Top 20 geek novels — the results! from Guardian Unlimited: Technology
Ones in green are those I’ve read:
- The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams
- Nineteen Eighty-Four — George Orwell
- Brave New World — Aldous Huxley
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — Philip Dick
- Neuromancer — William Gibson
- Dune — Frank Herbert
- I, Robot — Isaac Asimov
- Foundation — Isaac Asimov
- The Colour of Magic — Terry Pratchett
- Microserfs — Douglas Coupland
- Snow Crash — Neal Stephenson
- Watchmen — Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
- Cryptonomicon — Neal Stephenson
- Consider Phlebas — Iain M Banks
- Stranger in a Strange Land — Robert Heinlein
- The Man in the High Castle — Philip K Dick
- American Gods — Neil Gaiman
- The Diamond Age — Neal Stephenson
- The Illuminatus! Trilogy — Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson
- Trouble with Lichen - John Wyndham
More than halfway!
Dude, you really should read “American Gods”. It is very good. Not so sure about the other Gaiman book I’ve read (”Anansi Boys”) but “American Gods” was good.
Does that mean I’m a nerd?
14 hours, 58 minutes after the fact.
Rudy Rucker’s White Light should be on that list
5 days, 1 hour after the fact.