Unforgettable Opening Paragraphs

Post by **Sorus** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 6:39 am

Thankya!

Never would've gotten that, though I might have to check it out.
Yet another one for the list.

Post by **Sorus** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 12:12 am

An easy one just to keep the thread active:

The prophet was drowning men on Great Wyk when they came to tell him that the king was dead.

Post by **danlo** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 5:44 am

Has to be an ASOIAF book...

Post by **Sorus** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 7:39 am

Yes! But which one?

Post by **Dragonlily** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 2:51 pm

It's FEAST FOR CROWS, except that you skipped the Prologue.

A new one. I know some of you have read this.

On the day I grew up enough for my hair to start turning white, my parents summoned all the members of our thronging cluster to the family khuta, for a ceremony giving me my proper name -- Hph-wayuo.

Post by **Sorus** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 7:21 pm

It was a more interesting line.

I believe your quote is from Uplift, though I couldn't say which book.

(Read them years ago.)

Post by **Dragonlily** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 3:28 am

True, it was.

Yes, anybody?

Post by **Sorus** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 3:42 am

It's from the second trilogy - either Infinity's Shore or Brightness Reef. Whichever came first.

Post by **Sorus** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 4:02 am

It's from the second trilogy - either Infinity's Shore or Brightness Reef. Whichever came first.

[edit] Okay, bookcase time. Brightness Reef. Hey, you skipped the prologue too!

Twenty-six months before her second birthday, Maia learned the true difference between winter and summer.

It wasn't simply the weather, or the way hot-season lightning storms used to crackle amid tall ships anchored in the harbor. Nor even the eye-tingling stab of Wengel - so distinct from other stars.

The real difference was much more personal.

[edit again] Didn't mean to double post there.

Post by **Dragonlily** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 4:33 am

Brin's GLORY SEASON

I'll look around for another entry, but anyone else who has one is welcome to jump in.

Post by **danlo** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 5:08 am

Fins had been making wisecracks about human beings for thousands of years. They had always found men terribly funny. The fact that humanity had recently meddled with their genes, and taught them engineering, hadn't done much to change their attitude.
Fins were still smart-alecks

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Post by **Dragonlily** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 5:13 am

I can't find my copy offhand, but that has to be SUNDIVER.

Post by **danlo** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 5:33 am

very close, but not right...

Post by **Dragonlily** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 5:38 am

OK, you skipped the Prologue too.

It's STARTIDE RISING.

Post by **Landroval** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 5:09 pm

The best I've ever been forced to read is "To Kill a Mockingbird" at school. Can't think of a bad one I've been forced to read.

Post by **Avatar** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 12:23 pm

Did you click on the wrong thread there by chance Landroval?

--A

Post by **Sorus** » Tue Nov 29, 2005 8:35 pm

Yes, I know it's not my turn.

There had been harbingers. Early in May of 2203, news-machines were excited by a flight of white crows over Sweden. A series of unexpected fires demolished half the Oiseau-Lyre Hill, a basic industrial pivot of the system. Small round stones fell near work-camp installations on Mars. At Batavia, the Directorate of the nine-planet Federation, a two-headed Jersey calf was born: a certain sign that something of incredible magnitude was brewing.

Post by **Dragonlily** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 3:22 am

Glad to have you, Sorus. I've been doing it too much. Or anybody else who runs into a good stumper when the thread is between games, for that matter.

And I know I've never read that one!

Post by **Sorus** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 6:45 am

It's a little on the obscure side, but I'm thinking that Cail or maybe Danlo might recognize it.

Post by **lucimay** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 6:53 am

ok...i've been thinking...i THINK it's Phillip K Dick...but i've got no idea why i think this...i haven't really read a lot of PKD, but there's something about it...am i warm, Captain?

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Unforgettable Opening Paragraphs