Geek Books

From browneyedgirl65: geek books

The Guardian's Top Twenty Geek Novels.

Bold what you've read and liked, strike what you've read and disliked, italicise what you want to read.

1. The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams
2. Nineteen Eighty-Four -- George Orwell
3. Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley
4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
5. Neuromancer -- William Gibson (is there a way to signify 'middlin'? I didn't dislike it.)
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 (I go back and forth in my opinion, I don't think it's his best work)
18. The Diamond Age -- Neal Stephenson
19. The Illuminatus! Trilogy -- Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson (Own it. Yet to read it.)
20. Trouble with Lichen - John Wyndham

But hey, if you ask me, there's a lot missing off this list. What the hell is a Geek Novel anyway?

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Ingredients:

1/2 cup light cream or evaporated milk
3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
4 ounces of unsweetened chocolate
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
1/3 cup molasses

In a large bowl, mix cream, brown sugar and salt together.
In a saucepan, melt the chocolate and butter together.
Remove from heat and add molasses.
Add the chocolate mixtures and cream mixtures together.
Pour mixture into a pan and let cool.