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anyone read Consider Pblebas, Microserfs, Trouble with Lichen, or the two Asimov books? i'm guessing they're worth reading...

I'd have put Microserfs first, or much higher. It's a beautiful book, and very VERY geeky. It's one of my favourate books of all time!

I agree that it should be higher on the list - it's massively geeky. I liked it too, though it wasn't my favorite Douglas Copeland novel by any stretch.

It had legos, though. You've gotta love any book that delves into the connection between geeks and legos.

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ultimate lego geekiness: star wars lego.

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In a few years, Mieville's Perdido Street Station and Clarke's Strange and Norrell might be on such lists.

I second that.

Hmmm, what else? Agree with Brave New World and 1984 transcending geekdom, but yeah, Tolkien should be on there, for sure. I'd say AG and Watchmen made the list because they're both volumes you can buy complete (as opposed to Sandman, where you have to buy 10 - 11. Then again, we are talking about us here, so perhaps it's a moot argument).

What about Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun?

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And yeah, where's Lovecraft?
Try here?

I love Stephenson's writing, but his inability to write an ending is more than a little annoying. I'm not sure I'd put both Snow Crash and Diamond Age in the top 20.

I'd also put Moon is a Harsh Mistress on the list for Heinlein instead of Stranger - really, how geeky is Mike?

I've known geeks who wanted to live like him, and talked about starting 'nests' and stuff.

And i've seen at least one poster use the word 'grok' casually... its made its way into dictionaries. That counts for something, i guess.

But yeah... Moon is a Harsh Mistress or Starship Troopers... power armor, baby!

What about Ender's Game? was that mentioned somewhere?

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ultimate lego geekiness: star wars lego.

Or possibly commercial.

Now this is geeky:

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I love that Foundation by Asimov is on that list. I have found memories of reading that book and the series. I really have to buy it.

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i've posted this before, but it can't be posted enough: Neal Stephenson's awesome Slashdot interview (that also links to Neil's blog)

an excerpt:

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) Who would win? (Score:5, Funny) - by Call Me Black Cloud

In a fight between you and William Gibson, who would win?

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You don't have to settle for mere idle speculation. Let me tell you how it came out on the three occasions when we did fight.

The first time was a year or two after SNOW CRASH came out. I was doing a reading/signing at White Dwarf Books in Vancouver. Gibson stopped by to say hello and extended his hand as if to shake. But I remembered something Bruce Sterling had told me. For, at the time, Sterling and I had formed a pact to fight Gibson. Gibson had been regrown in a vat from scraps of DNA after Sterling had crashed an LNG tanker into Gibson's Stealth pleasure barge in the Straits of Juan de Fuca. During the regeneration process, telescoping Carbonite stilettos had been incorporated into Gibson's arms. Remembering this in the nick of time, I grabbed the signing table and flipped it up between us. Of course the Carbonite stilettos pierced it as if it were cork board, but this spoiled his aim long enough for me to whip my wakizashi out from between my shoulder blades and swing at his head. He deflected the blow with a force blast that sprained my wrist. The falling table knocked over a space heater and set fire to the store. Everyone else fled. Gibson and I dueled among blazing stacks of books for a while. Slowly I gained the upper hand, for, on defense, his Praying Mantis style was no match for my Flying Cloud technique. But I lost him behind a cloud of smoke. Then I had to get out of the place. The streets were crowded with his black-suited minions and I had to turn into a swarm of locusts and fly back to Seattle

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What ? No GEB or Zen and the Art of Motocycle M. on the list ? Some geeks...

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GEB? Whazat?

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GEB = GÃ¶del, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter

It is rather difficult to define, but among other things, it is a witty and pun-ridden treatise on mathematics, art, music, philosophy, linguistics, artificial intelligence, crabs, tortoises and bewildered Roman deities.

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ah yes... i have heard that mentioned alot. but i'm not sure if its a novel

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Maybe not, but it reads like one

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