“Our world hangs like a magnificent jewel in the vastness of space… In the perspective of infinity, our differences are infinitesimal.” —Fred Rogers
Lots of people have been reading Geek Wisdom, and saying all sorts of nice things. It’s particularly satisfying to hear readers appreciating some of the specific aspects that were most important to me and to my collaborators in crafting the book. Sarah Farrukh’s review does just that, and it left me with a definite case [...]
Well, here we are: release day!
Geek Wisdom: The Sacred Teachings of Nerd Culture takes some two hundred of the most beloved and/or interesting modern quotations that we weirdos like to pepper our conversation with — “With great power comes great responsibility”; “I have been, and always shall be, your friend”; “Ray, when someone asks [...]
Ann VanderMeer and I were honored to receive Weird Tales’s historic first-ever Hugo Award at the 2009 World Science Fiction Convention.
Steampunk takes something stereotypically feminine that most boys hate — Victorian lace and frills and tea and crumpets — and says, “Hey, how about some robots with that?”
Stephen H. Segal is a Hugo Award-winning editor, designer, and writer. His book GEEK WISDOM: The Sacred Teachings of Nerd Culture was published by Quirk Books in 2011. Since March 2012, he has served as editor in chief of the Philadelphia Weekly. Previously, as editorial & creative director of Weird Tales, he led the 21st-century revamp of that pioneering magazine of fantastic literature.