The Electronic Replicant

Just when you thought you’d seen the last of the meme, I had to go and drag one out of the timeless depths of the Internet. This is the ABC Book Meme:

For this meme, you list a favorite book that starts with each letter of the alphabet. If you don’t have a book for a letter (such as Z or X) than you can substitute a favorite book that simply has that letter in the title (ex. The Lost City of Z or Hot Six by Janet Evanovich). However, you can only do this a maximum of 3 times. (Z, X, and Q. But not Z, X, Q, and V.) Books can be of any genre from fiction to non-fiction to poetry to textbooks.

I created my list the easy way, by sorting my LibraryThing catalog alphabetically and then by checking my ratings. Of course, many times there were letters of the alphabet with only one book, and sometimes that was not even a good one. A few times there was not even that.

1. Artificial Life: A Report from the Frontier Where Computers Meet Biology by Steven Levy
2. Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream by Barbara Ehrenreich
3. Corum: The Coming Of Chaos by Michael Moorcock
4. Diaspora by Greg Egan
5. Earth by David Brin
6. Feast of Souls by C.S. Friedman
7. Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage by Heather Rogers
8. Hackers by Steven Levy
9. In The Blink Of An Eye: How Vision Sparked The Big Bang Of Evolution by Andrew Parker
10. I, Jedi by Michael Stackpole
11. Kobiyashi Maru by Julia Ecklar.
12. Long, Dark Tea-time of the Soul by Douglas Adams
13. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
14. Neuromancer by William Gibson
15. On a Pale Horse by Piers Anthony
16. Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
17. Quasar, Quasar Burning Bright by Isaac Asimov
18. Ring of Charon by Roger McBride Allen
19. The Silmarillon by J.R.R. Tolkien
20. That’s Mr. Faggot to You : Further Trials from My Queer Life by Michael Thomas Ford
21. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud
22. Virtual Light by William Gibson
23. Words Without Pictures by Steve Niles
24. A Spell For Chameleon (Xanth #1) by Piers Anthony
25. You and Your Aquarium by Dick Mills
26. Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny

Oh, and maybe tomorrow, I’ll write a real post.