Wednesday, 17 October 2007

See the little nuclei

The Pharyngula mutating genre meme.

Before I go any further I have to apologise if I haven't quite got the heredity right, genetics isn't really my bag but I do enjoy a bit of sci-fi.

There are a set of questions below that are all of the form, “The best [subgenre] [medium] in [genre] is‚ …”. Copy the questions, and before answering them, you may modify them in a limited way, carrying out no more than two of these operations:

A. You can leave them exactly as is.

B. You can delete any one question.

C. You can mutate either the genre, medium, or subgenre of any one question. For instance, you could change “The best time travel novel in SF/Fantasy is‚” to “The best time travel novel in Westerns is‚ …”, or “The best time travel movie in SF/Fantasy is‚ …”, or “The best romance novel in SF/Fantasy is‚ …”.

D. You can add a completely new question of your choice to the end of the list, as long as it is still in the form “The best [subgenre] [medium] in [genre] is‚ …”.

*You must have at least one question in your set, or you’ve gone extinct, and you must be able to answer it yourself, or you’re not viable.

*Then answer your possibly mutant set of questions. Please do include a link back to the blog you got them from, to simplify tracing the ancestry, and include these instructions.

*Finally, pass it along to any number of your fellow bloggers. Remember, though, your success as a Darwinian replicator is going to be measured by the propagation of your variants, which is going to be a function of both the interest your well-honed questions generate and the number of successful attempts at reproducing them.

My parent is: Zoe

1. The best time travel novel in SF/Fantasy is…
Timeline by Michael Crichton

2. The best romantic movie in science fiction is…
Armageddon (I know I'm losing some credibility here but I love that movie)

3. The best (loosely) sci-fi song in rock is…
Waltzinblack by The Stranglers. Heeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

4.The best humorous novel series in sf/fantansy is…
The Discworld books by Terry Pratchett

My victims for this meme are…

Well here's where my genes start to peter out because I'm not going to nominate anyone, there's a growing trend among my correspondents, they no longer want to do the do the tag and run thing, and to be honest I can understand why. Feel free to play along if you want to. Que sera sera.

5 Comments:

Drama Queen said...

Far too complicated for my limited bandwidth. . .

Glamourpuss said...

Jesus, you lost me by the second sentence. But Well done for understanding all that. I guess I should be extinct.

Puss

Shaz said...

Lost me on this one! Just pleased there's no tagging invovled!

Calamity Jane said...

Ach you lot! Believe me it took me about 5 reads before I got it.

Mr Mans Wife said...

Thank goodness I'm not the only one! I echo the words of Drama Queen and Glamourpuss.