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Top 20 Geek Novels

Old Feb 23, 2006 | 06:30 PM
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Taken from here: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/arc...he_results.html

So far I've read 9, working on Stranger in a Strange Land now...almost 50% geeky! List is below, and I've read the bold ones:

1. The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams
2. Nineteen Eighty-Four -- George Orwell
3. Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley
4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- Philip Dick
5. Neuromancer -- William Gibson
6. Dune -- Frank Herbert
7. I, Robot -- Isaac Asimov
8. Foundation -- Isaac Asimov
9. The Colour of Magic -- Terry Pratchett
10. Microserfs -- Douglas Coupland
11. Snow Crash -- Neal Stephenson
12. Watchmen -- Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
13. Cryptonomicon -- Neal Stephenson
14. Consider Phlebas -- Iain M Banks
15. Stranger in a Strange Land -- Robert Heinlein
16. The Man in the High Castle -- Philip K Dick
17. American Gods -- Neil Gaiman
18. The Diamond Age -- Neal Stephenson
19. The Illuminatus! Trilogy -- Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson
20. Trouble with Lichen - John Wyndham
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Old Feb 23, 2006 | 06:52 PM
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1 and 7

Is that good or bad?
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Old Feb 23, 2006 | 07:03 PM
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1, 6, 8
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Old Feb 23, 2006 | 07:04 PM
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BTW, I clicked on this link just to see if 1 was in the list.
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Old Feb 23, 2006 | 11:27 PM
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I've read half of them. OMG, I am a geek. Of course I already knew this.

Its funny that out of all the Philip K Dick novels, they picked the only two I have read.
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Old Feb 24, 2006 | 01:58 AM
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1 & 2
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Old Feb 24, 2006 | 02:18 AM
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2 & 3. but that's only cuz they were HS english assignments. otherwise, i would have read none of them...
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Old Feb 24, 2006 | 03:43 AM
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I've read 16 of them. I'm not into Terry Pratchett or Neil Gaiman, so my total won't go above 18.
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Old Feb 24, 2006 | 05:53 AM
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2. Nineteen Eighty-Four -- George Orwell

4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- Philip Dick
5. Neuromancer -- William Gibson
6. Dune -- Frank Herbert
7. I, Robot -- Isaac Asimov



11. Snow Crash -- Neal Stephenson

13. Cryptonomicon -- Neal Stephenson




18. The Diamond Age -- Neal Stephenson
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Old Feb 24, 2006 | 05:56 AM
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1 and 6. Did not particularly like either of them.
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