Monday, November 21, 2005

Top 20 Geek Novels

Informal survey was conducted by Jack Schofield, resident computer editor of The Guardian, through Survey Monkey. Results shown below:

  1. The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
  2. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
  3. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
  4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip Dick
  5. Neuromancer - William Gibson
  6. Dune - Frank Herbert
  7. I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
  8. Foundation - Isaac Asimov
  9. The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett
  10. Microserfs - Douglas Coupland
  11. Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
  12. Watchmen - Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
  13. Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
  14. Consider Phlebas - Iain M Banks
  15. Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
  16. The Man in the High Castle - Philip K Dick
  17. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
  18. The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
  19. The Illuminatus! Trilogy - Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson
  20. Trouble with Lichen - John Wyndham
Not so happy that I've only read 5 out of 20. I have Neal Stephenson's books stashed somewhere and Microserfs, so those are next on my reading list.

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