Top 20 'Geek" Novels

[JediMistressDragon]

This was posted on a website the results of a poll of top 20 'geek' novles.
JMD

From a poll obviously.


blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/archives/2005/11/09/top_20_geek_novels_the_results.html
Top 20 geek novels -- the results!
By Jack Schofield / Media 06:14am


1. The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams 85% (102)
2. Nineteen Eighty-Four -- George Orwell 79% (92)
3. Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley 69% (77)
4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- Philip Dick 64% (67)
5. Neuromancer -- William Gibson 59% (66)
6. Dune -- Frank Herbert 53% (54)
7. I, Robot -- Isaac Asimov 52% (54)
8. Foundation -- Isaac Asimov 47% (47)
9. The Colour of Magic -- Terry Pratchett 46% (46)
10. Microserfs -- Douglas Coupland 43% (44)
11. Snow Crash -- Neal Stephenson 37% (37)
12. Watchmen -- Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons 38% (37)
13. Cryptonomicon -- Neal Stephenson 36% (36)
14. Consider Phlebas -- Iain M Banks 34% (35)
15. Stranger in a Strange Land -- Robert Heinlein 33% (33)
16. The Man in the High Castle -- Philip K Dick 34% (32)
17. American Gods -- Neil Gaiman 31% (29)
18. The Diamond Age -- Neal Stephenson 27% (27)
19. The Illuminatus! Trilogy -- Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson 23% (21)
20. Trouble with Lichen - John Wyndham 21% (19)

[Seda Navilli]

The top two books are two of my all time favourites!

Does that make me a geek? No thats right, the computer desk covered in lightsaber replicas does.

;D

[Solinbeb Newau]

jedimistressdragon said:

This was posted on a website the results of a poll of top 20 'geek' novles.
JMD

1. The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams 85% (102)
2. Nineteen Eighty-Four -- George Orwell 79% (92)
3. Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley 69% (77)
4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- Philip thingy 64% (67)
5. Neuromancer -- William Gibson 59% (66)
6. Dune -- Frank Herbert 53% (54)
7. I, Robot -- Isaac Asimov 52% (54)
8. Foundation -- Isaac Asimov 47% (47)
9. The Colour of Magic -- Terry Pratchett 46% (46)
10. Microserfs -- Douglas Coupland 43% (44)
11. Snow Crash -- Neal Stephenson 37% (37)
12. Watchmen -- Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons 38% (37)
13. Cryptonomicon -- Neal Stephenson 36% (36)
14. Consider Phlebas -- Iain M Banks 34% (35)
15. Stranger in a Strange Land -- Robert Heinlein 33% (33)
16. The Man in the High Castle -- Philip K thingy 34% (32)
17. American Gods -- Neil Gaiman 31% (29)
18. The Diamond Age -- Neal Stephenson 27% (27)
19. The Illuminatus! Trilogy -- Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson 23% (21)
20. Trouble with Lichen - John Wyndham 21% (19)

Hmmmm....

Hitchhiker's I actually keep in my car for long trips.
1984 I've read...twice.
Dune...I have the series.
I, Robot, Foundation...Both somewhere in my parent's house as they didn't make it into a box when I moved out.
The Colour of Magic - my wife got it for me.
Stranger in a Strange Land...read it, don't own it.

I need to find a copy of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, though.

[JediMistressDragon]

I need to find a copy of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, though. <<<<

www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345404475/103-9542892-4034246?v=glance&n=283155&s=books&v=glance I have couple Dick novels in the house.
JMD

[Mon-Jas Charan]

I'm surprised that "Deep Dark Tea Time of the Soul' and 'Future Shock' were not on the list.

[Ani-Chay Pinn]

Hrrrrrmmmmphhh!!!! Looks like the male, chauvinist geek list to me. No Anne McCaffrey? No Mercedes Lackey? And I'm also partial to Barbara Hambly and Lois Bujold has written some of the BEST space opera out there.

And what geek list is complete without "Bimbos of the Death Sun" on it?

[Cara Drume]

Oh, brother! Yeah, where IS the Anne McCaffrey? She's my favorite author!

[Mon-Jas Charan]

My favorite author is Wilson Tucker, "Year of the Quiet Sun" is my favorite.

[Jedimom/Cor-Al Gelkar]

Hitch-Hiker's Guide!!!!

[JediMistressDragon]

And what geek list is complete without "Bimbos of the Death Sun" on it?<<<

That's a mystery novel. yes, it's set in a scifi convention, which looks like the author has attended to pin characters and so forth so well, but nothing otherwise scifi. I actually have that book, had to work and hubby got her sig to it for me when she signed at my local library.
But it's a mystery novel.
JMD

[Starkindler (The Naked Jedi)]

Top 20 geek novels -- My Geekiness revealed!!!

The ones I've read:
1. The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams (On my Winter's reading list)
2. Nineteen Eighty-Four -- George Orwell
3. Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley (read twice)
4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- Philip thingy
6. Dune -- Frank Herbert 53% (read twice/own both movie versions)
7. I, Robot -- Isaac Asimov 52% (54)
13. Cryptonomicon -- Neal Stephenson 36% (36)
15. Stranger in a Strange Land -- Robert Heinlein 33% (own leather bound gold edged collector's version)

I would add to the list:

21. The Dayworld Trilogy - Phillip Jose Farmer
22. World of Tiers series - Phillip Jose Farmer
23. The Chronicles of Amber series - Roger Zelazny
24. Anything by Tolkien
25. The Physics of Star Trek - Laurence Krauss
26. Understanding Physics - Issac Asimov
27. In Search of Shrodinger's cat - John Gribbin
28. Any dictionary (if not school related)
29. Hardware Bible- Winn L. Rosch

plus more if I could remember them..............
;D

The Dragon riders of Pern was one of my favorite series way back........
what about Myth Adventures?

[Starkindler (The Naked Jedi)]

All time 100 novels:
www.time.com/time/2005/100books/the_complete_list.html

Hmmmm....I've only read 11 of them.

[rebelscum]

jedimistressdragon said:

4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- Philip thingy 64% (67)
16. The Man in the High Castle -- Philip K thingy 34% (32)

"Phillip K thingy" ?? Somebody check the foul language filter. I think it's set too high.

[Ani-Chay Pinn]

--snicker-- Yeah, it's not a very smart censor droid, but I think it comes with the forum space and there are no adjustments for it.

[Seda Navilli]

Well hey, if droids could think, there'd be none of us here, would there?