Great Opening Lines - A Challenge List - VOLUME THREE
Submitted by bertie on Tue, 09/27/2005 - 08:15
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- 1. Unidentified: "The dead man drifted along in the breeze." HINT: This is by one of the two authors of the recently published WHITE MARS. It's not from one of his better-known novels, but it sure is a great opening line.
- 2. Unidentified: "It came in vertically, punching a hole 10km wide through the atmosphere, generating temperatures so high that the air itself started to burn."
- 3. Unidentified: "The Invisible Bicycle burned beneath me in the moonlight, its transparent wheels refracting the hard white light into rainbow colors that played across the blacktop."
- 4. Unidentified: "Aboard His Britannic Majesty's air-dreadnought William and Mary as it leaves the Command Holdfast buried beneath the cratered mudscape once known as London in the one-hundred-and-first year of the war are 112 ratings, 66 officers, and six highly important, highly secret passengers: Air Lord Blennerbasset, Admiralty Lord Van Loos, Marshal Valery-Petain, Director Ames, Sub-Academician Giorgio Joyce and his father, senior Academician James Joyce."
- 5. Unidentified: "It is a moot point whether burglary is to be considered as a sport, a trade, or an art."
Volumes One and Two have been archived.
You are welcome to offer challenges, but not anonymously. Also, you must give an e-mail address to either myself or Jim so you can be contacted when someone takes your challenge.