Opening Lines of Sci-Fi Classics

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1. Which sci-fi novel begins: "'I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.'"? "I, Robot," by Isaac Asimov "The Dispossesed," by Ursula K.LeGuin "Dune," by Frank Herbert "Ender's Game," by Orson Scott Card

2. "One minute it was Ohio winter, with doors closed, windows locked, the panes blind with frost, icicles fringing every roof, children skiing on slopes, housewives lumbering like great black bears in their furs along the icy streets." Which novel is this from? "Earth Abides," by George R. Stewart "The Martian Chronicles," by Ray Bradbury "Slaughterhouse-Five," by Kurt Vonnegut "Lucifer's Hammer," by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

3. "'I always get the shakes before a drop.'" This is the opening line from which classic? "Rendezvous with Rama," by Arthur C. Clarke "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?," by Philip K. Dick "Hyperion," by Dan Simmons "Starship Troopers," by Robert A. Heinlein

4. "I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination." Which award-winning novel is this from? "The Left Hand of Darkness," by Ursula K. LeGuin "Ringworld," by Larry Niven "Eternity Road," by Jack McDevitt "Alas, Babylon," by Pat Frank

5. Which dystopian classic begins with: "A squat, grey building of only thirty-four stories."? "Altered Carbon," by Richard Morgan "1984," by George Orwell "Brave New World," by Aldous Huxley "Fahrenheit 451," by Ray Bradbury

6. "His name was Gaal Dornick and he was just a country boy who had never seen Trantor before." This line introduces which sci-fi classic? "A Deepness in the Sky," by Vernor Vinge "Stranger in a Strange Land," by Robert A. Heinlein "Foundation," by Isaac Asimov "Startide Rising," by David Brin

7. "The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended." This is the opening line from what novel? "The Dragonriders of Pern," by Anne McCaffrey "Caves of Steel," by Isaac Asimov "2001," by Arthur C. Clarke "Cryptonomicon," by Neal Stephenson

8. What classic novel begins with: "Brother Francis Gerard of Utah might never have discovered the blessed documents, had it not been for the pilgrim with girded loins who appeared during that novice's Lenten fast in the desert."? "A Canticle for Leibowitz," by Walter M. Miller, Jr. "Feersum Endjinn," by Iain M. Banks "The Forge of God," by Greg Bear "When Gravity Fails," by George Alec Effinger

9. "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." This is the first line of what award-winning sci-fi novel? "Chasm City," by Alastair Reynolds "Neuromancer," by William Gibson "Snow Crash," by Neal Stephenson "Songs of a Distant Earth," by Arthur C. Clarke

10. "Sooner or later, it was bound to happen." Which sci-fi classic begins with this ominous line? "Hammerfall," by C.J. Cherryh "The Gods Themselves," by Isaac Asimov "The Mote in God's Eye," by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle "Rendezvous with Rama," by Arthur C. Clarke