From pulp fiction to cyberpunk science fiction writing has always abounded with vivid powerful women – Amazonians alien queens slayers of monsters brilliant scientists and ethereal beings. Ron Miller’s portraits evoke a colorful pictorial history of these multi-faceted heroines while Pamela Sargent’s incisive text provides an absorbing analysis from the beginnings of the genre to the present day from H.G. Wells’ Weena to Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Dian the Beautiful and Isaac Asimov’s Dr Susan Calvin.