Red Szell

And to be honest, I find it quite difficult to differentiate between the male and female scientists who populated the...

Project Hail Mary back on Earth.

They were all of a sort.

They were emotionally two-dimensional, and it was almost mad professors focusing on science to the exclusion of everything else.

It is a weakness, I think, of the genre.

Ian M. Banks managed to push it a little bit further.

I think he could write good female characters.

But again, yeah, there doesn't tend to be much emotional development within especially hard science fiction.