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stoutfellow ([personal profile] stoutfellow) wrote2005-09-13 08:02 am
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UZ

Just for the heck of it - and because I do things like this - I went through my library yesterday looking for works of science fiction or fantasy with one-word titles beginning with each letter of the alphabet. Here's what I came up with:

Arslan (M. J. Engh), Barrayar (Bujold), Cetaganda (Bujold), Dune (Herbert), Eon (Bear), Flameweaver (Margaret Ball), Grass (Tepper), Hogfather (Pratchett), Inheritor (Cherryh), Jingo (Pratchett), Komarr (Bujold), Lavondyss (Robert Holdstock), Madouc (Vance), Norstrilia (C. Smith), Orca (Brust), Pyramids (Pratchett), Quicksilver (Stephenson), Ringworld (Niven), Sourcery (Pratchett), Tamsin (Beagle), Valis (Dick), Wyrms (Card), Xenocide (Card), Yvgenie (Cherryh).

The attentive (or badly in need of stimulation) reader will note that the letters U and Z are missing.

Would anyone care to nominate the best (or, failing that, good) works of F/SF, with one-word titles, beginning with those two letters?
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[personal profile] filkferengi 2005-09-16 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
If you don't mind more than one word, Andre Norton wrote titles starting with each letter of the alphabet.

This reminds me of the time I started the thread on the Bujold list, listing alphabetically all the shows we liked that immediately got cancelled. Iirc, we eventually got most of the alphabet.