Top 20 geek novels

The Guardian technology blog has published its list of top 20 geek novels. Perhaps unsurpringly, Hitchhiker's Guide is at number 1. Not sure what American Gods in doing in there (I liked it but it's not a geek book - more a huge slab of whimsy.) Same with Microserfs (great book but Douglas Coupland is too self-consciously hip to be a geek author.) IMHO, Neuromancer, Snow Crash, Illuminatus!, all the Asimov and Dick deserve to be there. In fact, why isn't the entire list full of Dick classics?? There are some omissions - what about M John Harrison, Jeff Noon, Samual R Delany, Moorcock, Ballard..?

Posted by monoman at 01:04 PM on November 09, 2005