Friday, July 25, 2008

Great Opening Sentences From Science Fiction

Opening Sentences: Great Opening Sentences From Science Fiction: "You can tell a lot about a science fiction book from its first sentence."

Check 'em out. Thanks to Gerard Saylor for the link.

5 comments:

Randy Johnson said...

The one opening line from an SF story that's stuck with me is from an Alan Dean Foster short story that I don't even remember the title. Sad, I know.
The line is:
This is the story of two people and how three of them died.

JD Rhoades said...

"In five years, the penis will be obsolete," the salesman said. -John Varley, STEEL BEACH

Anonymous said...

Science fiction stories Rhoades, not horror stories.

Todd Mason said...

They could find no better Sturgeon opening line than that from VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA?

Randy, your lost line is much favored by malignant spam sites.

mybillcrider said...

They hadn't read a lot of the same SF I have.