm.

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I got the novel in the mail a few days ago and as flipping through it and saw this part:

On Page 184:


She smiled again, rolled up her blouse sleeve and curled her am into a muscle that would have made Arnold S. envious. 

Running Mates by John Feinstein, author of a lot of Sports Non Fiction books, penned this one about a ex college hoop star turned author who gets involved in murder at the Maryland Legislature.  There is character Jamelle Touretta who is a classic amazon.  described as a Victoria's Secret model on Steroids (something like that) there are several instances where she uses her strength including 2 fight scenes with men.   I always hoped they would make it into a move, but I'm sure like many of the books into movies here they would have minimized or excluded the Amazon character.   




anyone have this book in pdf or epub form??  Please, post it if you do!

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Adding to the list:
From Micheal A Black:
The second main character is a female bodybuilder. Ok books as well.

 - Random Victim
 - Hostile Takeovers

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Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold

A long series of SF books about a very short character with an affinity for taller women. More specifically in the novella Labyrynth there is a genetically engineered female soldier who is double his size and freakishly strong. This character and other tall women do not have a very large impact in the books but are nice details to a good series.


Vampire Lestat - Ann Rice

There is a nice scene I remeber reading really far back with a Vampire queen who stomps people/vampires (forgot) to death although beeing normal sized.

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From Goodreads big list

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3900.Amazons_Female_Warriors_and_Wonder_Women#1300338

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorkosigan_Saga

Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold

A long series of SF books about a very short character with an affinity for taller women. More specifically in the novella Labyrynth there is a genetically engineered female soldier who is double his size and freakishly strong. This character and other tall women do not have a very large impact in the books but are nice details to a good series.


Vampire Lestat - Ann Rice

There is a nice scene I remeber reading really far back with a Vampire queen who stomps people/vampires (forgot) to death although beeing normal sized.

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Here's a couple:

Freefall by Kyle Mills. One of the main characters is a hot young mountain climber whose muscularity and strength is often-cited. She's portrayed as very strong with nearly superhuman endurance, and toward the end of the book she literally kills a goon by umping on his back and breaking his neck with her bare hands.

Drakon, by S.M. Sterling.....easily the greatest 'regular' market ubergirl book I've ever read. A very, very bad girl (who happens to be a member of a genetically superior race) travel back in time to the 'present,' and puts her plan for world domination into motion. She's described as Swedish-looking, with a superhuman/supermodel build, and she spends most of the book dominating anyone she comes into contact with through the use of her pheromones and tremendous strength --- she spends a LARGE portion of the book killing people. VERY good.
Apparently, Sterling has written a couple of books featuring this race, but this is the only one where a female is the main character -- and in this case, villain. Sterling is clearly 'one of us.'      (somebody once wrote a fanfic sequel/similar tale featuring a similar character called 'Fun in the Woods." --- this was almost as well written as Sterling's work and featured a similar uber hot, superwoman villain....if you can find it, enjoy it.).