#geekreads
National Science Week will be on 14 to 22 August. In honour of that August reading for #readit2011 is geekreads.
When you think of geekreads think science both fact and fiction, books, books, blogs, tweets and magazines. Great places to start with online reading for these areas are New Scientist, Scientific American and Boing boing.
Technology is also a great topic for #geekreads.
Reading about games is included in #geekreads. You might want to explore writing by people such as Tom Chatfield, Scott Nicholson and Wil Wheaton. Don’t forget that playing some games involves lots of reading and so would be a fun way of exploring this topic (try Nordic LARP, role playing games, and massively multiple online games).
Include any reading which strikes you as a geeky read.
If you explore at the fiction end of the spectrum be inspired by Tor.com, SF signal or Hugo Award nominees for this year (and past winners and nominees) and by the amazing ideas at the British Library, Out of this world exhibition (and blog). Don’t forget steampunk too. You may even want to explore the whole Trove of possibilities.
So come join us and tweet about what you are reading this August using the twitter hashtag #geekreads. You can also use this tag on other social media sites such as flickr or when you post about your reading on your blog.
You might also want to add tags for each month’s reading to Trove, Library Thing, and your library catalogue (if that is possible) – so that other people can see what you are reading.
We hope you will join us in our geeky reading, and share your own reading during #geekreads.
There will be a twitter discussion 8.00pm (AEST) 30 August to discuss #geekreads. See you online then.
Read It 2011 