{"id":561,"date":"2007-01-10T22:58:35","date_gmt":"2007-01-11T06:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/?p=561"},"modified":"2007-01-10T22:58:35","modified_gmt":"2007-01-11T06:58:35","slug":"bored-so-a-meme-ing-we-will-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/10\/bored-so-a-meme-ing-we-will-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Bored, so a-meme-ing we will go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/greyduck.net\/journal\/1698\">Linky<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bold the ones you\u2019ve read, strike-out the ones you hated, italicize those you started but never finished and put an asterisk beside the ones you loved.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien *<\/strong><br \/>\n2. The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov (Hmm&#8230;I keep meaning to&#8230;)<br \/>\n<strong>3. Dune, Frank Herbert<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>4. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein *<\/strong><br \/>\n5. A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin<br \/>\n<strong>6. Neuromancer, William Gibson *<\/strong><br \/>\n7. Childhood\u2019s End, Arthur C. Clarke<br \/>\n8. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick<br \/>\n9. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley<br \/>\n<strong>10. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury *<\/strong><br \/>\n11. The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe<br \/>\n12. A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr.<br \/>\n<strong>13. The Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov<\/strong><br \/>\n14. Children of the Atom, Wilmar Shiras<br \/>\n15. Cities in Flight, James Blish<br \/>\n16. The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett<br \/>\n<strong>17. Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison *<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>18. Deathbird Stories, Harlan Ellison *<\/strong>(Go out and get  Stalking The Nightmare. Now. Really.)<br \/>\n19. The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester<br \/>\n20. Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany<br \/>\n<strong>21. Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>22. Ender\u2019s Game, Orson Scott Card<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><strike>23. The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Stephen R. Donaldson<\/strike><\/em> (Gods-awful bit of crap I tried to read on a bus trip.)<br \/>\n24. The Forever War, Joe Haldeman<br \/>\n25. Gateway, Frederik Pohl<br \/>\n26. Harry Potter and the Philosopher\u2019s Stone, J.K. Rowling (I am what, one of ten who haven&#8217;t?)<br \/>\n<strong>27. The Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams *<\/strong><br \/>\n28. I Am Legend, Richard Matheson<br \/>\n<strong>29. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice <\/strong><br \/>\n30. The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin<br \/>\n31. Little, Big, John Crowley<br \/>\n32. Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny<br \/>\n<strong>33. The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick<\/strong> (Boring)<br \/>\n34. Mission of Gravity, Hal Clement<br \/>\n35. More Than Human, Theodore Sturgeon<br \/>\n36. The Rediscovery of Man, Cordwainer Smith<br \/>\n37. On the Beach, Nevil Shute<br \/>\n<strong>38. Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke *<\/strong><br \/>\n39. Ringworld, Larry Niven (No, but did read the one about the trees.)<br \/>\n40. Rogue Moon, Algis Budrys<br \/>\n<em>41. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien <\/em>(I had an old, old copy, but no idea what came of it. I don&#8217;t know anyone who has managed to finish it.)<br \/>\n42. Slaughterhouse-5, Kurt Vonnegut<br \/>\n<strong>43. Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson<\/strong> (I am the Deliverator!)<br \/>\n44. Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner<br \/>\n45. The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester<br \/>\n46. Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein<br \/>\n47. Stormbringer, Michael Moorcock<br \/>\n<strong>48. The Sword of Shannara, Terry Brooks <\/strong><br \/>\n49. Timescape, Gregory Benford<br \/>\n50. To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip Jose Farmer<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linky Bold the ones you\u2019ve read, strike-out the ones you hated, italicize those you started but never finished and put an asterisk beside the ones you loved. 1. The Lord <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/10\/bored-so-a-meme-ing-we-will-go\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}