{"id":15317,"date":"2016-07-15T19:56:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T02:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2016\/07\/15\/15317.html"},"modified":"2016-07-15T19:56:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-16T02:56:40","slug":"bettyann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2016\/07\/15\/bettyann\/","title":{"rendered":"Bettyann"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So I've been halfheartedly reading\/skimming all this old science fiction, and I started in on Raymond J. Healy's 1951 anthology <cite>New Tales of Space and Time<\/cite>, not expecting much even though it was one of the first original (as opposed to reprint) anthologies, and then I got to a story called \"Bettyann,\" by Kris Neville, and I suddenly sat up and started paying attention because it reads like literary fiction and the protagonist is a girl. (Neither of those things is totally unheard-of for sf of that period, but both are pretty rare.)<\/p>\n<p>Turned out to be a really good story. Unfortunately, there are ten pages missing from the middle of my copy; I'll have to find another copy. (Half of the missing pages are in a Google Books preview, but I still missed about five pages.)<\/p>\n<p>I don't think I had ever heard of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kris_Ottman_Neville\">Neville<\/a> before. According to Wikipedia, he appears to have given up on sf fairly quickly. I hope to read more of his work; some of his books are available via Project Gutenberg.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone happen to know who one might contact regarding his literary estate, specifically reprint rights?<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve been halfheartedly reading\/skimming all this old science fiction, and I started in on Raymond J. Healy&#8217;s 1951 anthology&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-stories","category-speculative-fiction"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}