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    Geek Canon

    I found this off Snow Crash's wikipedia entry (mentioned in another thread) and I thought it was interesting: A canon for geekdom.

    What do people think? I think it's missing a few SF books, as well as ASoIaF for fantasy. Required art topics should include Julia set fractals, maybe a knowledge of ASCII art. Music...dunno. Television is missing nBSG, maybe Mythbusters? RPGs...GURPS, maybe? Or Battletech? Computer games are definitely missing MoO and M.U.L.E.

    What would you add or remove?
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    I'd remove geeks.
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      • #4
        This will probably take a while, so apologies if anyone should post any of this before I'm done. [Edit: nevermind. ]

        Y'know, other than anime, they skipped everything comic book/graphic novel related, didn't they?

        Some of this is old school....

        Books, Sci Fi
        David Brin's Uplift series
        Fred Saberhagen's Berserker series
        Asimov's Robot stories
        Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game
        David Weber - Honor Harrington series
        Walter Jon Williams - Hardwired
        George RR Martin, et al. - Wild Cards series (superpowered humans created by alien virus)
        Philip Jose Farmer - Riverworld series

        various - Star Wars books

        Books, Fantasy
        George RR Martin, A Song of Ice & Fire series
        Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time series
        Robert E. Howard (and others) - Conan series
        Michael Moorcock - Elric of Melnibone series
        Roger Zelazny - Amber series
        Fritz Leiber - Fafhrd & Gray Mouser series

        Terri Windling - Borderland, Bordertown (fantasy cyberpunk)

        Comic Books/ Graphic Novels
        Dark Knight Returns
        Watchmen
        Batman
        Superman
        Spiderman
        Fantastic Four
        Hulk
        X-Men

        Comic Strips
        Dilbert
        User Friendly
        PVP

        RPGs
        Hero System - Champions, Fantasy Hero
        Chaosium - Call of Cthulhu
        Game Designers Workshop - Traveller

        Non Computer Games
        Starfleet Battles
        Flying Buffalo - Nuclear War/Escalation/Proliferation (Nuke 'em till they glow!)
        Steve Jackson Games - Illuminati, Hacker
        Magic the Gathering

        Computer Games
        Diablo
        Deus Ex
        Rainbow 6
        Fallout
        Descent
        Command & Conquer
        Warcraft, Starcraft
        World of Warcraft
        Everquest
        Jedi Knight
        X-Wing, Tie Fighter (or whatever they were called)
        Icewind Dale
        Baldur's Gate
        Neverwinter Nights
        Might & Magic

        Film
        The Terminator
        Alien
        LOTR
        Weird Science
        Real Genius
        Batman
        Superman
        Spiderman
        X-Men
        Fantastic Four
        Serenity

        TV
        The X Files
        Stargate SG-1
        Batman (Adam West)
        Wonder Woman (Lynda Carter )
        Spiderman, Hulk, Thor cartoons
        Batman (cartoon)
        Married with Children

        Music
        Rush - Countdown (Hey, it's about the space shuttle.)
        Styx - Mr Roboto
        Led Zeppelin - The Battle of Evermore
        The Who - Pinball Wizard

        Art
        Teh internet was made for pr0n!
        Last edited by Lord Avalon; December 15, 2006, 21:54.
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          TV
          3rd Rock from the Sun (especially episodes with William Shatner as The Big Giant Head)
          Night Court - episode where Bull buys the Shatner Turbo 2000 toupee
          SNL - Conehead skits, skit where Shatner tells Star Trek convention geeks to get a life
          Comedy Central Roast of William Shatner
          My Favorite Martian
          Lost in Space
          Buck Rogers
          The Twilight Zone
          Mork & Mindy
          Monty Python's Flying Circus
          Dark Angel

          Music
          David Bowie - Space Oddity
          Elton John - Rocket Man (or the version where Shatner "sings" it - painful)
          Deep Purple - Space Truckin'
          Joe Satriani - Borg Sex, Surfing with the Alien

          Film
          Heavy Metal
          Monty Python films
          Excalibur
          Last edited by Lord Avalon; December 15, 2006, 22:43.
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          • #6
            But a lot of those suck?
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            • #7
              Geeks suck too, so I suppose it makes sense.
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              • #8
                3d rock from the sun is not a geek show
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                I cannot let my life be ruled by threads" The Web Frogs
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                • #9
                  My qualifications, although I should add that although I've read the books, I don't read anything even remotely like them these days. But then your youth is the time to make these mistakes, right?

                  Originally posted by Lord Avalon

                  Books, Sci Fi
                  Asimov's Robot stories
                  Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game

                  Books, Fantasy
                  Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time series

                  Comic Strips
                  Dilbert

                  RPGs
                  None from your list, although I played D&D, AD&D and a few derivatives once upon a time

                  Computer Games
                  Baldur's Gate
                  Neverwinter Nights (for extra geek credit, as a player, builder and DM. )

                  Film
                  The Terminator
                  Alien
                  LOTR
                  Batman
                  Superman (none of these are favourites, but I have seen them all)

                  TV
                  The X Files (seen it once)
                  Stargate SG-1 (again, once only)
                  Married with Children (er, only dubbed in French. )
                  I've also seen Star Trek a few times, in its various guises, and a lad I lived with at university used to love the one with Patrick Stewart in, so I've seen that quite a lot.

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                  • #10
                    The book list must include Dune, and Stephen R. Donaldson's Triliogies of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever.

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                    • #11
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                      • #12
                        What's with Greek artillery?
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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by BeBro
                          What's with Greek artillery?
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                          • #14
                            Niven is another author that many Geeks like for no good reason.

                            JM
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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
                              Geeks suck too, so I suppose it makes sense.
                              I thought geeks were in now?

                              Hmm...probably should throw in stuff like Mythical Man-Hour and the Cathedral and the Bazaar, too, but that might be getting into geek subcultures rather than the renaissance geek.
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