protagonist

• Shelley had even suggested the name of the protagonist, a German word meaning something like the stone whose travel-toll is paid in advance . —  Tim Powers - The Stress of Her Regard
• The book is set in an alternate Oxford, and her protagonist is a prickly, solitary, brilliant young man named Raoul Ahmahn Giamboni Smythe (the name is emphatically not his fault) -- an academic magician with a bent for doing old things in new ways. —  F ;SF; - vol 091 issue 06 - December 1996
• In ‘The Proposal’ by Charles Colyott a man with the power to resurrect the dead does so for the woman he loves over and over again, even though he knows she will never return his feelings, the story one in which the protagonist is at first manipulative but ultimately pitiable, with his unique ability become the rack on which his emotions are tortured. —  BlackStaticHorrorMagazine#2
• In this book the protagonist is the boy's father, a pharmaceutical manufacturer who takes the inexcusable step of making his son a laboratory animal. —  BEN BOVA
• To be more specific, the first decision we make is who the protagonist will be and what problem he/she has. —  StrangeHorizons,September2002

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