Geektastic!

There's a new YA anthology on the shelves, titled Geektastic. With a title like that, it just has to be good. And, indeed, it is.

The roster of participants is like a who's who of young adult writers. You want John Green and David Levithan and Scott Westerfeld and Holly Black and Cecil Castelucci and Garth Nix and Sara Zarr and M.T. Anderson and a whole huge chunk of YA-y goodness crammed between two geeky covers? Sure you do. Who wouldn't? Well, now you've got it. The aforementioned folks plus a gaggle more, all together, all writing about truly insane levels of geekitude. Holly and Cecil gathered everyone together, rode herd on 'em, and made sure the whole thing was nice and pretty. (Well, as pretty as geeks get. Let's not be ridiculous here.)

I somehow managed to slip into this geek-fest, with a little story titled "The Truth About Dino Girl." For those of you who care about such things, this story takes place at South Brook High School. In the chronology of things, it's set shortly after the end of The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl, but it doesn't have those characters in it, so don't worry about the timeline. Just enjoy the very strange evolution of Katya, also known as Dino Girl.

You can find Geektastic in all the usual places. 

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Woo!
By: Fanboy107 on Thu July 16, 2009, 20:23:06

Another South Brook story to whet our appetites! And hey, if Garth Nix is in there too, that's a great bounus. I'll be sure to get this one.

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Superman V Batman
By: skate_ratcomics on Fri July 17, 2009, 01:09:53

I was just going through the "geektastic" archives and read Superman Vs Batman. Yeah, in Dark Knight he let him win, but I couldn't stand that book. What about Hush? Superman was holding back, but if poison Ivy commanded him to, he would of had to have killed Batman. Batman used his wits, and a handy kryptonite ring to win the battle. Superman even used his heat vision and all that. Sorry for writing something so unrelated.

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Re: Geektastic!
By: Barry on Fri July 17, 2009, 15:01:24

Re: Hush - exactly--Superman wasn't in his right mind. If he'd been sane he could have fried Batman from orbit.

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Re: Geektastic!
By: campbell on Sun September 06, 2009, 21:28:32

i've only read a few stories from this anthology, but i really enjoyed dino girl. all the dinosaur facts were fascinating [coming from a girl whose favorite movie at the age of 3 was jurassic park]. and i smiled when I saw Zik's name. i was hoping you would throw in an old character shout out!

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Re: Geektastic!
By: Barry on Sun September 06, 2009, 22:01:10

@campbell: Glad you liked the story!

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Geektastic is fantastic
By: TheGooglePlex on Thu April 29, 2010, 17:09:01

If you haven't already, you need to buy this book NOW! It's great. =)

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lurrrrve itttt.
By: kayleemarie on Mon June 27, 2011, 20:46:17

This is one of my favorite books. c: Dino Girl is a cute, adorable story filled with enough dino facts to make my heart cry out "rawwwwwwwr."