10-02-2009, 08:50 PM | #1 |
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What are your favorite opening lines to a sci/fi novel?
Did you ever buy or get hooked on a sci/fi novel because of the very first line? What are your favorites?
Neuromancer - "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel" |
10-02-2009, 09:15 PM | #2 |
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...to wound the autumnal city.
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10-03-2009, 01:16 AM | #6 |
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***It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.***
One of my all time favourite opening lines. Orwell's 1984, of course. N |
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10-03-2009, 05:29 AM | #8 |
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"Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man."
Joe Haldeman - "The Forever War". |
10-03-2009, 05:48 AM | #10 |
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"No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water."
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10-03-2009, 05:49 AM | #11 |
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Good one, Sparrow. That one really is a "classic", in every sense.
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You really should read it, Marc! You can download it here at MR.
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It's a very short book; you can easily read it in an evening.
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