The Secret Loves of Geek Girls by Hope Nicholson

Don’t let anyone say that you’re late arrivals to the party. The Secret Loves of Geek Girls was a book that offered up all the stories about love and dating we wish we read in teen magazines when we were younger and never saw, said editor Hope. Its full of stories of joy and heartbreak. Our people have always been around, lady geeks. Having backed the original Kickstarter for this book, I was thrilled to hear it was being released by Dark Horse. There are plenty of OGs of female geekdom running around such as Atwood and Elena Kagan, who outed herself as a comics nerd this week with a multitude of goofy Spider-Man jokes in her opinion in Kimble v. But it’s important to be reminded that it’s not a new phenomenon. The Secret Loves Of Geek Girls: Redux (Paperback). Female geekdom is on the rise in recent years, which is partly why you’re seeing such ugly backlashes against it. Explore books by Hope Nicholson with our selection at. These are the stories we bond over when we get together at a comic con, play video games, and marathon Star Trek, said Hope Nicholson. Having a white-haired lady in the mix is a great thing for us all. Originally funded via a high-profile Kickstarter campaign, The Secret Loves of Geek Girls will be available from Dark Horse Comics in both comic book stores and bookstores in October 2016. cat pleased I have long legs at last!,” Atwood jokingly tweeted about her promotional image for the book.

But sci-fi and fantasy, as genres, leave their fingerprints all over Atwood’s work, from the sci-fi novel-within-a-novel of The Blind Assassin to her recently completed Oryx and Crake trilogy of speculative fiction. Her most famous book is, of course, a sci-fi novel, the dystopian classic The Handmaid’s Tale.

Atwood is up there with Stanley Kubrick as a figure who’s helped elevate the literary and artistic status of science fiction, showing mainstream audiences that truly great art can come out of this genre.

The Secret Loves of Geek Girls by Hope Nicholson