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Geek Wisdom: The Sacred Teachings of Nerd Culture

Geek Wisdom: The Sacred Teachings of Nerd Culture

by StephenH.Segal (Author)

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Synopsis

We live in the era of the geek. Computer nerds are our titans of industry; comic-book heroes are our Hollywood idols; the Internet is our night on the town. Clearly, the geeks know something that other folks don't - something we'd all do well to learn from. So here it is: "Geek Wisdom", painstakingly gathered and interpreted by a diverse team of hardcore nerds who've spent years poring over the most beloved texts of the modern-day imagination. Beginning with close to 200 of the most powerful and oft-cited quotes from movies (Do, or do not - there is no try), television (The truth is out there), comics (With great power comes great responsibility), science, the Internet, and more, "Geek Wisdom" offers illuminating insights into the eternal truths to be found therein. 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.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 224
 Publisher: Quirk Books
Published: 05 Sep 2011
ISBN 10: 1594745277
ISBN 13: 9781594745270
Book Overview: THE GEEKS HAVE INHERITED THE EARTH.

Media Reviews
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

Author Bio
Stephen H. Segal (editor) is the Hugo Award-winning senior contributing editor to Weird Tales, the world's oldest fantasy/sci-fi/horror magazine, and a staff editor at Quirk Books. His portfolio includes work for Tor Books, Viz Media, WQED Pittsburgh, and Carnegie Mellon. A native of Atlantic City, he lives in Philadelphia. Zaki Hasan (cowriter) is a cultural critic and contributor to the Huffington Post. A Chicago native, he teaches communications and media studies at San Jose State University. N.K. Jemisin (cowriter) is the Hugo and Nebula Award-nominated author of the fantasy novel The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms. A counselling psychologist by day as well as a political blogger, she lives in Brooklyn. Eric San Juan (cowriter) is the coauthor of A Year of Hitchcock and author of Quirk's forthcoming Stuff Every Husband Should Know. He also edits a chain of seven weekly newspapers around his Jersey Shore hometown. Genevieve Valentine(cowriter) is a geek-culture columnist at Tor.com. Her steampunk-circus novel Mechanique is forthcoming in 2011, and she was featured in 2010's The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy. She lives in New York City.