Geek books!

[gridlore]

Ganked from bunyip


Bold what you've read and liked, strike what you've read and disliked, italicise what you want to read.

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 K. 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

Comments

[biomekanic.livejournal.com]

I'd heartily recommend the Pratchett's books, while the early Discworld novels are primarily parody, the series rapidly grows legs of it's own and becomes a very well told world.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

I've never really enjoyed his style. Just a personal taste thing, I also dislike most of Asimov's short fiction.