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Top 20 Geek Novels

Posted by Zonk on from the stephenson-has-a-posse dept.

Malacca writes "The Guardian's computer editor Jack Schofield has posted a list of the Top 20 Geek Novels in English since 1932. The polling method is unscientific, but it throws up some interesting choices. Definitions of 'Geek Novels' aside, the usual suspects like Neal Stephenson and William Gibson feature, but Terry Pratchett's 'The Colour of Magic' at #9? Neil Gaiman's "American Gods" at #17?" What would you put on that list?

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  1. Re:True geeks... by Baddas · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They need an automated at-home 'perfect binding' system to solve the problem of digital-to-paper, and an automated book scanner with decent OCR to solve the paper-to-digital problem.
    Only then can I be content.

    Ooh, or perhaps another way to solve my problem would be a roboticized bookshelving system. Ask for a book, put a book back in. No organizing needed.