G.E.E.K – a short story mashing geek-speak with Sci-Fi

By , Published September 2, 2010

I can’t help but plug the following short story – called ‘G.E.E.K’ – by Mohammed Mustafa & his brother.It’s definitely a must-read for those familiar with Linux and/or tech in general, although a glossary is provided throughout for commands, words or acronyms you might be unfamiliar with.

The story combines has a unique written style, combining of all-out geekisms (“Kay walked out of /home/kay and into /home…”, IRC transcripts & more) with an interesting sci-fi tinged story that is more than capable of holding your interest.

“The idea behind ‘GEEK’ was to combine a fantasy adventure with the elements of computer software and hardware so that it would appeal to everyday computer geeks.” states the blurb on the back – and it certainly does that.
Better still the story dedication is to the OMG! UBUNTU! community! Aww :)
Grab a copy @ http://bit.ly/d5aOJA

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  • http://anxiousnut.wordprss.com Anxious Nut

    Thanks d0od for promoting our work! I hope you all enjoy this :)
    Mohammed A. Mustafa

    • http://anxiousnut.wordprss.com Anxious Nut

      And the direct link is the same as above but without the +

      http://bit.ly/d5aOJA

      ;)

  • Muhammad Negmualldean

    مافيش نسخة عربي لاخوانك :(

  • http://anxiousnut.wordprss.com Anxious Nut

    الصراحة أنا و أخوي بالعربي مو زينين كلّش

    So sorry for not being able to provide an arabic version :/

  • http://twitter.com/aksharpatel47 Akshar Patel

    Awesome… I’ve started viewing my computer from a completely different perspective…lol…

  • http://cldx.blogspot.com/ Joern Konopka

    Just read it, it’s awesome, there could be some tweaking in the story pacing here and there but overall it’s an outstanding and very creative read that will give you a LOT of smirks, if your’e a geek that is. It’s kinda like The Matrix meets Tron on OMG!Ubuntu.

  • http://anxiousnut.wordprss.com Anxious Nut

    “The Matrix meets Tron on OMG!Ubuntu” LOL!

    We’re glad you enjoyed it!

  • http://www.twitter.com/wilsonliam Wilsonliam

    I’ve just finished reading this, had some parts that I thought I could predict the outcome of, but I was wrong, haha!

    My only quibble is that it wasn’t that long, I was really into it and it ended quite soon :(

    Great work guys!

  • Anonymous

    i am to please. Really happy that you liked it. as for the story being longer, i guess i didn’t want to make it too big as it might scare away some readers. After all, this is my first geeky story.

    And about the twists and misleads, i meant to do that. In my opinion, a good story is a tricky story lol

    many thanx,
    Yousef A. Mustafa

  • Muhammad Negmualldean

    الست كويتي O_o

  • Muhammad Negmualldean

    علي اي حال هي رائعة جداً وقد اعجبتي ربما اترجمها جزاك الله خيراً ووفقك الي ما يحبه ويرضاه :)

  • http://anxiousnut.wordprss.com Anxious Nut

    بلى، أنا كويتي :)

  • Anonymous

    If you, or anyone else, would like to translate the story to any other languge, please feel free to do so. And also, send us a copy along with your name so we can add you as the translator .. no presure :)

    thanks a lot man

  • http://twitter.com/inkubux Francis Belanger

    I started to read it on the train, I can’t wait to finish it.

  • Anonymous

    Wow, interesting. O,O About time someone wrote an articulate, quippy piece like this. Haha, can’t wait to finish it.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_74476EOULENT32JE7CYWKWTAQI Ahromi

    interesting. haha

  • Will

    is this really what you’ve been spending all that time writing?
    you ubuntu manual guys have really dropped the ball – this hasn’t helped AT ALL

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  • http://twitter.com/inkubux Francis Belanger

    Finished it, It was a totally unique and pleasant adventure

  • Anonymous

    Dude, first of all, LOL!

    listen, this is a fictional story my bro and i wrote in dedication to the OMG!UBUNTU! community. we’re not Ubuntu manual guys.

    that said, enjoy the story :)

  • Will

    :P really?

    i enjoyed the story, but i think it needs more bawdy sexual innuendo. i’m thinking this could be the first Carry On Cyberpunk.
    I’m genuinely sure nobody’s ever combined those two things before – i might write my own, actually.
    “quick, put your floppy in, i need to give the BIOS a good flashing” “oooooh, SYSADMIN!”

    joey – if you’ve got a slow news day (god forbid), hit me up and I’ll write a feature length Carry On Kernel Hacker, exclusive for OMG! Ubuntu!

  • Will

    “go on, show us yer package!”
    *sound of something unzipping*
    “YUM!”

    (i’m a genius, how do i come up with this stuff?)

  • http://anxiousnut.wordprss.com Anxious Nut

    Glad you did :)

    Floppies, although i love’em, we’re in 2010!! lol

    I would’ve definitely added flashing the BIOS, if i had thought about it during production :( Though, the GRUB part was added a few days before the release. Psst, dont let this out XD

  • Anonymous

    THAT WAS SO GOOD! I really, really loved it! Seriously, if you’ve not read it, do it now! You owe it to yourself. Did anyone else find like two spots where “paste” was used instead of “pace?” Either that or I can’t read. There seemed to be a couple of other minor spelling/usage mistakes, but overall it was excellent! How old are the authors, anyhow?

    • http://anxiousnut.wordprss.com Anxious Nut

      Hey thanks for the short review :) am glad you liked it!

      Although we checked it many times, minor mistakes still exist, thanks for the point-outs, well take a look at them!

      About the ages: Yousef, the literary writer, is 22. And I, the geeky one, am 18!

  • Anonymous

    Does laughing my ass off at this make me a geek? xD

  • Anonymous

    I really enjoyed this story :) The idea itself is very interesting and the execution is good as well. I’d only like to point out one thing. The story sometimes seems to fly by too fast. It sometimes seems like one’s reading an abridged version. I wish some dialogue or thoughts were included on some parts instead of narration in which the events were presented. Narration is fine, but if it goes on for too long the whole thing just comes out looking like a summarized version. This is just an observation though, all in all the story’s an enjoyable one and I congratulate the authors on a job well done :)

  • Anonymous

    Mmmm, my youtube channel is in there. Thanks AnxiousNut :)

    • http://anxiousnut.wordprss.com Anxious Nut

      You deserve that! It’s for your effort, bud :D

      • Anonymous

        Didn’t think i did such a good job :P
        this should be a good enough reason for omgubuntu to feature me :P

  • Anonymous

    you have a point there, there are some parts of the story which needed to be more alive rather than narrated. Are you ready to laugh? there are major parts of the story which i originally wrote as thoughts, dialogues and action, but then i changed them as i thought a short narrated paragraph would be more efficient! .. guess i was wrong there, huh.

    And i agree that some events fly to fast. However, keep in mind that readers don’t want dullness or repetitive style. Explaining Kay’s journeys throughout the directories in detail might lose the reader’s attention. Also, some fights were shortened as too much of it might have ruined the story (**spoiler** the only battle in full detail which wasn’t cut out was the final battle between Kay and Pkill)

  • Anonymous

    lol i’m lousy when it comes to spelling. Thanks for telling me about “paste”, i’ll correct it.

    I’ve just turned 22 three days ago, and my bro is 19.

  • Anonymous

    Ahh.. So, if I understand correctly, you shortened the story in order to preserve the flow and keep the reader’s attention? I suppose that after all that was a good choice, since the story’s meant to be read on the full-of-distractions internet… (or at least obtained through it… Chrome opens pdf-s natively, so for quite a while I didn’t even notice I wasn’t on a regular web page :p) Anyhow, it certainly served it’s purpose, I read the whole thing in one go, even though I only clicked the link out of curiosity with no real intention of reading it :)

    • Anonymous

      lol good to know that it caught the attention of people who’re not interested

  • Anonymous

    Haha, I am now, so if you plan on writing a sequel of sorts I’ll be more than happy to read it :)

  • Anonymous

    after reading all the reviews, i’m very encouraged to writting something like it. However, a sequel? .. i think not. sequels usually ruin the original. I write all sorts of stories all the time, but to be honoest, i’m not sure if i’m gonna write any geeky ones anytime soon

  • Anonymous

    Sequel or not, I hope to see more stories like this one in the future :) Not trying to push you or anything, but it really was an interesting read :)

  • Anonymous

    thanx for your support! You made my day ^^

  • Anonymous

    Welcome :)

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/KMPHGHUPTWF44FRE33TFX74DFE Ankur S

    I read with some attention. I found a typo that could be fixed in another version. Great Story and concept though love it. Anyway it’s on page 32, “Syon though of changing Kay’s
    password as to avenge his pride to Kay’s hack.” it should be “thought”

    • Anonymous

      thanks alot for the note. if you find anything else, please say so as i’m fixing it. thanx

  • Anonymous

    I hated this story! D:
    I was supposed to be studying some Molecular Biology bs but then this Wild Story appeared and it was so good it was Super Effective at catching my attention.

    I spent like 1 hour readying this well written story when I could’ve been reading boring stuff about the Elongation Factors of ****ing DNA! D: D: D:

    • Anonymous

      epic!
      My brother and i are speechless and cannot reply other than with an “epic”

  • Anonymous

    yes

  • http://anxiousnut.wordprss.com Anxious Nut

    Oh man, that’s so awesome!! Thanks a lot! :D

    Sorry, I wasn’t able to get to you once you posted it! I just knew about it! We really appreciate it! :D

  • http://anxiousnut.wordprss.com Anxious Nut

    Oh man, that’s so awesome!! Thanks a lot! :D

    Sorry, I wasn’t able to get to you once you posted it! I just knew about it! We really appreciate it! :D

 
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