The Pharyngula Mutating Genre Meme

This one was started by PZ Myers at Pharyngula as a means of demonstrating evolution in cyberspace. I’m going to tap Ahistoricality, ***Dave, Sherry, Burrow, and Lynn for the next round.

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.
• Mygreat-great-great-grandparent is Primate Diaries.

My great-great-grandparent is Thus Spake Zuska.

• My great-grandparent is Kate.
• My grandparent is Finally Maturing.
• My parent is Parts-n-Pieces

The Questions and Answers:

• The best adult novel in SF/Fantasy is: Dune by Frank Herbert
• The best scary movie in modern pop culture is: The Omen (The original – saw it at the drive-in when I was 16.)
• The best sexy song in classic rock music is: Don’t Wanna Miss A Thing by Aerosmith
• The best cult novel in romance fiction is: Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
• The best high-carb food in American cooking is: fried cornmeal mush

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