King, Betty
Entry updated 6 September 2026. Tagged: Author, Critic.
(1948- ) US author known for Women of the Future: The Female Main Character in Science Fiction (1984), which assembles a detailed and apparently exhaustive list of Women in SF from 1818 onward. This begins with a general overview from Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein; Or, the Modern Prometheus (1818; rev 1831) to 1929 and continues with chapters on the 1930s and subsequent decades, with the main emphasis on novel-length work; the whole is aimed at prospective readers rather than sf scholars or historians. There are appendices covering collections and Anthologies, erotic sf, and the Amazon women of Sword and Sorcery, and a bibliography of relevant criticism. [DRL]
Betty King
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nonfiction
- Women of the Future: The Female Main Character in Science Fiction (Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press, 1984) [nonfiction: hb/nonpictorial]
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