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McNamara, Laura A

Top geek novels

A geeky observation: I realized later, looking more carefully at the
Guardian blog piece, that the sample consisted of only 130 some
odd-people, and self-selecting at that. Not valid.

That said, I'm wasting time here, making a reading list for Thanksgiving
weekend. Gonna go spend some book money today! Haven't read Neal
Stephenson... Looks good.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On
Behalf Of Owen Densmore
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 4:32 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Top geek novels

10

And I completely agree about the bias and odd left-outs.

-- Owen

Owen Densmore
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On Nov 22, 2005, at 3:57 PM, McNamara, Laura A wrote:

> I've read 5 or 6 of them....
>
> At the risk of sounding like one of those whiny feminists that Rush
> Limbaugh routinely bashes, I note that these are all male authors, so
> that might explain why this particular female geek isn't as familiar
> with these books. But there are some great geek novels written by
> women!
> I'm a huge Ursula LeGuin fan, for example. I'm surprised she's not on
> that list. The Dispossessed is one of the best books I've ever read.
> So is The Left Hand of Darkness. Unforgettable.
>
> Laura
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Friam-bounces at redfish.com [mailto:Friam-bounces at redfish.com] On
> Behalf Of Russell Standish
> Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 3:46 PM
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Top geek novels
>
> For me, 7 out of the 20. The interesting thing is that 5 of these were

> in the top 8, and another 2 of the top 8 are novels I definitely want
> to read when I get a round tuit (only got square ones here :). So you
> get good agreement with me!
>
> Cheers
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 03:22:16PM -0700, J T Johnson wrote:
>> Who amongst us has not read at least one of these? Who's read them
> all?
>>
>>> From Ex Libris: an E-Zine for Librarians and Other Information
> Junkies.
>> http://marylaine.com/exlibris/
>> Copyright, Marylaine Block, 1999-2005.
>>
>>
>> "Top 20 Geek Novels
>> http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/archives/2005/11/09/
>> top_20_geek
>> _novels_the_results.html
>>
>> Here's an idea for a display, a program, and a contest at your
>> library
>
>> (because not everybody's going to agree with this list). Whoever's
>> read the most of these titles gets to run the program."
>>
>> -tj
>>
>> --
>> ==============================================
>> J. T. Johnson
>> Institute for Analytic Journalism
>> www.analyticjournalism.com <http://www.analyticjournalism.com>
>> 505.577.6482 (c) 505.473.9646(h)
>> http://www.jtjohnson.com tom at jtjohnson.com
>>
>> "He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense."
>> -John McCarthy, Stanford University mathematician
>> ==============================================
>
>> ============================================================
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>
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Douglas Roberts-2

Top geek novels

Laura,

I never knew you were a geek. Who would'a thought. Did you used to wear
glasses?

--Doug

On 11/22/05, McNamara, Laura A <lamcnam at sandia.gov> wrote:

>
> A geeky observation: I realized later, looking more carefully at the
> Guardian blog piece, that the sample consisted of only 130 some
> odd-people, and self-selecting at that. Not valid.
>
> That said, I'm wasting time here, making a reading list for Thanksgiving
> weekend. Gonna go spend some book money today! Haven't read Neal
> Stephenson... Looks good.
>
> Laura
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Friam-bounces at redfish.com [mailto:Friam-bounces at redfish.com] On
> Behalf Of Owen Densmore
> Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 4:32 PM
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Top geek novels
>
> 10
>
> And I completely agree about the bias and odd left-outs.
>
> -- Owen
>
> Owen Densmore
> http://backspaces.net - http://redfish.com - http://friam.org
>
>
> On Nov 22, 2005, at 3:57 PM, McNamara, Laura A wrote:
>
> > I've read 5 or 6 of them....
> >
> > At the risk of sounding like one of those whiny feminists that Rush
> > Limbaugh routinely bashes, I note that these are all male authors, so
> > that might explain why this particular female geek isn't as familiar
> > with these books. But there are some great geek novels written by
> > women!
> > I'm a huge Ursula LeGuin fan, for example. I'm surprised she's not on
> > that list. The Dispossessed is one of the best books I've ever read.
> > So is The Left Hand of Darkness. Unforgettable.
> >
> > Laura
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Friam-bounces at redfish.com [mailto:Friam-bounces at redfish.com] On
> > Behalf Of Russell Standish
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 3:46 PM
> > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Top geek novels
> >
> > For me, 7 out of the 20. The interesting thing is that 5 of these were
>
> > in the top 8, and another 2 of the top 8 are novels I definitely want
> > to read when I get a round tuit (only got square ones here :). So you
> > get good agreement with me!
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 03:22:16PM -0700, J T Johnson wrote:
> >> Who amongst us has not read at least one of these? Who's read them
> > all?
> >>
> >>> From Ex Libris: an E-Zine for Librarians and Other Information
> > Junkies.
> >> http://marylaine.com/exlibris/
> >> Copyright, Marylaine Block, 1999-2005.
> >>
> >>
> >> "Top 20 Geek Novels
> >> http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/archives/2005/11/09/
> >> top_20_geek
> >> _novels_the_results.html
> >>
> >> Here's an idea for a display, a program, and a contest at your
> >> library
> >
> >> (because not everybody's going to agree with this list). Whoever's
> >> read the most of these titles gets to run the program."
> >>
> >> -tj
> >>
> >> --
> >> ==============================================
> >> J. T. Johnson
> >> Institute for Analytic Journalism
> >> www.analyticjournalism.com <http://www.analyticjournalism.com>
> >> 505.577.6482 (c) 505.473.9646(h)
> >> http://www.jtjohnson.com tom at jtjohnson.com
> >>
> >> "He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense."
> >> -John McCarthy, Stanford University mathematician
> >> ==============================================
> >
> >> ============================================================
> >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at
> >> Mission Cafe Wed Lecture schedule, archives, unsubscribe, maps, etc.
> >> at http://www.friam.org
> >
> > --
> > *PS: A number of people ask me about the attachment to my email, which
>
> > is of type "application/pgp-signature". Don't worry, it is not a
> > virus.
> > It is an electronic signature, that may be used to verify this email
> > came from me if you have PGP or GPG installed. Otherwise, you may
> > safely ignore this attachment.
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > --
> > ----
> > A/Prof Russell Standish Phone 8308 3119 (mobile)
> > Mathematics 0425 253119 (")
> > UNSW SYDNEY 2052 R.Standish at unsw.edu.au
> >
> > Australia
> > http://parallel.hpc.unsw.edu.au/rks
> > International prefix +612, Interstate prefix 02
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > --
> > ----
> >
> > ============================================================
> > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at
> > Mission Cafe Wed Lecture schedule, archives, unsubscribe, maps, etc.
> > at http://www.friam.org
> >
> >
> >
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> > Mission Cafe Wed Lecture schedule, archives, unsubscribe, maps, etc.
> > at http:// www.friam.org
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>
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