Meme attack! Sorted science fiction

Posted by Paul Raven @ 05-12-2006 in Science Fiction •

Well, we can blame Niall Harrison for this one, but he’s a nice guy, so don’t get too crazy at him when this little game consumes an hour of your life…

…although to be fair the BBoC crew spotted the original idea, and Niall just rolled out the sf version, hence throwing down an irresistible challenge to anyone with a lot of books and the (possibly false) notion that they’re witty. Yup, sounds like me.

For those who can’t be bothered to click through, here’s the original art-project concept:

“The process is the same in every case: culling through a collection of books, pulling particular titles, and eventually grouping the books into clusters so that the titles can be read in sequence, from top to bottom. The final results are shown either as photographs of the book clusters or as the actual stacks themselves, shown on the shelves of the library they were drawn from. Taken as a whole, the clusters from each sorting aim to examine that particular library’s focus, idiosyncrasies, and inconsistencies � a cross-section of that library’s holdings.”

And here are my attempts from the home library:

As gothic as we wanna be…

Waxing poetical?

Word association therapy!

Black hole sun, won’t you come…

Can an omnipotent being create an object too heavy for it to move?

Lots of fun! Won’t you come and play along?

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2 Responses to “Meme attack! Sorted science fiction”

Niall says:
December 5th, 2006 at 10:26 pm

I like the last one. There’s a lot of possibilities with The Holy Machine …
» Show the world your stack » Velcro City Tourist Board » Blog Archive says:
May 7th, 2007 at 8:19 pm

[...] I think I’ll be obliged to share, as soon as I can get all the relevant books into one place. I imagine Niall (and many others) will struggle to find a camera with a lens that can encompass the their whole stack, though … this reminds me of the brief flurry of fun we had with the sorted spine titles game. [...]