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BRAVE NEW GIRLS: Tales of Girls who Tech and Tinker

​Stories are listed alphabetically by title.

A DDREAM THAT FLIES

by Andrew K. Hoe

Sixteen-year-old Jen and fourteen-year-old Devi are part of a poor planetary settlers group, whose claim to a promising ice world (Leda) is overtaken by the mega-corporation Xyletics. The sisters must work together to find out why Xyletics is so desperate to get their hands on Leda before their war fleet arrives.

THE ADVENTURE OF THE CRAB BISQUE

by M.L.D. Curelas

Carrie Wheelwright helps her sister uncover a saboteur during a formal dinner at the American embassy.

ARMS: A ROBOT REPAIR GIRL STORY

by Josh Pritchett

In her latest adventure, Madison Brown returns, this time to help a young pop star named Ashtad who was abducted by Madison's old enemies, the AIE. When she meets Ashtad, Madison learns about a plot against people with cybernetic limbs. Madison must all of her skills in robotics and martial arts to save millions of people around the world.

BETA TEST

by A.A. Jankiewicz

When a distress call in space gets picked up by the crew of the Magna, desperate times call for desperate measures. Skyris is asked once more to prove that she is more than just her title.

THE BETTER MOUSETRAP

by Thomas Gondolfi

A young woman wants a colony on Mars and comes up with a plan to cut the cost by 25% to make it financially feasible.

BEYOND THE CLOUDS, THE STARS

by M.M. Davies-Ostrom

A girl on a rundown planet dreams of a better life.

BY CYBERNETIC MEANS

by Caroline David

Two hacker girls use their skills to uncover the truth.

BYE BYE, KURONAI

by Blake Jessop

Dyslexia, beauty tips, overbearing parents, and the end-of-semester crunch are all normal high school challenges for Amina. Less normal is getting along with the new girl in class... particularly when she's an AI from Tokyo preparing to take the Turing Test.

CENTURION

by J.R. Rustrian

Leona, a young inventor, and her friends celebrate the one year anniversary of their hit shield invention, the Hoplite. While they tout their success, a rival inventor seeks to overshadow Leona with her own similar portable invention, forcing Leona to come up with a better and more advanced device to compete.

CHLOE'S LAST STAND

by Russ Colchamiro

A teen girl travels to another planet on an epic adventure.

CRITICAL BREAKDOWN

by T.A. Hernandez

In the aftermath of an alien invasion, a young mechanic and her trusty robot companion set out to recover the medicine that will save their people from a devastating illness. There's just one problem - their transport is in bad condition, and breaking down in the middle of the desert could mean death for them and all who are counting on them.When an explosion traps Ailli, a summer intern at a lab that specializes in bioengineering plants, and her lab mate, it's up to her to come up with a plan to get them out.

ESCAPE FROM ARXIA PRIME

by Joanna Schnurman

When the crew of the Cydonia takes on a new ally with links to the underworld, a heist takes an unexpected turn. Kaja must be more creative than ever before with her inventions because now, hundreds of lives hang in the balance.

THE GADGET BROKER

by Jelani-Akin Parham

An early college student who peddles inventions on the side to other heroes, Claire finds herself suddenly having to defend herself when a favorite client thinks she knows too much.

THE GIRL WITH SILVER FEET

by Jennifer Lee Rossman

In this retelling of the Wizard of Oz, a girl arrives on an alien planet and accidentally becomes the savior everybody has been waiting for. She doesn't know what she's doing, but luckily the prosthetic feet she stole seem to have a few ideas.

GOOD VIBES

by Raphael Sutton

Francine Adams, a young high schooler, is offered the chance to help develop new uses for vibetech, the vibration based technology that runs much of the world. If she is allowed to do it, she might just get an idea of what being a scientist is really like.

INES OF CARTER STATION

by J.D. Cadmon

A teen living on a space station orbiting Jupiter realizes there is something wrong on Ganymede after she stops getting messages from her parents, who work on the moon as miners. She has to use all her cleverness to prove something happened.

JESSIE JET

by Glen Damien Campbell

In a post-apocalyptic desert waste land, where drag racing is the most popular sport, Jessie Jet is an idealistic young engineer who hopes to win a drag race with a new breed of dragster that might also be a harbinger of a better future.

JUPITER JINX

by Kris Katzen

On a Jupiter colony, 16-year-old prodigy Kasey goes in for an entrance exam into a PhD program. But then the power abruptly goes out, plungingthe station into chaos.

OVERRIDE

by Janina Franck

Pin is a girl who has spent her life in an apartment with an android, her studies and living conditions heavily regulated. When she finds out that not only she's a clone, but her heart will be used for a transplant shortly, her only choice is to run away, by tempering with the codes restricting the facility where she is kept.

PLEASE ASSIST

by Denise Sutton

Rebecca, a depressed, bullied high school sophomore finds her purpose when contacted by an alien robot species.

RAINMAKER

by Julie Bragdon

Emily Rainmaker, a student at the Starbright Academy for Exceptionally Gifted Students, is using her Great Grams' notes to rebuild the Farkas Atmospheric Pulse Ionizer - it's going to be the centrepiece of her entry into the Centennial Science Contest of 2200. She's determined to both win the scholarship to USask and prove that her Great Grams' did make a breakthrough discovery from cloudseeding to actual weather modification - even if living in the controlled environment of the Saskatoon Dome makes rainmaking irrelevant.

RETURN TO TOP

THE RECEIVER OF WRECKS

by Claire McCague

When a mysterious, bright object drifts by the orbit of their farm, Flippa and her siblings send out a remote vehicle to investigate. 

THE RELUCTANT NERD

by Paige Daniels

A teen girl at a superhero-training facility encounters more than she bargained for. 

THE ROBOTICS BADGE

by Margaret A. Hanson

A pair of Girl Guides earn their robotics badge by taking on the robot uprising.

SAVE THE FIGHTING MARMALOOTS

by Monty Harper

Betty, the young clerk in a far-future pet shop, is goaded by her would-be boyfriend and an intelligent talking bird into an attempt at saving a troupe of fighting marmaloots from their violent fates and accidentally alters a man’s genes in the process. To preserve her chances of ever becoming a genetic engineer she must find a way to make amends.

SCRAPS

by George Ebey

At the conclusion of a devastating war, a caravan of soldiers embarks on a long journey back to its capital city. In their wake is a group of refugees, displaced from their homes and following the soldiers in hopes that they will be led to sanctuary. But the leader of the caravan, a cruel General with nothing but contempt for wayward people, refuses to provide them with food for the journey. That is until one of them, a girl named Auddy, uses her skills to challenge him with a desperate act of defiance.

SOMEONE ELSE'S EARTH

by Mary Fan

On a post-alien-invasion earth, a teen runaway encounters a genetically engineered wolf and discovers the truth behind the world's extra-terrestrial occupiers.

WHEELCHAIRS IN SPACE

by Nicole Iversen

​While Jacinta is volunteering at The Terrestrial Academy of Galactic Safety, the Space Rangers apprehend a dangerous space pirate. The pirate asks for Jacinta by name. What could a space pirate want with a sixteen year old girl?

ZOWSZA

by Mackenzie Reide

​It is six months since Hannah saved ZOWS from space pirates. Now employed as a junior engineer, she is concentrating on upgrading the systems so the reactor can never be sabotaged again. While she enjoys her work, she still feels like an outsider. She keeps to her quarters, except to visit Warbler, who is now her supervisor. Meanwhile, her best friend, George, is determined to feed her the most nutrient-dense cockroaches and grasshoppers in the galaxy.
The arrival of a tutor brings more than just text books. A hot-shot professor of engineering travels to ZOWS to teach her everything about coding. Including code from the stolen drive Hannah had found. Even though the drive has technical problems, there are still many forces at work that want to get their claws on it and they are converging on the station as we speak…'
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