KAMERON HURLEY is an award-winning writer of essays and SF/F fiction. She is the author of the Hugo Award-winning "We Have Always Fought," as well as the Worldbreaker Saga, the Gods' War Trilogy, and numerous short stories.
The Geek Feminist Revolution
Paperback
- ISBN-13: 9780765386243
- Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
- Publication date: 05/31/2016
- Pages: 288
- Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.80(d)
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The Geek Feminist Revolution is a collection of essays by double Hugo Award-winning essayist and fantasy novelist Kameron Hurley.
The book collects dozens of Hurley's essays on feminism, geek culture, and her experiences and insights as a genre writer, including "We Have Always Fought," which won the 2013 Hugo for Best Related Work. The Geek Feminist Revolution will also feature several entirely new essays written specifically for this volume.
Unapologetically outspoken, Hurley has contributed essays to The Atlantic, Locus, Tor.com, and others on the rise of women in genre, her passion for SF/F, and the diversification of publishing.
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“Plenty of inspiration here for promising writers and for young women drawn to a culture where sexism is rife.... Passion and commitment permeate the writing as Hurley illuminates the online cultural vanguard from a feminist's perspective.” Kirkus Reviews
“A call to arms for those who care about the future of science fiction and fantasy.”John Scalzi, author of The Old Man's War
“Hurley writes with passion, power, and raw, unapologetic honesty. Her essays are both blunt and thoughtful, and will give you a great deal to ponder about the speculative fiction genre and the world at large.” Jim C. Hines, author of the Goblin Quest series
“Kameron Hurley writes essays about feminism, geek culture, online discourse, and changing the world that piss people off, make them think, make them act. This is good stuff. Read it."Kate Elliott, author of Black Wolves
“The Geek Feminist Revolution is is an essential book for working and aspiring authors. It's part writing advice, part call to revolution, part manual for how to be a writer and an activist and a loudmouth even when (especially when) you're not a straight, white, cisgender man. This book is the next step in the conversation about how to write the Other. It's also about how to challenge mainstream nonsense when you're 'the Other,' even when you're desperately pretending not to be. Hurley's essays are a beacon, signaling to writers in the trenches that they're not alone, and they're not imagining how hard it is to push against the mainstream, or how the culture shoves back ten times harder.” K Tempest Bradford
“Listen, and understand: Kameron is out there. She can't be talked over. She can't be sidelined, ignored, or shut down. And she absolutely will not stop, ever, until things change. ”Seth Dickinson, author of The Traitor Baru Cormorant
“Kameron Hurley's a brave, unflinching, truly original writer with a unique vision-her fiction burns right through your brain and your heart.” Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Southern Reach Trilogy
A feminist manifesto from the front lines of fantasy fiction, Internet flaming, and Gamergate battles.In caricature, geek culture is typically male, but Hugo Award winner Hurley (The Mirror Emperor, 2014, etc.) aims to upend those stereotypes, which persist throughout the culture at large. The author is a prolific writer of science fiction novels, a field long dominated by males, a provocative blogger on feminist and cultural issues, an incisive critic, and an angry voice. She also pays her bills and receives medical benefits (which help offset chronic disease) from her career as an advertising copywriter and somehow can "still write the 1500 to 3000 words of fiction-related work and associated blog posts I do every day." A lot of writing can lead to a lot of repetition in a collection of blog posts and other essays, though there's plenty of inspiration here for promising writers and for young women drawn to a culture where sexism is rife. "At its heart," writes Hurley, "this collection is a guidebook for surviving not only the online world and the big media enterprises that use it as story fodder, but sexism in the wider world. It should inspire every reader, every fan, and every creator to participate in building that better future together." The contents range all over the map, as has the author, who "traveled throughout my twenties—eight different countries—and moved nine times in nine years." Some essays veer toward memoir, others offer advice on writing (fiction, advertising, or both), and many more are political and cultural broadsides, drawn from her viral blog posts and the responses they've generated. It can occasionally feel that readers are only receiving half the experience, as posts sustain a life of their own online, with a reach far beyond the pages of a book. Passion and commitment permeate the writing as Hurley illuminates the online cultural vanguard from a feminist's perspective.
Hugo Award–winning writer Hurley (Empire Ascendant) places some of her best previously published essays and nine new pieces into a collection that loudly highlights the limiting, raw deal women get in the science fiction and fantasy genre as authors, readers, and characters. She points out the dangers of trying to subvert gender norms rather than overturning them, and the impact that the science fiction writing tropes of the 1980s still have on today’s popular imagination, while encouraging writers to create, and readers to demand, stories that really push the edges of what we can imagine. She writes in an exquisitely crafted yet deceptively casual, profanity-laced style, linking her experiences to universal issues with rousing conviction. Hurley is certainly not the first to point out the deep misogyny in 21st-century popular culture, but she articulates the problems in an incisive, opinionated, and demanding blend of analysis and personal storytelling that will inspire her readers and peers in the science fiction community to work toward change. Agent: Hannah Bowman, Liza Dawson Associates. (June)
Hurley collected a Hugo Award for her essay "We Have Always Fought," which is one of the pieces included in this collection. Her words act as avatars for those advocating the inclusion of female sf/fantasy writers, gamers, and bloggers in geek culture. Since so much of pop culture has its roots in sf and fantasy, and those roots have morphed into influential video games, movies, and television shows, this is an important battle for feminists. While the essays are uniformly excellent, narrator C.S.E. Cooney's performance lacks nuance. Her earnestness becomes a trifle monotone, but since the book has natural stopping places between essays, listeners can dip in and out as needed. VERDICT Recommended for larger libraries. ["A great introduction for geek guys seeking to understand and reassurance for women that the injustices, while real, are survivable": LJ 6/1/16 review of the Tor hc.]—Kelly Sinclair, Temple P.L., TX