Seven top sci-fi books featuring strong women

At the B & N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog Joel Cunningham tagged seven books "which have the audacity to suggest that women be treated like the awesome badasses they are," including:
God’s War, by Kameron Hurley

Nyxnissa so Dasheem is a Bel Dame, a licensed bounty hunter who cuts off heads on behalf of her government on the ravaged, war-torn colony world Umayma. She’s a veteran of the front lines in