Top 20 geek novels
Posted at 7:01am on Friday, November 11th, 2005monoman kindly links us to the top 20 geek novels of all time (written in English, since 1932). What a strange selection - where are Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle novels? Where is Jeff Noon (Vurt, Pollen or Nymphomation)? Where is Pattern Recognition And, I hate to ask, but come on… Where is Lord of the Rings?
He’s turned off comments, so I can’t argue with his thoughts about Douglas Coupland (possibly offmessage’s favourite author) - “too self-consciously hip to be a geek”? Nonsense - he epitomises the “I know I am, I know I don’t want to be but I don’t know how to do it” geek persona. And Microserfs is about software and lego… (well, kinda). How can you call that not geeky?
