{"id":347,"date":"2005-11-30T18:17:52","date_gmt":"2005-12-01T00:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/347"},"modified":"2005-11-30T18:18:48","modified_gmt":"2005-12-01T00:18:48","slug":"book-geeks-geek-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/347","title":{"rendered":"book geeks :: geek books"},"content":{"rendered":"

These are the 20 top geeky books written in English since 1939, according to the Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n

1. The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams 85% (102)
\n2. Nineteen Eighty-Four — George Orwell 79% (92)
\n3. Brave New World — Aldous Huxley 69% (77)
\n4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — Philip Dick 64% (67)
\n5. Neuromancer — William Gibson 59% (66)
\n6. Dune — Frank Herbert 53% (54)
\n7. I, Robot — Isaac Asimov 52% (54)
\n8. Foundation — Isaac Asimov 47% (47)
\n9. The Colour of Magic — Terry Pratchett 46% (46)
\n10. Microserfs — Douglas Coupland 43% (44)
\n11. Snow Crash — Neal Stephenson 37% (37)
\n12. Watchmen — Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons 38% (37)
\n13. Cryptonomicon — Neal Stephenson 36% (36)
\n14. Consider Phlebas — Iain M Banks 34% (35)
\n15. Stranger in a Strange Land — Robert Heinlein 33% (33)
\n16. The Man in the High Castle — Philip K Dick 34% (32)
\n17. American Gods — Neil Gaiman 31% (29)
\n18. The Diamond Age — Neal Stephenson 27% (27)
\n19. The Illuminatus! Trilogy — Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson 23% (21)
\n20. Trouble with Lichen – John Wyndham 21% (19)<\/p>\n

I’ve read six, but I think the other 14 are owned by Jason. I might make it my winter-break goal to read more of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These are the 20 top geeky books written in English since 1939, according to the Guardian. 1. The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams 85% (102) 2. Nineteen Eighty-Four — George Orwell 79% (92) 3. Brave New World — Aldous Huxley 69% (77) 4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — Philip Dick […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bucket-of-sunshine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}