Geek Wisdom: The Sacred Teachings of Nerd Culture

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"THE GEEKS HAVE INHERITED THE EARTH. "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."

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.

"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