One of the things that readers often comment to me about regarding Senta and the Steel Dragon is the strong female characters.  The most important characters in the story (and the most powerful) are mostly women.  The most forceful– Iolanthe Dechantagne.  The magical– Zurfina and Senta.  The smartest– Egeria Korlann.

Ostensibly the story of Senta and the Steel Dragon takes place in a Victorian Patriarchal society.  But if you scratch the surface a bit, you find that it’s not that simple.  It is a world where priests are both male and female, but more than that, the holy savior is female– Kafira Kristos.  The most popular and controversial writer is in the world is female– Kazia Garstone.

Finally in Birmisia, a distant and primitive colony, rather than being overrun by lonely men, far more women have arrived as colonists than men.  All of these things go to counteract the male dominance of the world at large.

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