kontextmaschine:

John Varley’s Steel Beach, David Brin’s Earth, honorable mention to Nancy Kress’ Beggars & Choosers

…I guess by “of all time” I mean “of the early-mid 90s when I was reading a lot of SF”

I guess that’s a key to “wtf happened to the geek identity”: as late as the 1990s, the core constituency was people who read novels