Thinking

Why isn't there a literary genome project?

The music genome project and accompanying website is a brilliant piece of work (although I wish they'd let me select the "genes" with which I want to construct a station), and my cutting-edge music discovery process has been immensely simplified.

So some librarians or something should do the same for books. At least in fiction the books' style, characters, influences, and themes could totally be categorized in the world's coolest library. Reading would be hip again. Loving books would be standard.

Right now I'd make a station with Tamora Pierce, China Mieville, and Nancy Farmer's The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm as seeds... tell me that doesn't sound fabulous.