Character from Hyperion by Dan Simmons
The Detective — a private investigator from high-gravity Lusus who fell in love with a dead poet's AI ghost, got pregnant with a messiah, and punched the Shrike in the face.
Brawne Lamia's tale is the Detective's Tale — hardboiled noir in space. She was hired by 'Johnny' — the first Keats cybrid, an AI consciousness in a human body modeled after the poet John Keats — to investigate his own murder. She fell in love with him. He was killed before reaching Hyperion. She carries his consciousness in a Schrodinger cat box and his child in her womb. That child is Aenea — the One Who Teaches, the messiah figure of the Endymion novels. Brawne didn't know she was carrying the salvation of humanity. She just knew she was pregnant and angry and the thing that killed Johnny was connected to the Shrike. She destroyed the Shrike's crystalline form inside the Shrike Palace during the pilgrimage. She freed Martin Silenus from the Tree of Pain. She died on Hyperion about twelve years after the Fall, having raised Aenea for the first decade of her life. Her name is a reference to the Keats poem 'Lamia.' She is named after a serpent woman. She is the most physically dangerous of the seven pilgrims and the most emotionally direct.
Short, muscular, with shoulder-length black curls and dark eyes. Built like a Lusian — thick-boned from a high-gravity world, which makes her physically stronger than most humans. She looks like someone who solves problems with her fists and occasionally with her brain, in that order.
Also known as: Brawne, Lamia, The Detective