Orson Scott Card's First Lines

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1. "Some people called it 'the time of the undoing'; some, wishing to be more positive, spoke of it as 'the replenishing' or 'the restoring' or even 'the resurrection' of the Earth." Alternate timelines are a big part of the plot of this novel. Saints The Folk of the Fringe Pastwatch : The Redemption of Christopher Columbus The Memory of Earth

2. "'I'm ten years old, my whole life you've called me Vanya'" Ivan Smetski discovers a hidden clearing in this novel. A Planet Called Treason Ender's Game Enchantment Hot Sleep

3. The older version of this novel begins, "I've endured having four arms, an extra nose, and two hearts pumping away before the surgeon took me under his knife to cut away the excess." Lovelock The Worthing Saga A Planet Called Treason Lost Boys

4. This fantasy novel begins, "O, Palicrovol, with death and vengeance in your eyes, I write to you because over the centuries there are tales you have forgotten, and tales you never knew." The Worthing Saga Seventh Son Hart's Hope Xenocide

5. "Dr. Calhoun Bellamy made it a point to stay away from his property while the crew was tearing down the old Varley house." What horror novel begins with this line? Treasure Box Homebody Ender's Game Speaker for the Dead

6. "'I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.'" This is the first line of Card's most well known novel. Ender's Game The Worthing Saga Ender's Shadow Speaker for the Dead

7. This sequel to another novel begins, "Not many flatboats were getting down the Hio these days, not with pioneers aboard, anyway, not with families and furniture and seed and a few shoats to start a pig herd." Heartfire The Folk of the Fringe Prentice Alvin Red Prophet

8. "Today one of the brothers asked me : Is it a terrible prison, not to be able to move from the one place where you're standing?" Two alien species are having a nonverbal conversation as this novel opens. Xenocide Songmaster Speaker for the Dead Hot Sleep

9. Witchcraft is a big part of the novel that starts with the line, "Quentin Fears never told his parents the last thing his sister Lizzy said to him before they pulled the plug on her and let her die." Flux Lost Boys Treasure Box Homebody

10. "Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme to suppose we could ever look at sociable, tool-making creatures who arose from other evolutionary paths and see not beasts but brothers, not rivals but fellow pilgrims journeying to the shrine of intelligence." This is the first line of Card's second Hugo award winning novel. Shadow of the Giant Speaker for the Dead Enchantment Children of the Mind