Brave New Girls: Heroines Who Hack is Published!

Brave New Girls: Tales of Heroines Who Hack, featuring 23 sci-fi stories about girls in science, is now available! One of those stories is my Rumplestiltskin retelling "Login," with an illustration by Sharon Emmitt.
 

Welcome to the sci-fi worlds of brainy teen heroines who hack not just computers, but whatever puzzles come their way

A scrappy mechanic on an oppressed planet builds a device she hopes will be her ticket to a better future. A fledgling chemist uses her skills to catch a murderer. A teen inventor creates a weapon to battle the mysterious beasts attacking her city. A superhero-in-training puts her skills to the test when attackers strike her compound. A self-styled detective hacks an augmented reality game to solve a dastardly crime.

Girls who code, explore, fix robots, pilot starships, invent gadgets, build high-tech treehouses, and more. With tales ranging from space adventures to steampunk to cyberpunk and more this 23-story collection will delight, thrill, and enthrall. Proceeds from sales of this anthology will be donated to a scholarship fund through the Society of Women Engineers.

Let’s show today’s girls that they, too, can be tomorrow’s inventors, programmers, scientists, and more.


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Ask anyone who knows me and they'll tell you I was born to be a writer, but that's not strictly true. I was always coming up with stories and writing them down, always had characters and scenarios running around in my head. But writing was just a hobby.

I was born to be a scientist.

My heart is filled with Magic School Bus and Bill Nye quotes, and science was the one subject in school that made sense. No interpreting historical events and poetry, no confusing numbers, just facts and rules.

When I was little, my father and I had a less than stable relationship. He was abusive and some days there were a lot more bad moments than good. But the thing all the good ones have in common? Science.

Looking at tadpoles under my microscope. Building a radio. Staying up til midnight talking about Schrodinger's cat. It just made sense.

I was "supposed" to be a scientist. The only reasons I'm not is that I physically can't do a lot of the fun parts, and that me and school don't play well together.

But I stll identify as a science fangirl way stronger than a science fiction fangirl, so being part of this anthology means so much to me.

STORIES BY: Lyssa Chiavari, Jennifer Chow, Russ and Abby Colchamiro, MLD Curelas, Paige Daniels, Kay Dominguez, Mary Fan, Halli Gomez, Valerie Hunter, AA Jankiewicz, Nicholas Jennings, Jamie Krakover, Tash McAdam, MJ Moores, Jelani Akin Parham, Selenia Paz, Josh Pritchett, Jeremy Rodden, Aaron Rosenberg, Jenifer Purcell Rosenberg, Jennifer Lee Rossman, JR Rustrian, and Joanna Schnurman.

Featuring illustrations by Jacob Atom, Brandon Bell, Jo Belle, Lyssa Chiavari, Sharon Emmitt, Ben Falco, Fauzy Zulvikar Firmansyah, Christopher Godsoe, Liana Kangas, John Kovalic, MunkyWrench, Josh Pritchett, Emily Smith, and Ronald Suh.