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.'"? "The Dispossesed," by Ursula K.LeGuin "I, Robot," by Isaac Asimov "Ender's Game," by Orson Scott Card "Dune," by Frank Herbert

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 "Lucifer's Hammer," by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle "Slaughterhouse-Five," by Kurt Vonnegut "The Martian Chronicles," by Ray Bradbury

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

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? "Alas, Babylon," by Pat Frank "Eternity Road," by Jack McDevitt "The Left Hand of Darkness," by Ursula K. LeGuin "Ringworld," by Larry Niven

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

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? "Foundation," by Isaac Asimov "Startide Rising," by David Brin "Stranger in a Strange Land," by Robert A. Heinlein "A Deepness in the Sky," by Vernor Vinge

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."? "The Forge of God," by Greg Bear "A Canticle for Leibowitz," by Walter M. Miller, Jr. "Feersum Endjinn," by Iain M. Banks "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 "Rendezvous with Rama," by Arthur C. Clarke "The Mote in God's Eye," by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle "The Gods Themselves," by Isaac Asimov