Geek Novels
Gravity Lens recommends this list of the top 20 geek novels. A few comments/confessions:
I have read only nine of them. Pathetic! If I had not read Brave New World a month ago, it would be eight.Here's a Friday bonus: the glossary of sci-fi inventions. I liked the skull gun and the chevaline, both from The Diamond Age. Neo-Victorianism is the future, people!
I suppose I really need to give Philip K. Dick a try.
Neal Stephenson is a true übergeek. I can particularly recommend The Diamond Age, in which Stephenson places a heroine of unrelenting geekiness (that's good) who is also very human (I mean that in a good way) -- no mean feat. Yes, she kills people with a samurai sword and uses logic to escape from the evil computer in the castle of the Duke of Turing (well, not really, but... oh, never mind) but believe me, the kid is adorable. Honestly. And you have to admire those neo-Victorians.
Umie the Umlaut says, "ask your doctor about the Fredösphere!"
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Since you and I live in parallel worlds, it's no surprise that I did read most of Philip K. Dick's novels in my youth. I have no desire to reread them now but at the time, I couldn't get enough...
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