There was a poll in the Guardian Technology blog and these were the Top 20. The ones in bold I have read.
- The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
- Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
- Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip Dick
- Neuromancer – William Gibson
- Dune – Frank Herbert
- I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
- Foundation – Isaac Asimov
- The Colour of Magic – Terry Pratchett
- Microserfs – Douglas Coupland
- Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson
- Watchmen – Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
- Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
- Consider Phlebas – Iain M Banks
- Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
- The Man in the High Castle – Philip K Dick
- American Gods – Neil Gaiman
- The Diamond Age – Neal Stephenson
- The Illuminatus! Trilogy – Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson
- Trouble with Lichen – John Wyndham
(and I’m no geek!)
Only number 9 for me….wouldn’t have considered TP to be geek material though 🙂
Damn, I’ve only read 1984…
Ive only read the Pratchett one as well. Although I have seen the film of I, Robot…does that count?:smile:
Snowcrash is great, got to love a writer who’s lead’s called Hiro Protagonist :).
1, 4, 6, 7, 8, 11, 14, 15 & 18 for me.
#1, 2, 7, 11, 13. Although… I want to read 4, 5, and 18, so I suppose that brings me to an eventual total of 8. Not so bad for a minor geekling.
1, 4, 5, 9 and 19 for me. Must get around to getting some by Neal Stephenson… and Isaac Asimov … and …