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[digitaldiscipline]

The ones I've read are in bold.

1. The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams
2. 1984 -- George Orwell
3. Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley
4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- Philip Dick
5. Neuromancer -- William Gibson
6. Dune -- Frank Herbert
7. I, Robot -- Isaac Asimov
8. Foundation -- Isaac Asimov
9. The Colour of Magic -- Terry Pratchett
10. Microserfs -- Douglas Coupland
11. Snow Crash -- Neal Stephenson
12. Watchmen -- Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
13. Cryptonomicon -- Neal Stephenson
14. Consider Phlebas -- Iain M Banks
15. Stranger in a Strange Land -- Robert Heinlein
16. The Man in the High Castle -- Philip K Dick
17. American Gods -- Neil Gaiman
18. The Diamond Age -- Neal Stephenson
19. The Illuminatus! Trilogy -- Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson
20. Trouble with Lichen - John Wyndham

Maybe I'll pick from this for the Atlanta trip. . . .

[from http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/archives/2005/11/09/top_20_geek_novels_the_results.html]

Comments

[bynner.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Trouble with Lichen I'd definitely recommend! In fact, any of John Wyndham's stuff is good... The Kraken Wakes, Day of the Triffids, The Midwich Cuckoos, etc. They've made films of a lot of them, but even if you've seen those, the books are quite good.

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

The Colour of Magic is only worth the time for the sake of completeness. Mort or Guards! Guards! are much better Discworld books to start with. Also, one can skip FaustEric.

[mighty-man.livejournal.com]

Dune is a pretty dry read...a very long, long book. If you liked the movie, you'll like the book and probably the sequels as well. If you didn't like the movies, you won't like the books. At all.
BTW -- I highly recommend the Sci-Fi Channel remake of Dune and also Children of Dune (though the later was a tad confusing in some places).

I *think* I read Asimov's I, Robot when I was really young, but I don't remember it very well. When I watched the Will Smith movie, none if it rang a bell. Wasn't sure if it was just poor memory of the read, or if I totally read a different book.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I kind of figured that about Dune. The snippets of the movie and remake left me bored off my ass, so I'm not going to bother attacking the books.