The Language of Power: Women vs Tech
By Author Jessica Mae Stover
By Author Jessica Mae Stover
An original list curated by science fiction author and researcher Jessica Mae Stover, whose titles include the techie novels Astral Fall and Impress of the Seventh Surge.
Note: All stories listed have high-quality manuscript production and are feminist works.
No One Is Talking about This
Patricia Lockwood
$17.00 $15.81One influencer and her absurd Twitter account.
Kentukis / Little Eyes: A Novel
Samanta Schweblin
$15.95 $14.83Users of a new IoT device explore its possibilities. (Note: Bookshop sometimes goes out of stock on the English translation titled, LITTLE EYES. This is the Spanish-language version. This book is so cool and is important to the list, so I wanted to find a way to direct you to find it should that occur during your visit.)
Exhalation
Ted Chiang
$18.00 $16.74Novella: The Life Cycle of Software Objects (and more!) As a virtual social game falls into disuse, programmers work to keep the AI inhabitants they raised alive.
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Caroline Criado Perez
$18.00 $16.74The only non-fiction book on this list. A researcher investigates the life-altering patterns of gender inequality in data and technology.
The Steerswoman
Rosemary Kirstein
$11.99A cartographer sets out to understand the science of magic. My notes on this series can be found here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2828334863 Series: Steerswoman #1
Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang
$18.00 $16.74Short story: Liking What You See, A Documentary (and more!) Teens struggle with ending their use of a technology they grew up with, and have never lived without.
Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie
$17.99 $16.73A gargantuan spaceship AI with an eye for revenge (and no eye for gender) is forced to become a human woman.
Catfishing on Catnet
Naomi Kritzer
$14.99 $13.94A teen living off-the-grid with her mother discovers one of her online friends is an AI who only wants to help people. (The manuscript production on this is not as much literary fiction-level as with the rest of the list since it's YA, but it's also very, very fun!)
We Are Watching Eliza Bright
A E Osworth
$17.99 $16.73A video game coder begins a new job at a VR company.
How many of these have you read? Let me know!