livingbyfiction ([personal profile] livingbyfiction) wrote in [personal profile] lightreads 2012-01-02 09:13 am (UTC)

I think you would like Eliza from Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle. Her superpower is primarily investing, but also manipulating the stock market through political intrigue, spying, ciphering, and wiggling her fingers inside of men because she doesn't want to get pregnant. Now that's talent.

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