Darwinian Replicant (Meme)

Remember when I moved over to Typepad?  In my moving statement (ha, get it?) I said that I hated memes, but that I liked being tagged for them? Someone heard me.  Ceresina tagged me for this, but PZ Myers at Pharyngula started it as a means of demonstrating evolution in cyberspace.

Even though I don't think I'm a very good example of a Darwinian replicant, I'm sending this meme to:

• Joanna
• Terry
• Chris
• Nels
• Liz

Click below for the actual meme.

First, the rules:

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:

• You can leave them exactly as is.
• You can delete any one question.
• 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...".
• 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.

The lineage:

• My great-great-great-great-great-grandparent is Flying Trilobite.
• My great-great-great-great-grandparent is A Blog Around the Clock.
• My great-great-great-grandparent is Primate Diaries.
• My great-great-grandparent is Thus Spake Zuska.
• My great-grandparent is Kate.
• My parent is Finally Maturing.

The Questions and Answers:

• The best adult novel in SF/Fantasy is:  Dawn (Xenogenesis) by Octavia Butler
• The best scary movie in modern pop culture is:  Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock
• The best sexy song in classic rock music is: Prove It All Night by Bruce Springsteen (the live version . . . sexy as hell)
• The best cult novel in academic fiction is: Straight Man by Richard Russo
• The best high-carb food in American cooking is fried mac and cheese. (Surprisingly good.)

Comments

[joanna]

Okay.I'll try it. In a few days...

[Billie]

Hahaha. I knew you (and the other memesters) would love being tagged as much as I did. I do believe in sharing the love. Enjoy! ;-)

[Terry]

Ok, just did it. I really wanted to change more than one!

[ceresina]

Yay! thanks for doing it!