Geektastic Stories from the Nerd Herd

Cecil Castellucci, Holly Black — 2009

Acclaimed authors Holly Black (Ironside) and Cecil Castellucci (Boy Proof) have united in geekdom to edit short stories from some of the best selling and most promising geeks in young adult literature: M.T. Anderson, Libba Bray, Cassandra Clare, John Green, Tracy Lynn, Cynthia and Greg Leitich Smith, David Levithan, Kelly Link, Barry Lyga, Wendy Mass, Garth Nix, Scott Westerfield, Lisa Yee, and Sara Zarr. With illustrated interstitials from comic book artists Hope Larson and Bryan Lee O'Malley, Geektastic covers all things geeky, from Klingons and Jedi Knights to fan fiction, theater geeks, and cosplayers. Whether you're a former, current, or future geek, or if you just want to get in touch with your inner geek, Geektastic will help you get your geek on!

Reviews

Sarah Sammis@pussreboots

Apr 4, 2024

Way too much emphasis on Cos-Play. DNF. http://www.pussreboots.pair.com/blog/...

A Freckled Bookwyrm@afreckledbookwyrm

Mar 25, 2024

A solid 4 star. With collections of stories like this, it hard to 100% like every story, BUT there are some realllly good one. I got this book because Holly Black is one of my favorite authors! There were only about 2 stories I was not crazy about but the rest were great and real page turners!

Annika Arguemore@arguemore

Jan 14, 2024

I only didn't like 2 stories out of everything in here. so, I guess it's not that bad. I detested the one with the ceaseless mentions of 'Paul Zell' in it which is the one written by Kelly Link and I also personally disliked the the very last one. meanwhile, I loved the second to the last story. it was about a boy and a girl (Tabitha Bell) and they're competition on who'd get to be the astronaut. how should I describe this book? geeky. this book was cute in a geeky way. it is, indeed, geektastic!

Nicole Dykeman@holobookthief

Aug 25, 2022

I wasn't sure if I would like this or not, but I really did. This is a great collection of stories about geeks, and half the time I was smiling like an idiot like "Oh my god, the author understand!" SEE PEOPLE? I'm not the only geek in the world!

Erin @pagesofmilkandhoney

Aug 30, 2021

Strangely enough, despite self-describing myself as a geek after I realised I was never going to be "popular" I was not an overall fan of this collection of stories. Some were okay, but others left me confused. Maybe I need my geek card revoked. Oh well.