Dan Simmons' Hyperion: Fedmahn Kassad is - well, technically Martian, I suppose, but of Palestinian descent.
Fans: Rumiko "Rumy" Tanaka is Japanese. Also, I neglected to put them on the official list, but several of the "next-gen" characters - Jared (African-American), Hilda (Latina), and Rico (Latino) - qualify and are pretty darn awesome.
Connie Willis' Oxford time-travel series: Someone really ought to give technician Badri Chaudhuri his own fic.
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Dan Simmons' Hyperion: Fedmahn Kassad is - well, technically Martian, I suppose, but of Palestinian descent.
Fans: Rumiko "Rumy" Tanaka is Japanese. Also, I neglected to put them on the official list, but several of the "next-gen" characters - Jared (African-American), Hilda (Latina), and Rico (Latino) - qualify and are pretty darn awesome.
Connie Willis' Oxford time-travel series: Someone really ought to give technician Badri Chaudhuri his own fic.