ToxicPurity's Top 20 Geeky Things
Okay, in response to Skribe's Top 20 Geeky Novels, and with no thought whatsoever, this is my list, in no especial order, of what I consider the top 20 Geeky Books/Films/TV/Whatsits Of All Time:
- Monty Python - any/all
- Douglas Adam's Hitchiker's Guide radio/TV/novels/towel...etc
- The Rubik's Cube
- 2000AD comics (pre-colour, before DC and Marvel poached all their best talent)
- 60s epic SF Films With Something To Say (Planet of the Apes, Alphaville, 2001: A Space Odyssey)
- Star Wars IV: A New Hope (Han shoots first, damnit!)
- J.R.R.Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (without whom the entire fantasy genre would not exist and to whom all subsequent fantasy authors and gaming entites owe their livelihoods)
- William Gibson's Neuromancer (when SF became cool)
- Alan Moore's & Dave Gibbon's Watchmen (when the comic book became the graphic novel ie. serious literature)
- Neil Gaiman's Sandman series (when comics became cool)
- Thunderbirds
- The Prisoner (there was, and never will be, anything like this again)
- pre-CGI-era film special effects (all hail the immortal hand of Ray Harryhausen)
- Ultraman (and basically anything the Japanese mass-produced for kiddy TV really)
- BBC SF TV (from Quatermass to Dr Who to Blake's 7 to Red Dwarf)
- Superfriends (and other cartoons produced by Hanna-Barbera, without which Harvey Birdman: Attorney At Law wouldn't be half as much fun)
- Star Trek (the original)
- Computers (both imagined and actual, the more blinking lights the better)
- Robots (this should be a Top 20 list all by itself)
- Dinosaurs (mythical monsters that really existed? Sure geeky)
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