Depends on what kind of geek we’re talking about. For the classic style, I have the “lawsuit edition” (Cthulhu + Melnibone) of the AD&D Deities and Demigods. I probably also still have a copy of the Dragon magazine that my article was published in. For cooking geek, I have a personalized signed copy of Alton Brown’s I’m Just Here for the Food; my sister was roommates with someone whose sister worked on his show, and they arranged to get a signed copy for my birthday.
“One” starts with a consonant sound (w); normally “an” is used (at least in American English) when the next word starts with a vowel sound.
That’s what I was thinking. Danke.
Every issue of the original “The Tick” comic run, as well as several issues of the spin-off comics, including a limited edition signed #1 of The Tick in Color.
Oh, also my copy of MST3K the Movie, autographed by Mike Nelson.
14" Boba Fett with grappling hook/missile backpack?
X-Wing? TIE Fighter? Millennium Falcon?
Since I can’t find it, I’d have to say my autographed picture of Joel, Tom Servo, Crow and Gypsy. In order it says (said) “To Bob”, “To Big Bad Bob”, “To Bob Bad Big”. Gypsy didn’t sign it.
Man, what Dreamcast owner didn’t pick up MvsC2? That game was awesome!
Oh, and if we’re listing signed comic books; I have the complete run of the X-titles’ Fatal Attractions miniseries (you know, where they killed Magneto, until he got better… oh! and Wolverine lost his adamantium and his claws… until he got better 
), signed by artists and writers who worked on them, in protective sleeves (the collectors edition ones with the holograms in the covers). I also have almost the complete run of the Phalanx Covenant (liquid-metal nanomachine sentinels try to take over the world), all but one issue of the Generation Next sub-arc, also signed by various people who worked on them.
I inherited my brothers’ extensive collection of Star Wars toys from the original trilogies release, but most of that is in very poor condition (having suffered through two boys’ childhoods). The Millenium Falcon is missing just about anything that could be detached, and I can’t for the life of me find the TIE-Fighter or the X-Wing even though I know for certain I never took them out of the house. At least I still have the Rebel Snowspeeder in good condition; and a playset of the trash-compactor room from the deathstar!
My robot collection that includes Robbie and R2D2. Or maybe it’s my collection of Godzilla stuff. No, wait, what about my Gen 1 Transformers? God, I’m starting to scare myself.
Apparently a lot of them. I think most people had jumped ship to the PS2 by that point.
Your assessment of the game’s quality is dead on, however.
Ooh. I don’t know if it’s my signed “Wizard of Speed and Time” poster or my Doctor Who t-shirt. I certainly wear the t-shirt more often than I see the poster, which is in a closet.
Oh, and I also have a neat poster of Darth Vader telling you to READ, which is both geeky and librariany.
Well, I got rid of my (original-printing) Deities & Demigods AND my Gods, Demi-gods and Heroes… and my micronauts are now of the recent re-issue, not vintage (thrown out by mom, sniff)…
So I’ll have to go with my copy of Neil Gaiman’s 24-hour comic, “Being An Account Of The Life and Death of the Emperor Heliogabolus”. Which is signed, illegibly, in a goldish ink. Seriously, I have no idea what that word is supposed to be. Is it a “Neil”? “Gaiman”? The starting letter could be a “G” or “J” or “T” or something, then a couple of bumps that could be part of a “w” or “m” or “n” maybe, then an ending loop like part of a “d” or “l”. Perplexing. But the comic is educational and clever, even if he can’t draw a horse. Or a zombie, really.
I gotta go with the latest. Serenity ship’s papers.
I still have those, they are even in good shape. The box is trashed.
Still have both of those.
However, my favorite geek/nerd possession is either my First Printing of the Red Book of Westmarch (The Lord of the Rings) or my third printing of the Return of the King (American printing).
I don’t think it counts, but I have a small medicine bottle of dirt from the warning track of Yankee Stadium from right before game 1 of the 1998 World Series. If it counts, I will put that ahead of the Tolkien books.
Jim
I’ve posted about this before, but definitely my August 1928 isue of Amazing Stories, the one with the “Buck Rogers” cover {actually it isn’t him} which has the first ever Buck Rogers and E. E. Doc Smith “Skylark” stories. Probably the most collectable magazine issue in SF, and it’s mine, all mine!
Oh, and a set of miniature vinyl Gigantor figurines.
Yeah, but do you have the limited edition 33 card set signed by Ben himself?
Hey, I got that for my Austen-mad wife last Christmas! She - and later, her book club - really got a kick out of it.
Mine has to be my Next Generation Playmates phaser and tricorder, both of which were modified with DIY kits that give them additional lights and make them much closer to the props used in the show. I especially love the phaser because it has the power indicator that lights up incrementally as you press one of the buttons, plus the bulb was swapped out so when you press the fire button it is bright enough to put a spot on the wall.
Hmmm. Let’s see…
I have this, this, and this. And a few more.
I have a signed print of Keith Parkinson’s The Druid Stone, and a signed copy of his book Knightsbridge.
I have a first edition of the Industrial Light and Magic book Art of Special Effects.
I have the complete DVD boxset of DangerMouse episodes, and am currently collecting the Count Duckula sets too.
A friend of mine has a Darth Vader light sabre hilt, the very first thing ever autographed by Hayden Christensen (signed during the production of Attack of the Clones), where he wrote “I’ve been wondering where this got to.”
That is indeed the one.
Oh, I remembered another one. My double-sided theatrical poster of Tremors. That big mouth scares the shit out of people who don’t know it’s there.