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Geek Parenting
By Stephen H. Segal & Valya Dudycz LupescuPublisher Description
Get parenting advice from geeky pop culture icons like The Addams Family’s Morticia and Black Panther’s T’Chaka in 97 entertaining mini-essays for parents who want to teach their kids to stay strong—and conquer the world.
It takes a starship to raise a child. Or a time machine. Or a tribe of elves. Fortunately, Geek Parenting offers all that and more, with thoughtful mini-essays that reveal profound child-rearing advice (and mistakes) from the most beloved tales of geek culture.
Nerds and norms alike can take counsel from some of the most iconic parent–child pairings found in pop culture: Whether you’re raising an Amazon princess, a Jedi Padawan, a brooding vampire, or a standard-issue human child, Geek Parenting helps you navigate the ion storms, alternate realities, and endless fetch quests that come with being a parent.
Includes parenting experts from across time and space, such as:
It takes a starship to raise a child. Or a time machine. Or a tribe of elves. Fortunately, Geek Parenting offers all that and more, with thoughtful mini-essays that reveal profound child-rearing advice (and mistakes) from the most beloved tales of geek culture.
Nerds and norms alike can take counsel from some of the most iconic parent–child pairings found in pop culture: Whether you’re raising an Amazon princess, a Jedi Padawan, a brooding vampire, or a standard-issue human child, Geek Parenting helps you navigate the ion storms, alternate realities, and endless fetch quests that come with being a parent.
Includes parenting experts from across time and space, such as:
- Luke and Darth Vader from Star Wars
- Peter Parker and Aunt May from Spider-Man
- Joffrey and Cersei from Game of Thrones
- Frodo and Bilbo from Lord of the Rings
- Thor, Loki, and Odin from Thor
- Spock, Sarek, and Amanda from Star Trek: The Original Series
- Claudia and Lestat from The Interview with the Vampire
- Bruce Wayne and Alfred from Batman
- Buffy and Giles from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Orpheus and Morpheus from The Sandman
- Paul Atreides and Lady Jessica from Dune
- Kal-El and Jor-El from Superman
- Diana and Hippolyta from Wonder Woman
- Alexander and Worf from Star Trek: The Next Generation
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“A fun concept. Lots of quick essays on parenting. Perfect to read in small bursts. There's some good advice in here and you'll likely end up with a list of shows to watch and books to read.”
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About Stephen H. Segal
Valya Dudycz Lupescu is raising three delightfully geeky children. Her debut novel, The Silence of Trees (Wolfsword Press), reached the Amazon Top 10 in historical fiction in 2011. She is founding editor of the literary journal Conclave: A Journal of Character and co-creator of the comic book Sticks and Bones.
Stephen H. Segal is the child of geeky parents, an award-winning editor, designer, and writer, and former editor in chief of Philadelphia Weekly. His revamp of Weird Tales magazine won a Hugo Award in 2009; his book Geek Wisdom: The Sacred Teachings of Nerd Culture was published by Quirk in 2011.
Stephen H. Segal is the child of geeky parents, an award-winning editor, designer, and writer, and former editor in chief of Philadelphia Weekly. His revamp of Weird Tales magazine won a Hugo Award in 2009; his book Geek Wisdom: The Sacred Teachings of Nerd Culture was published by Quirk in 2011.
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