Busy with the script for a video looking at corking opening lines of science fiction novels. What are your favourites? 🪐📚
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I’m pretty much f-ed.
That’s my considered opinion.
F-ed.
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I remember exclaiming out loud on Twitter when I read that. This was back in 2014!!!
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Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
-Robert Heinlein, Beyond this Horizon.
'Immortality Inc.' by Robert Sheckley.
"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel"
Shadow of the Torturer has a short, but effective one.
"It is possible I already had some presentiment of my future."
"A merry little surge of electricity piped by automatic alarm from the mood organ beside his bed awakened Rick Deckard"
*By which I mean: pirated?
Also I think the opening to Count Zero is just as good as the opening to Neuromancer: "They set a slamhound on Turner’s trail in New Delhi, slotted it to his pheromones and the color of his hair."
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the “Dawn Treader”
Wyndham’s ‘Day of the Triffids’ 👍