More Science Fiction First Lines

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1. Which work by Diana Wynne-Jones starts with the line "Have you heard of the Flying Dutchman? No? Nor of the Wandering Jew? Well it doesn't matter."? A Sudden Wild Magic Conrad's Fate The Homeward Bounders The Eight Days Of Luke

2. Which Anne McCaffrey book opens with the line "Torrents of rain covered the western side of the great Tranh mountain range of Altair, streaming in muddy runnels down slopes already saturated with nine straight days of precipitation."? Powers That Be The Rowan Freedom's Landing Acorna

3. Which science fiction classic opens with the line "Dr Strauss says I shoud rite down what I think and remembir and evrey thing that happins to me from now on." (sic) Riddley Walker I Q 48 The Day it Rained Forever Flowers for Algernon

4. "The reeds scarcely moved as the animals wound their way through them." is the first line of which classic dystopian novel? The Death of Grass A Wrinkle in the Skin Greybeard The Drowned World

5. Which Andre Norton novel begins with the lines "The city was very large. When Kristie had been one of the very Littles, she used to make herself dizzy by lying on her back and looking up." The Last Planet Galactic Derelict Outside Octagon Magic

6. "Today we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man." is the opening line of which novel? The Forever War Foundation and Empire Starship Troopers The Last Legionary

7. Which classic science fiction novel opens with the line "Like a radar echo bounding from a distant object and returning to its source, the sound of Roy Complain's beating heart seemed to him to fill the clearing."? Hammerfall Time For The Stars Non-Stop Orphans of the Sky

8. Which book by Mike Resnick opens with the line "'This place looks pretty full,' remarked Thaddeus Flint to the brightly clad, undersized hunchback standing next to him."? Eros at Nadir Ivory: A Legend of Past and Future The Return of Santiago The Best Rootin' Tootin' Shootin' Gunslinger in the Whole Damned Galaxy

9. The following is the first line of the "Prodrome" of a science fiction novel by John Christopher. Which one? "As sometimes happens, death healed a family breach." The Death of Grass The Guardians A Wrinkle in the Skin Wild Jack

10. Which Young Adult book by Alan Garner begins with the line "The guard knocked on the door of the compartment as he went past." The Owl Service Elidor The Weirdstone of Brisingamen The Stone Book