Top 20 Geek Novels
So someone did a survey and came up with the top 20 geek novels. I have to say I'm underwhelmed by their choices, so here are mine:
- Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkein
- Startide Rising* - David Brin
- Neuromancer* - William Gibson
- Watchmen - Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
- The Stainless Steel Rat* - Harry Harrison
- Nine Princes in Amber* - Roger Zelazny
- Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
- Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
- Starship Troopers - Robert A. Heinlein
- Quarantine - Greg Egan
- Ringworld - Larry Niven
- Lord of Light - Roger Zelazny
- Dune - Frank Herbert
- The Eyre Affair* - Jasper Fforde
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy* - Douglas Adams
- 2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
- Magician* - Raymond E. Feist
- Pawn of Prophecy* - David Eddings
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe* - C.S. Lewis
- The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett
* - first book in a notable series
1 comment:
What qualifies as a "geeky novel" in the first place?
My thinking is it must have produced ideas that significantly impacted on geek culture, literature, and ideology in some way, or at the very least, be eminently quotable :)
Therefore, my list would've included Neil Gaiman's Preludes & Nocturnes as opposed to American Gods in the original list, for example, and Lewis Carroll's Alice In Wonderland in either over say, David Brin's or Aldous Huxley's work. That's not to say they didn't write great science-fiction, but I don't regard great science fiction as being neccessarily the same thing as geeky.
And is there anything geekier than Monty Python? :)
That's it, I'm gonna make up my own list of Great Geeky Things. Novels is just too limiting.
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