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Resources
Non-Fiction
Books
Hackerspaces and culture
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy
Wikipedia - history of hacker movement and hackerspaces
Unlocking the Clubhouse - Women in Computing by Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher
MIT Press history of feminism and sexism in IT
c-booc - 20 years of c-base in a book by Mirko 'macro' Fichtner and others
Kickstarter
Hackerspaces: The Beginning Hackerspaces Flux - the story of German and international hackerspaces since 2008
Hacker Citizen by Geoffrey Dorne
Kickstarter - an illustrated book with projects for urban activists and socially minded hackers
Writing
Into the Woods: A Five Act Journey Into Story by John Yorke
Overlook Press
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Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting by Robert McKee
Amazon
Dialogue: The Art of Verbal Action for Page, Stage, and Screen by Robert McKee
Amazon
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
Wikipedia
Comics
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud
Wikipedia - a comprehensive guide to what a comic is and what patterns are known specific to this medium
Reinventing Comics by Scott McCloud
Wikipedia - slightly dated sequel, describing what is to be in the comic world
Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga, and Graphic Novels by Scott McCloud
Wikipedia - another book, going into more details of comics' inner workings
Comics and Sequential Art by Will Eisner
Wikipedia
Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative by Will Eisner
Wikipedia
Panel One: Comic Book Scripts by Top Writers Goodreads
Alan Moore's Writing for Comics Volume 1 Wikipedia
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The DC Comics Guide to Writing Comics by Dennis O'Neil
Goodreads
Words for Pictures: The Art and Business of Writing Comics and Graphic Novels by Brian Michael Bendis
Goodreads
The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing Comics by Comfort Love and Adam Withers
Goodreads
Scientific articles
Hackerspaces
The Impostor Phenomenon by Jaruwan Sakulku and James Alexander
PDF - a good article on the Impostor Syndrome, widespread among people entering the Hackerspace, especially women
Writing
Docufiction in the Digital Age by Tay Huizhen
PDF Wikipedia on Docufiction - fictionalized documents, one of the genres the comic is aspiring to
Blogposts, Blogs and Webpages
Hackerspaces
Programming is Forgetting: Toward a New Hacker Ethic by Allison Parrish
OpenTranscripts
The Tyranny of Structurelessness by Jo Freeman aka Joreen
Official webpage Wikipedia - a good analysis of problems shared by many groups, including the second wave feminists, anarchists and hackerspaces - how informal groups form oblique power structures
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EEVBlog Official Site is a hardware specialist blog dealing in electronics. Lots of valuable materials on Open Hardware.
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Shit Noisebridge Says Tumblr - an extract from Noisebridge hackerspace mailing list and
IRC dramas
Running a Hackerspace Tumblr - excellent GIF commentaries to a life in hackerspace
GynePunk, the cyborg witches of DIY gynecology -
Makery - a story on DIY gynecology tools
Why Collecting Data In Conflict Zones Is Invaluable—And Nearly Impossible -
FastCompany - the role of hackers and hackerspaces in conflict zones
Chaos Computer Club Bibliography Webpage
Writing
Talks
The Hackerspace Movement: Mitch Altman at TEDxBrussels (20min)
YouTube - a good introduction to the hackerspace movement by one of its most important figures
Hackerspace catalogues
hackerspaces.org -
Official Wiki - a wiki cataloging all English-speaking hackerspaces in the world
Biohacking Safari -
Official Webpage - photojournal and database of biolabs all around the world
Ananse Group -
Official Webpage - a project aiming to catalog all kinds of hacker-, maker- and innovative spaces
Hackaday.io Official Webpage is a huge repository of open hardware projects, mostly electronics
Hackaday.com -
Official Webpage is a curated blog featuring projects from its sister-database
Instructables Offical Webpage is a similar repository, this time rather for makers than hackers, but contains a lot of advanced designs nonetheless
Galleries
Noisebridge by Daily Laurel
Official webpage - a great gallery capturing the mood / atmosphere of the Noisebridge at night. All photos copyrighted, author hostile to CC requests.
Mitch Altman's Flickr Flickr - a great, rich gallery of Mitch, founder of many hackerspaces all around the world. All Creative Commons.
MeTaMiND EvoLuTioN MeTaVoLuTioN's Flickr Flickr other gallery of photos from hackerspaces, workshops and conferences, mainly from Germany. Creative Commons.
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Movies
The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz IMDb YouTube - a documentary of Aaron Swartz
Wikipedia, inventor of RSS, Markdown, co-founder of Reddit and Creative Commons
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Fiction
A list of all hacker community related projects, not everything geeky and nerdy. While Ghost in the Shell or Deus Ex may be great works themselves, they don't feature communities, so please dont list them.
Movies
HackerFlicks on Hackerspaces.org offers a good choice of movies inspiring the hacker culture
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Dennou Coil Wikipedia is a sci-fi story of a detective agency formed by children to investigate Augmented / Virtual Reality problems. Quite a strong emphasis on community.
Books
Makers by Cory Doctorow
Wikipedia - a book focused on makers / inventors and shantytown community build around them. Sadly, nothing resembling a dynamic hackerspace community
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Comics
Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis
Wikipedia - not really about hackers, but a postcyberpunk journalist/activist uncovering dirty truths behind elections. Lots of tech-goodies.
Hacktivist by Alyssa Milano
Goodreads would be absolutely what Glider Ink is striving for if it had more community work and less white guy getting the girl. The story of hackers helping human rights activists / freeing the elections in Tunisia is sadly only a minor theme.
Webcomics
Dresden Codak by Aaron Diaz
Webcomic a cult webcomic dealing with hacker mindset and a lot of tropes from hacker culture. High fantasy / sci-fi.
Strong Female Protagonist by Brennan Lee Mulligan and Molly Ostertag
Webcomic - a comic about super hero dealing with regular life after self-imposed “retirement”, with strong social justice themes
Questionable Content Webcomic TVTropes - one of the most running and best slice-of-life comics on the Internet, good inspiration for a rich cast
Stay Still Stay Silent Webcomic TVTropes - a beautiful and very upbeat webcomic set in a post-apocalyptic Scandinavia. Rich colors, well-written cast.
Mare Internum Webcomic TVTropes - quasi-hard science fiction story set on Mars. Few main characters, great atmosphere
Weregeek Webcomic TVTropes - a strip based comic with an interesting take on a community of geeks and RPG playes
Games
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Ghost in the ShellCode - not really a game, but a CTF exercise, worth noting for its style and task playfulness
DONT YOU DARE ADD ANY CYBERPUNK GAME. ITS ABOUT REAL HACKERSPACES, NOT ADAM JENSEN