Rachel Stuhler and
Melissa Blue, along with Cathy Yardley and Cecilia Tan, are the writers of
Geek Actually. One of their five top books celebrating geek culture, as shared at Tor.com:
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
On the other end of the spectrum is the granddaddy of geek, Hitchhiker’s Guide. It isn’t just a touchstone of the culture, it’s also a celebration of it. Arthur Dent has a best friend named Ford Prefect and that doesn’t strike him as bizarre. Sure, he’s dismayed when he discovers the world is about to end, but he catches up to the whole “Don’t Panic” philosophy pretty quick. Trillian gives up an average life to rocket through the stars with an alien moron, and bad poetry is used as a form of torture for the Vogons. And who among us wouldn’t like to build luxury planets in our spare time? Adams created a cast of nerd-tacular characters who wouldn’t seem at all out of place at a con.
Read about
the other entries on the list.
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy appears on
Fredrik Backman's six favorite books list,
Jon Walter's top ten list of heroes of refugee fiction,
Becky Ferreira's list of the six most memorable robots in literature, Charlie Jane Anders's lists of
the ten most unbelievable alien races in science fiction,
eleven books that every aspiring television writer should read and
ten satirical novels that could teach you to survive the future,
Saci Lloyd's top ten list of political books for teenagers,
Rob Reid's list of 6 favorite books,
Esther Inglis-Arkell's list of ten of the best bars in science fiction,
Don Calame's top ten list of funny teen boy books, and
John Mullan's list of ten of the best instances of invisibility in literature.
--Marshal Zeringue
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