"Amazons of the Asteroids"

Title"Amazons of the Asteroids"
Year for Search1951
AuthorsHemming, N[orma] K[athleen](1928-60)
Tertiary AuthorsHemming, N. K
Secondary TitleThrills Incorporated (Sydney, NSW, Australia)
Volume / Editionno. 17
Pagination4-13
Date PublishedNovember 1951
KeywordsAustralian author, English author, Female author
Annotation

Gender-role reversal satire in which Amazons riding flying are horses found in the asteroid belt. They hate men and keep them subservient.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in Dwellers in Silence: Stories and Plays by Norma Hemming. Ed. Toby Burrows (Nedlands, WA, Australia: Hilliard Press, 2010), 314-30. 

Holding Institutions

A, M., PSt

Author Note

Her surname is sometimes misspelled as Heming.

Full Text

1951 Hemming, N[orma] K[athleen] (1928-1960). “Amazons of the Asteroids.” Thrills Incorporated (Sydney, NSW, Australia), no. 17 (November 1951): 4-13. Rpt. in Dwellers in Silence: Stories and Plays by Norma Hemming. Ed. Toby Burrows (Nedlands, WA, Australia: Hilliard Press, 2010), 314-330. A, M, PSt

Gender-role reversal satire in which Amazons riding flying are horses found in the asteroid belt. They hate men and keep them subservient. The female author was born in England and immigrated to Australia in 1949. Her surname is sometimes misspelled as Heming.