The Wrecks of Time
Jun. 1st, 2006 08:12 pmOkay, seen chez
ceejbot and
fredfred, among others:
Pick ten of your favorite books, look them up on Amazon.com, and find the list of Statistically Improbable Phrases for those novels. Pick a few SIPs from each book, list them here, and then have people guess what books they are. (Obviously, using Google or Amazon to figure it out is cheating.)
Well, Steven Brust's The Sun, The Moon & The Stars was already done by
ronebofh, and Janet Kagan's Hellspark doesn't seem have to have its text scanned, so let's move further down the list.
1. switchboard counter, hygiene anxiety, love therapist, violet dress
2. red vixen, last portal, blue wine, green moon
3. comconsole desk, vid plate, maple mead, needle grenade
4. electron reactor, gene witch, anatoxic plastocene, compression burrowing rounds
5. two saboteurs, tier wall, sergeant sighed, spinning coin
6. chief acolyte, dojo master, fifth surprise, glass clock
7. rising adulthood, generational diagonal, two social moments, entering elderhood
8. entertainment bubbles, registration catalogue, vacuum personnel, sentient citizen
9. onion knight, valar morghulis, bronze harpy
10. green stone box, scaffolding fell, parade ring, faceted stones
Okay, I can't honestly vouch that all of these are among my favourites per se, considering how few of those were searchable on Amazon, but at least I can say that I enjoyed reading all of them. Best of luck.
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Pick ten of your favorite books, look them up on Amazon.com, and find the list of Statistically Improbable Phrases for those novels. Pick a few SIPs from each book, list them here, and then have people guess what books they are. (Obviously, using Google or Amazon to figure it out is cheating.)
Well, Steven Brust's The Sun, The Moon & The Stars was already done by
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1. switchboard counter, hygiene anxiety, love therapist, violet dress
2. red vixen, last portal, blue wine, green moon
3. comconsole desk, vid plate, maple mead, needle grenade
4. electron reactor, gene witch, anatoxic plastocene, compression burrowing rounds
5. two saboteurs, tier wall, sergeant sighed, spinning coin
6. chief acolyte, dojo master, fifth surprise, glass clock
7. rising adulthood, generational diagonal, two social moments, entering elderhood
8. entertainment bubbles, registration catalogue, vacuum personnel, sentient citizen
9. onion knight, valar morghulis, bronze harpy
10. green stone box, scaffolding fell, parade ring, faceted stones
Okay, I can't honestly vouch that all of these are among my favourites per se, considering how few of those were searchable on Amazon, but at least I can say that I enjoyed reading all of them. Best of luck.