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One of the upsides to the explosion of science and geek culture over the last few years is an absolute tidal wave of great books that appeal to geeky interests of all stripes. Read on as we highlight great books for every geek on your list.

过去几年中，科学和极客文化的爆炸式增长的一大优势是，吸引了各行各业的极客兴趣的伟大书籍掀起了波澜。 继续阅读，我们会为您清单上的每个怪胎突出精选书籍。

This is the fourth of the How-To Geek 2013 Holiday Gift Guides; to keep up with the rest of the guides throughout December, be sure to keep an eye on the article tag GiftGuide2013.

这是《 2013年How-To Geek》节日礼物指南中的第四篇； 为了与整个12月的其他指南保持同步，请务必注意文章标签GiftGuide2013。

Whether you’re shopping for a geek that loves the hard sciences, Sci-Fi dystopias, visionary tracts focused on how the future should look, or just wants to geek out a good old fashioned game guide or encyclopedia, there’s no shortage of good reading material. Stroll through the virtual bookstore aisles with us as we highlight the best offerings across the board as well as alternative options if you know your recipient already has our top pick.

无论您是要购买热爱硬科学，科幻反乌托邦的极客，还是着眼于未来前景的有远见的领域，或者只是想了解一个好的老式游戏指南或百科全书，都不会缺乏良好的阅读能力材料。 与我们一起漫步在虚拟书店的过道中，我们将重点介绍最好的产品以及其他选择，如果您知道接收者已经是我们的首选。

电子游戏绝杀：塞尔达传说：海露莉丝·史托里亚 (Video Game Lore: The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia)

If you have a video game franchise fan on your list, it’s tough to go wrong indulging their fandom with a video game lore book. Among the most recent lore books published is The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia ($18), an impressive 280 page hardcover tome that spans the entire history of the Legend of Zelda game series.

如果您的名单上有电子游戏特许经营者，那么用电子游戏绝版书来迷恋他们的狂热就很难错了。 在最新出版的绝版书籍中，《塞尔达传说：海鲁尔·史托里亚》 (18美元)是一部令人印象深刻的280页精装书，涵盖了《塞尔达传说》游戏系列的整个历史。

Inside you’ll find artwork, interviews, timelines, comics, and an astounding amount of Zelda trivia. Even for lifelong fans of the franchise there’s something new to learn and explore. It’s a beautiful addition to any fan’s bookshelf.

在里面，您可以找到艺术品，采访，时间表，漫画以及数量惊人的《塞尔达传说》琐事。 即使对于专营权的终身粉丝，也有一些新的东西需要学习和探索。 这是任何粉丝的书架上的漂亮装饰。

If you know they already snatched the Historia up when it came out earlier this year, you can always surprise them with the beautiful player’s guide for the newest Zelda game, A Link Between Worlds ($24).

如果您知道他们在今年早些时候问世时就已经抢购了Historia ，那么您总是可以通过最新的《塞尔达传说》游戏《美丽的世界》 (24美元)的精美玩家指南让他们感到惊讶。

Don’t have a Zelda fan on your list? Don’t worry, you can find other lore/player guides for a wide variety of popular games and game franchises like: The Elderscrolls V: Skyrim Player Guide ($33), Diablo III: Book of Cain ($26), and MM25: Mega Man the Official Complete Works ($40). If it’s a popular game, you can bet there’s a guide, lore, or artwork book out there somewhere to go with it.

您的名单上没有Zelda粉丝吗？ 别担心，您可以找到其他有关各种流行游戏和游戏特许经营的绝杀/玩家指南，例如： The Elderscrolls V：Skyrim Player Guide ($ 33)， Diablo III：该隐书 ($ 26)和MM25：Mega制作正式全集 (40美元)。 如果这是一款受欢迎的游戏，那么您可以打赌那里有指南，知识或美术书籍可以随身携带。

反乌托邦期货：现成的第一人 (Dystopian Futures: Ready Player One)

Although dystopian brings to mind a miserable and foreboding future, our top pick for dystopian Sci-Fi is actually a really light and enjoyable read. In Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One ($10), we find a world where the physical reality of most of Earth’s citizens is wretched, but they escape into a virtual world where anything is possible.

尽管反乌托邦让我想到了一个悲惨而艰巨的未来，但我们选择的反乌托邦科幻小说实际上是一本轻松愉快的书。 在欧内斯特·克莱恩(Ernest Cline)的《 就绪玩家一号》 ( Ready Player One， 10美元)中，我们发现了一个世界，其中大多数地球公民的物质现实令人沮丧，但他们逃到了一个虚拟世界，一切皆有可能。

The story follows the adventures of Wade Watts, a high school student hell bent on solving the elaborate mystery left behind by the creator of the virtual world he and everyone he knows spends their waking hours inside. The best part of the book, by far, is that the puzzles left by the reclusive father of the virtual world all hinge on the seeker possessing and incredible knowledge of 1980s video game and geek culture.

故事讲述了韦德·瓦茨(Wade Watts)的冒险经历，韦​​德·瓦茨(Wade Watts)是一名高中生，他下地狱是要解决虚拟世界的创造者所留下的精心设计的神秘事物，他和他认识的每个人都在里面度过了清醒的时光。 到目前为止，这本书最好的部分是，隐居的虚拟世界之父留下的难题全都取决于对1980年代电子游戏和怪胎文化拥有且难以置信的知识的寻求者。

Looking for other dystopian fiction for the sci-fi buffs on your list? Similar in many regards to Ready Player One, Cory Doctorow’s For the Win ($8) focuses on video game culture and life in a virtual world. This year’s The Circle ($15) by Dave Eggers is a thriller centered on a world where an all-powerful social media company pushes the boundaries of privacy, democracy, and even memory.

寻找清单中其他科幻迷的反乌托邦小说吗？ 在许多方面与Ready Player One相似，Cory Doctorow的《 The For the Win》 (8美元)专注于视频游戏的文化和虚拟世界中的生活。 由戴夫·埃格斯(Dave Eggers)制作的今年的《圈子》 ( The Circle) (售价15美元)是一部惊悚片，围绕着这个世界，一个功能强大的社交媒体公司推动了隐私，民主甚至记忆的界限。

电子游戏是严肃的生意：现实被打破 (Video Games Are Serious Business: Reality is Broken)

While our two previous categories focused on actual video game lore and how video game/internet culture plays out in Sci-Fi, not everyone on your list might be a video game franchise fan or a Sci-Fi buff. For those that prefer reading about internet and video game culture without the fandom or fantasy elements, there is a whole genre of books focused on video games in a totally different way.

虽然我们前面的两个类别侧重于实际的视频游戏知识以及视频游戏/互联网文化在科幻中的表现，但并不是您列表中的每个人都可能是视频游戏特许经营者或科幻爱好者。 对于那些喜欢阅读而没有狂热或幻想元素的互联网和视频游戏文化的人来说，有一大堆书籍以完全不同的方式专注于视频游戏。

One of our favorite about-gaming books is Jane McGonigal’s Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change The World ($13). McGonigal is an accomplished game designer who has spent years building games designed to enhance performance, serve as virtual training spaces, and otherwise improve lives and solve real problems. Reality is Broken is her take on how we can take the core components of good video game design and apply them to reality, effectively gamifying life so that we have more fun and accomplish more in the process.

我们最喜欢的关于游戏的书籍之一是Jane McGonigal的《 现实破碎：游戏为什么能让我们变得更好以及它们如何改变世界》 (13美元)。 McGonigal是一位经验丰富的游戏设计师，他花费了数年时间开发旨在提高性能，充当虚拟培训空间以及改善生活和解决实际问题的游戏。 《残破的现实》是她对如何将好的视频游戏设计的核心组件应用到现实中，有效地将生活进行游戏化，使我们在过程中获得更多乐趣和完成更多工作的看法。

For an equally as enjoyable read that’s more focused on video game culture and the meaning of video games, Tom Bissell’s Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter ($13) is a tour of the heart of the video game and why it matters. In a similar vein, journalist Harold Goldberg takes us on a half-century tour of the history of video games with All Your Base Are Belong to Us: How Fifty Years of Video Games Conquered Pop Culture ($12), and historian Tristan Donovan explored every nook and niche in his 500 page tome Replay: The History of Video Games ($19).

对于同样有趣的阅读，它更侧重于视频游戏文化和视频游戏的含义，​​Tom Bissell的《 Extra Lives：为什么视频游戏很重要》 (13美元)是对视频游戏核心及其重要性的游览。 同样，记者哈罗德·戈德堡(Harold Goldberg)带领我们进行了半个世纪的电子游戏历史之旅，“ 您的所有基地都属于我们：电子游戏五十年如何征服了流行文化” (12美元)，历史学家特里斯坦·多诺万(Tristan Donovan)进行了探索。 Nook和利基在他的500页巨著重播：视频游戏的历史 (19美元)中。

极客文化与哲学：未来派与哲学 (Geek Culture and Philosophy: Futurama and Philosophy)

Over the last few years there have been an enormous number of books published by the Open Court publishing house in their Popular Culture and Philosophy series and Blackwell’s Philosophy and Pop Culture series. What the series aim to achieve, and in most cases do effectively, is to combine a pop-culture icon or institution with serious philosophical inquiries.

在过去的几年中，Open Court出版社出版了许多书籍，分别是《大众文化与哲学》系列和布莱克韦尔的《哲学与流行文化》系列。 该系列的目的是要在大多数情况下有效地实现这一目标，就是将流行文化的偶像或机构与认真的哲学研究相结合。

While at first the premise might seem contrived, in reality it works surprisingly well. After all, television shows, movies, video games, are typically rife with moral and ethical choices made by the characters: existential struggles between good and evil, the individual’s struggle for identity against the backdrop of greater culture, and other problems that have kept philosophers up for millennia.

虽然一开始的前提似乎是人为的，但实际上它的效果令人惊讶。 毕竟，电视节目，电影，视频游戏通常充斥着角色做出的道德和伦理选择：善与恶之间的生存斗争，在更大文化背景下个人的身份斗争以及哲学家们面临的其他问题长达数千年。

Typically around $15-20, you can find the pop-culture philosophy books for just about anybody on your shopping list. There are volumes for Futurama, Breaking Bad, Superman, The Legend of Zelda, and Doctor Who, among many, many, others. Search Amazon for whatever pop culture franchise you’re looking for and the term philosophy, and you’re bound to find what you want; Big Bang Theory and Philosophy, anyone?

通常在15到20美元左右，您可以在购物清单上找到几乎所有人都可以读到的流行文化哲学书籍。 还有的卷飞出个未来 ， 绝命毒师 ， 超人 ， 塞尔达传说 ，和医生是谁 ，当中很多很多 ，等等。 在亚马逊上搜索所需的流行文化特许经营和哲学一词，您一定会找到想要的； 大爆炸理论与哲学 ，有人吗？

我们在做科学！ 泡泡和爆炸牙膏 (We’re Doing Science! Fire Bubbles and Exploding Toothpaste)

If all our suggestions are just too darn cerebral and you really just want to get down to blowing things up, don’t you worry: you’re not leaving empty handed.

如果我们所有的建议都太聪明了，而您真的只是想把事情弄糟，那就不用担心：您不会无所事事。

There’s an entire new generation of books devoted to science experiments of all shapes and sizes. Steve Spangler, known for doing hands-on science segments for morning news shows across the United States, has a bunch of great books including Naked Eggs and Flying Potatoes: Unforgettable Experiments That Make Science Fun ($11) and Fire Bubbles and Exploding Toothpaste: More Unforgettable Experiments that Make Science Fun ($13)

有一本专门介绍各种形状和大小的科学实验的新一代书籍。 史蒂夫·斯潘格(Steve Spangler)以在全美的早间新闻节目中亲身实践科学领域而著称，他有一堆很棒的书，包括《 裸蛋》和《土豆飞扬：令人难忘的使科学变得有趣的实验》 (11美元)以及《泡沫与爆炸性牙膏》：更多令人难忘的让科学有趣的实验 ($ 13)

Sean Connolly’s The Book of Totally Irresponsible Science: 64 Daring Experiments for Young Scientists ($10) is filled with kid-friendly experiments that ooze, pop, and explode. Older geeks (or well supervised tykes) will enjoy Backyard Ballistics: Build Potato Cannons, Paper Match Rockets, Cincinnati Fire Kites, Tennis Ball Mortars, and More Dynamite Devices ($15) filled with experiments that are as much fun as you can have without (probably) breaking any Federal laws. From the same author, William Gurstelle, and with and even bigger affinity for fire, you could also explore (hose in hand) The Practical Pyromaniac: Build Fire Tornadoes, One-Candlepower Engines, Great Balls of Fire, and More Incendiary Devices ($13).

肖恩·康诺利(Sean Connolly) 的《完全不负责任的科学之书：64位年轻科学家的大胆实验》 (10美元)中充满了孩子友善的实验，这些实验会渗出，弹出和爆炸。 年长的怪胎(或受过良好监督的轮胎)将喜欢后院弹道技术：建造土豆大炮，纸火柴火箭，辛辛那提火风筝，网球砂浆和更多炸药设备 (15美元)，里面装满的实验充满了乐趣，没有(可能)违反了任何联邦法律。 从同一位作者威廉·古斯特(William Gurstelle)手中，并且甚至对火有更深厚的亲和力，您还可以探索(手中的软管) 实用的烈火：建造龙卷风，单烛引擎，大火球以及更多燃烧装置 ($ 13 )。

Just like you’ll find no shortage of geeky philosophy books, you’ll definitely find no shortage of geeky science experiment books focused on everything from cooking to pyrotechnics.

就像您会发现不乏令人讨厌的哲学书籍一样，您也绝对会发现不乏有关从烹饪到烟火技术的一切的令人讨厌的科学实验书籍。

Just like it killed us to narrow the list of video games for our video game gift guide, it was agonizing to pick through all the awesome geeky books out there to pick just a shelf full (or two) to share. Have a geeky book we didn’t cover but that you’d love to share? Join in the discussion below!

就像它扼杀了我们缩小视频游戏礼品指南中的视频游戏列表一样，挑剔所有令人敬畏的令人讨厌的书籍，只挑选一个完整的书架(或两本书)进行共享，真是令人气愤。 有一本我们没有讲的怪异书，但您想分享？ 加入下面的讨论！

翻译自: https://www.howtogeek.com/177675/how-to-geeks-holiday-gift-guide-2013-books-for-boys-girls-geeks-and-sentient-robots/

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