an anatomically-impossible "warrior woman" in a costume she probably could hardly move in
That's more common in fantasy, I think? Or at least, the kind of pulp SF approach to such things has died down a lot over more recent decades, while lots of fantasy is still very much of the 'Alas, we have stumbled across the lost kingdom of the nymphomaniac Amazons!' school.
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Date: 2009-06-06 10:50 am (UTC)That's more common in fantasy, I think? Or at least, the kind of pulp SF approach to such things has died down a lot over more recent decades, while lots of fantasy is still very much of the 'Alas, we have stumbled across the lost kingdom of the nymphomaniac Amazons!' school.