title: She's Such a Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology, and Other Nerdy Stuff
author:  Annalee Newitz 
description: This jubilant if uneven anthology of 24 essays spotlights women who write comic books for a living, get caught up in their favorite role-playing games and win "sexiest geek alive" contests by sporting a corset made out of circuit boards. Though editors Newitz (<I>Pretend We're Dead</I>) and Anders (<I>Choir Boy</I>) celebrate women's technical accomplishments and nerdy hobbies, several contributors also discuss their encounters with sexist discrimination. Programmer Kory Wells remembers the professor who complimented her skills by saying she was "really, really good, for a girl," while Mara Poulsen recalls programming videogames for a company whose female characters were ridiculously underdressed. Ranging from engineers and biophysicists to a high school student, the irrepressible contributors write with varying levels of eloquence, but their passions run equally high, whether they're portraying a Harry Potter character in an online community or gaining early acceptance at MIT. <I>(Jan.)</I> <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR
  
  
  Vanessa Potter is a former television producer turned science communicator.
  Since her illness, Vanessa has worked on science-art projects with
  neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge, given a TEDx talk in Ghent,
  Belgium, and written several articles for _The Telegraph, Marie Claire_ and
  _Mosaic Science_. Vanessa is currently working on a collaborative EEG project
  with her science friends at Cambridge. She lives in London with her husband
  and two children.
  
  
  Also available in the Bloomsbury Sigma series:
  
  
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  _Chilled_ by Tom Jackson
  
  
  _A is for Arsenic_ by Kathryn Harkup
  
  
  _Breaking the Chains of Gravity_ by Amy Shira Teitel
  
  
  _Suspicious Minds_ by Rob Brotherton
  
  
  _Herding Hemingway’s Cats_ by Kat Arney
  
  
  _Electronic Dreams_ by Tom Lean
  
  
  _Sorting the Beef from the Bull_ by Richard Evershed and
  
  
  Nicola Temple
  
  
  _Death on Earth_ by Jules Howard
  
  
  _The Tyrannosaur Chronicles_ 