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Introduction:
"Can you remember which science fiction books the following first lines are from? Some are from 'Young Adult' fiction."


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."?
    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
    Flowers for Algernon
    The Day it Rained Forever
    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?
    A Wrinkle in the Skin
    Greybeard
    The Drowned World
    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."
    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."?
    Ivory: A Legend of Past and Future
    Eros at Nadir
    The Best Rootin' Tootin' Shootin' Gunslinger in the Whole Damned Galaxy
    The Return of Santiago


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."
    Wild Jack
    A Wrinkle in the Skin
    The Death of Grass
    The Guardians


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 Owl Service
    The Stone Book
    The Weirdstone of Brisingamen


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