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Geek Wisdom: The Sacred Teachings of Nerd Culture

N. K. Jemisin

The essential companion for the geek era: a fusion of inspirational quotes, philosophy, and pop culture drawn from the entire cult-classic canon of film, TV, books, comics, and science.

Celebrate nerd culture by taking a page out of your all-time favorites, like Star Wars and Star Trek, The Lord of the Rings and Dune--and much more!

Computer nerds are our titans of industry; comic-book superheroes are our Hollywood idols; the Internet is our night on the town. Clearly, geeks know something about life in the 21st century that other folks don't--something we all can learn from. Geek Wisdom takes as gospel some 200 of the most powerful and oft-cited quotes from movies ("Where we're going, we don't need roads"), television ("Now we know--and knowing is half the battle"), literature ("All that is gold does not glitter"), games, science, the Internet, and more.

Now these beloved pearls of modern-day culture have been painstakingly interpreted by a diverse team of hardcore nerds with their imaginations turned up to 11. Yes, this collection of mini-essays is by, for, and about geeks--but it's just so surprisingly profound, the rest of us would have to be dorks not to read it. So say we all.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Quirk Books
  • Publish Date: Aug 2nd, 2011
  • Pages: 224
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.10in - 5.20in - 1.00in - 0.85lb
  • EAN: 9781594745270
  • Categories: • Form - Anecdotes & Quotations• Popular Culture• Topic - Celebrity & Popular Culture

About the Author

Stephen H. Segal is the Hugo Award winning senior contributing editor to Weird Tales, the world's oldest fantasy/sci-fi/horror magazine, and an editor at Quirk Books. His geek portfolio includes work for Tor Books, Viz Media, and WQED Pittsburgh, and Carnegie Mellon. A native of Atlantic City, he lives in Philadelphia.

Praise for this book

"Very smart looking tome."
--Wired.com

"Geek Wisdom proves that insight needn't come from dusty old tomes and the lips of long-dead philosophers. Maybe C-3P0 isn't Socrates and The Superfriends aren't a French Salon, but that doesn't mean they don't have anything to teach us."
--Suvudu.com

"Geek Wisdom: The Sacred Teaching of Nerd Culture is not only an invaluable guide into geekdom it's also indispensable if you have to go undercover and penetrate a secret geek society."
--Neatorama.com

"Any good story, religious or not, can be deconstructed to find an underlying message. That's the unifying theme of Geek Wisdom, which treats pop culture as a form of secular religion, delivering insights on life from talking robots, flying dragons and everything in between."
--PopMatters

"Premise is nothing short of brilliant."
--Florida Times Union