Ryan Britt has written for The New York Times, Electric Literature, The Awl, VICE Motherboard, Clarkesworld Magazine, and is a consulting editor for Story Magazine. He was the staff writer for the Hugo-Award winning web magazine Tor.com, where he remains a contributor. He lives in New York City.
“Ryan Britt is one of nerd culture's most brilliant and most
essential commentators...the Virgil you want to guide you through
the inferno of geekery.” —Lev Grossman, author of the bestselling
The Magicians Trilogy
"Ryan Britt is an uncontrolled experiment—a genre omnivore who has
spent his time on this earth flying to other galaxies, undersea
cities, freaky amusement parks, Middle Earth, Transylvania,
Sherlock Holmes’ London, and the Cretaceous. His essays are
reliably smart, surprising, provocative, and funny.” —Karen
Russell, Pulitzer-Prize-nominated author of Swamplandia!
"One of the most witty, fun, warm, and insightful essay collections
out there. If Luke Skywalker had a favorite book, it would be this
one." —Ophira Eisenberg, host of NPR's Ask Me Another and
author of Screw Everyone
"Luke Skywalker Can't Read is personally revealing, effortlessly
funny, carefully researched, and optimistic about the place of
sci-fi/fantasy in the greater world of popular entertainment."
—Cecil Baldwin, narrator of Welcome to Night Vale
“Whether he’s exploring paradoxes in Back to the Future, the
fundamental illiteracy of the average Stormtrooper, or being tied
up and held over a rooftop by a couple of dominatrices, Ryan Britt
is an amiable, perceptive, and highly entertaining observer of the
sci-fi scene. I gulped down these essays like Dracula downing a
pint of blood.” —Teddy Wayne, author of The Love Song of Jonny
Valentine
“Ryan Britt’s debut collection is a wisecracking, intimate and
intelligent voyage through universes both real and imagined. But to
a certain kind of reader –- the kind whose teenage weekends were
spent at sci-fi conventions and comic book stores— it is also
something much more. Luke Skywalker Can’t Read is a glorious geek
manifesto, illuminating the essential and often misunderstood
essence of geekdom: not the pursuit of esoterica-obsessed loners
but a vital and complex community, a far-away galaxy where fellow
misfits meet to swap the ray guns, talismanic rings, and
radioactive potions for their daily battles back on Planet Earth."
—Stefan Merrill Block, author of The Story of Forgetting and A
Storm at the Door
"Sci-fi and fantasy fans, meet your new best friend. Ryan Britt has
an encyclopedic knowledge of geek culture, from Aurebesh to Zardoz,
and this collection of essays feels like you're hanging out with
him at the world's nerdiest bar. Luke Skywalker Can't Read is
smart, insightful, and totally fun." —David M. Ewalt, author of Of
Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons & Dragons
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