Geek Feminist Revolution, Kameron Hurley
Geek Feminist Revolution, Kameron Hurley
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Geek Feminist Revolution
Essays on Subversion, Tactical Profanity, and the Power of the Media

Author: Kameron Hurley

Narrator: C.S.E. Cooney

Unabridged: 8 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/31/2016

Synopsis

Kameron Hurley—one of the most influential young voices in science fiction and geek culture—presents The Geek Feminist Revolution: Essays on Subversion, Tactical Profanity, And the Power of Media. The Geek Feminist Revolution is Bad Feminist for the Comic-Con crowd. This powerful collection of essays is about overcoming misogyny in geek culture, the persistence required to succeed as a woman writing science fiction, and imagining a better world and a better future through the stories we write.

About Kameron Hurley

Kameron Hurley is the author of The Stars are Legion, The Light Brigade, and the award-winning essay collection The Geek Feminist Revolution, as well as the God's War Trilogy and the Worldbreaker Saga. Hurley has won the Hugo Award, Kitschy Award, BSFA Award, and Sydney J. Bounds Award for Best Newcomer. She was also a finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Nebula Award, and the Gemmell Morningstar Award. Her short fiction has appeared in Popular Science Magazine, Lightspeed Magazine, and many anthologies. Hurley has also written for the Atlantic, Entertainment Weekly, the Village Voice, Bitch Magazine, and Locus.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bradley on June 22, 2017

This is the 5th book I've read of Hurley and out of all of them, I'm going to have to rate this the best. Why? Is it because it's full of rage at the real injustice in the world? Or because it's a call to action for every one of us to do and think better than we have been? Both of these, I think. But......more

Goodreads review by Thomas on October 22, 2016

A fabulous, fierce essay collection that uplifted my soul in the busy season of graduate school applications. Double Hugo Award winner Kameron Hurley writes about the intersections of feminism, science fiction and fantasy, and the struggles she has overcome in her personal life. She sheds light on t......more

Goodreads review by Melora on June 04, 2017

This caught my eye for a couple reasons. One being that I can imagine that if I were half my age, born in 1990 rather than 1965, I might well be participating in the geeky internet fandoms Hurley describes in her introduction, those that “have arisen around science fiction and fantasy novels, games,......more

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