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** Martin also based the ''[[Wild Cards]]'' series on the ''Superworld'' tabletop RPG campaign that he and fellow local writers were involved in at the time.
* Every Author in the Literary Anthology ''Geektastic!''is a self-proclaimed geek in one way or another.
* [[Terry Pratchett]], author of the ''[[Discworld]]'' novels is known to be [http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=143656 a fan of games] such as ''[[Half-Life]] 2'' and fan-missions of ''[[Thief]]'' and has had a part in developing the early game versions of his books. Also his daughter Rhianna Pratchett is a writer for video games such as the ''[[Overlord]]'' series, ''[[Heavenly Sword]]'' and ''[[
** [[Fan Nickname|Pterry]] is a very serious fan of classic genre SF, and was a fixture in British SF fandom for years before he became a famous writer.
** Also supposed to be a [[They Might Be Giants]] fan.
*** Confirmed by the [http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/index.html Annotated Pratchett File]. In fact, Foul Ole Ron's catchphrase "millennium hand and shrimp" came about as the result of running TMBG lyrics and a Chinese restaurant menu through a Markov-chain text generator.
** About Pratchett as a gamer, there's the quote about the (terracotta) Red Army in ''Interesting Times'':
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** There is also a suspicion, noted by fans versed in both ''ouevres'', that Terry has more than a passing knowledge of the works of that great Gothic/heavy rock band, the [[Blue
*** And of course, there's the Yetis, which in his world can meditate, live out the next few minutes, die, and then time-jump back into their meditative self with the knowledge of what is going to kill them. In other words, quicksave and quickload.
** By the way, he also has a hobby of growing carnivorous plants.
** And he says he used to play ''[[Dungeons
*** The Luggage is based on a magic item he invented while DM'ing- a chest on legs with infinite storage space that does what you tell it. ''Exactly'' what you tell it. Wonderful, until you forget to tell it to stop at the cliff edge...
*** Well, there's a few stories, all originating from Pratchett himself, about the origin of The Luggage. Another version is that he was inspired by rolling suitcases at an airport that you tugged with a leash. Pterry has said even ''he'' doesn't really remember which version is true.
* [[Neil Gaiman]] writes [[Fanfic]]. ''[[Cthulhu Mythos]]'' mostly, he wrote a crossover fic featuring ''[[Jeeves and Wooster (
** ''[http://www.neilgaiman.com/mediafiles/exclusive/shortstories/emerald.pdf A Study in Emerald]'' ([[Sherlock Holmes]]/[[Cthulhu Mythos]] crossover). He also wrote a [[Dark Fic]] about Narnia {{spoiler|that shipped Jadis/Aslan}}.
*** Speaking of [[Sherlock Holmes]], Gaiman is apparently also a fan of ''[[Sherlock]]'', if this [http://thepaperplaneofexistence.tumblr.com/post/16143555329/neil-gaiman-one-of-us Twitter post] is anything to go by.
** Not to mention at least three [[American Gods
** According to a recent blog post, he is apparently a fan of ''[[
** He has also mentioned being a fan of ''[[
** He's also a ''[[Doctor Who]]'' fan, as is pretty obvious in his episode "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S32
** He also wrote the only episode of ''[[Babylon 5]]'' in Seasons 3, 4, or 5 on which J. Michael Straczynski received no writing credit ("Day of the Dead").
** British RPG magazine ''Imagine'' was his first publisher with two of his early short stories, ''Featherquest'' in 1984 (#14) and ''How to Sell the Ponti Bridge'' in 1985 (#24).
* Mystery novelist and conservative commentator Andrew Klavan has made it clear that he enjoys videogames, and occasionally [https://web.archive.org/web/20130722053734/http://www.andrewklavan.com/2010/07/28/super-mario-galaxy-2/ reviews them] [https://web.archive.org/web/20150101153842/http://www.andrewklavan.com/2010/07/08/god-of-war-3/ on his website]. He's also made a reference to ''[[
* [[Stephen King]] is pretty nerdy. He loves comic books, writes fanfiction (check out ''Nightmares and Dreamscapes'' -- it has a [[Sherlock Holmes]] story, one or two [[
** He is especially fond of ''[[Lost]]''.
** Any given Stephen King work name-checks [[
** On top of it all, he names [[
*** He was willing to risk ''[[Serious Business|death threats]]'' after saying that publicly.
* [[Lois McMaster Bujold]] started out writing ''[[Star Trek]]'' fanfic as a teenager. Later she published a fanzine. Until she became afraid of confusing her ideas with readers, she regularly read fanfics of her own work. She used to hook up a reel-to-reel tape recorder to record the episodes, audio-only (mother: "You girls are going to be so embarrassed when you grow up and remember how you acted over this program.")
* All right, we expect science fiction, fantasy, and horror authors to be geeks, but how about purveyors of "Proper Literature"? During an interview with Paul Gambaccini (see below), [[Umberto Eco]] expressed a wish to write ''[[Green Lantern]]''. Thus far, DC haven't taken him up on it.
* Another "Proper Literature" one: A.S. Byatt is a ''[[
** But she has expressed the opinion that adult [[Harry Potter]] fans should read a real book already. And went on to [http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/07/opinion/harry-potter-and-the-childish-adult.html?pagewanted=3&src=pm blatantly insult the intelligence] of adult fans:
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** Eight years on and it's approaching [[Never Live It Down]] status, unfortunately; it's still brought up in discussions about literary snobbery. Telling millions of adult readers that their lives must be confined to "the worlds of soaps, reality TV, and celebrity gossip" was not the best way to express her disapproval of the books.
* Scottish thriller writer Ian Rankin wrote an arc for ''[[
* Daniel Suarez gets so many of the technical details right in his novel ''[[Daemon]]'' that he's obviously an accomplished hacker in his own right. So much so that you have to wonder how much [[Conspiracy Theory|practical research]] he may have done on how to write a Daemon like the one in the book...
* If [[Douglas Adams]] was still alive with his wholly technologically obsessed self, he would be more than a match for [[Stephen Fry]] in the race of [[Fan Boy|fanboying]] over Apple products - according to Fry, he was the owner of the first ever Apple computer in the UK (though some say Fry bought the first one). And before that, he was a huge fan of ''[[Doctor Who]]'', having written affectionate parodies when he was younger before actually writing for the show, and if his books aren't referencing a band (particularly [[The Beatles]]), then you probably aren't reading Douglas Adams. Perhaps his nerdiness was just too much for the space-time continuum and he had to be removed.
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** She's also a founding member and [http://transformativeworks.org/about/people current chair] of the Organisation for Transformative Works, a fan-run organisation dedicated to ensuring that "all fannish works are recognized as legal and transformative and are accepted as a legitimate creative activity" and defending said works from legal challenges. One of its major projects is an open-source fanfic archive.
** She was also reportedly once the Director (head honcho) of Transformers 2005 MUSH, possibly the oldest still-running Transformers MUSH. She supposedly (at least) played Soundwave.
* [[Brandon Sanderson]] is a fan of, among other things, ''[[Magic:
* Any Black Library writer grew up on ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' and all its [[Warhammer
* [[
* No mention of [[John Green]]? Between him and his brother Hank, they founded a community known as ''Nerdfighters''. So not only does he take [[Proud to Be
* Steven Brust, creator of ''[[Dragaera]]'', wrote "[http://dreamcafe.com/firefly.html My Own Kind of Freedom]" a ''[[
* [[
* Sportswriter [[Bill Simmons]] is a massive nerd, and spent so much of his column crossing over sports and pop culture that ESPN spun off Grantland.com so that he and others could continue. He's written lengthy articles on ''[[
* The reclusive American [[Cosmic Horror Story|cosmic horror author]] [[Thomas Ligotti]] once co-wrote a ([[So Cool Its Awesome|very impressive]]) [[Script Fic]] for ''[[The X
* Andrzej Sapkowski, creator of ''[[The Witcher]]'' books is huge fan of [[King Arthur]] and everything related to it. Once he and another writer took over a panel at convention and turned it into a duel who can prove to have greater knowledge about ''[[Sienkiewicz Trilogy]]''. He also has a recommendation list of fantasy novels he thinks every true fan of the genre should give a try. Said list consiste a one hundred positions at this point and all series, even the long running ones like ''[[Discworld]]'', are listed as just one position. And that's just books he liked.
* Neil T Stacey, author of ''Trespasser's will be prostituted'', ''Delicious Pandas'' and ''[[
** Plays Magic the Gathering seriously to have placed in the top 30 at the national championships of his home country.
** Plays Dnd and has even DM'ed campaigns.
** Has a Masters degree in Chemical Engineer
** And the real kicker: claimed in one interview that he learnt how to write by reading [[TV Tropes]].
* [[Larry Niven]], multiple Hugo Award, Nebula Award, and [[
* [[Mercedes Lackey]] began as a fan writer and [[Filk Song|filker]], has snuck a crossover fanfic into her professional writing (a short story crossing her ''[[Heralds of Valdemar]]'' series with ''[[Scooby-Doo]]''), and not only plays ''[[City of Heroes]]'' but is part of the team running the resurrected ''COX'' server ''Homecoming''.
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