: Re: Is it acceptable for a book to not have a dominant lead character? I saw this question posted in another forum, and it didn't have any responses, so naturally I decided to bring it over here.

@Lengel543

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I once read a Tom Clancy book, "Red Storm Rising", in which he introduced a character, and a few pages into the book, killed him off. So I was thinking, ok that wasn't the main character. Then he did it again. And again. I swear to you, 200 pages into the book he introduced the lead character.

I never actually finished that book because it was about naval war in the north atlantic and there were a bunch of military terms I couldn't really get into.

But I digress.

If your book has some common thread, like a certain theme, it may not need a main character. Sometimes in science fiction, the main character isn't necessarily a human, but something mechanical, like a space ship.

I would have to say if you've written an entertaining book without identifying a main character, don't let anyone tell you it has to be otherwise.

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