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The cult British band Bang Bang Machine produced a song called "Geek Love", inspired by Dunn's book. They also invited the book's cover artist, David Hughes, to design their own album cover.
The British singer/songwriter Nerina Pallot also has a song called "Geek Love", included on her 2006 album Fires.
The Texas band Seed had a song inspired by the book called "Kids...This is Fabulon" on their 1994 album Ling.
Musicians Amanda Palmer (of The Dresden Dolls) and Jason Webley formed the band Evelyn Evelyn in 2007, and together wrote a concept album based on the fictional story of conjoined twins "Evelyn Neville and Evelyn Neville". The story has many parallels with Geek Love, having drawn heavy inspiration from Dunn's book.
The novel's title is also namechecked in the Regurgitator album Tu-plang on the track "Miffy's Simplicity", as band member Ben Ely was reading the book at the time.
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