Ice Planet Barbarians

Georgie is the protagonist and one of the novel’s two narrators. Like all the abducted women, she is 22 years old. The reader sees the events of the novel through Georgie’s experience and perspective, and her character acts as an interpretive means for the sci-fi context and events of the novel to unfold. The interest of the novel lies mainly in her reactions and decision-making, especially since she’s the female half of the novel’s romance-narrative couple.

Georgie’s role as a protagonist is established not only through her perspective but also because she quickly emerges as the leader of the group of human women when she begins plotting how to escape their captors. Though the escape does not go according to plan, as the ship hits some form of turbulence and the “cargo hold” containing the women is jettisoned onto Not-Hoth, Georgie shows the quick thinking and initiative to continue to overpower an alien guard while the other women panic. This de facto leadership (as well as comparatively minor injuries) leads Georgie to be selected as the member of their group to explore the outside world of Not-Hoth after they explore, given that lack of suitable clothing means that only one person can venture into the snowy landscape.