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."? Conrad's Fate A Sudden Wild Magic The Eight Days Of Luke The Homeward Bounders

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."? Acorna Powers That Be The Rowan Freedom's Landing

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) Flowers for Algernon The Day it Rained Forever Riddley Walker I Q 48

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

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." Galactic Derelict The Last Planet Octagon Magic Outside

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

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."? Time For The Stars Hammerfall Orphans of the Sky Non-Stop

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."? The Best Rootin' Tootin' Shootin' Gunslinger in the Whole Damned Galaxy The Return of Santiago Eros at Nadir Ivory: A Legend of Past and Future

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." Elidor The Weirdstone of Brisingamen The Stone Book The Owl Service