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popcorn
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response 8 of 36:
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Jan 3 17:09 UTC 1993 |
Hm... the second quote in #5 sounds very familiar to me, maybe John Varley,
but i've never read Zelazny's "The Trumps of Doom". Unless it's an Amber
book from early in the series, in which case i've probably already forgotten
the whole plot....
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cwb
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response 9 of 36:
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Jan 5 03:50 UTC 1993 |
The Trumps of Doom is the first book in the second series that
follows and focuses on Merlin.
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seldon
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response 10 of 36:
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Feb 1 07:30 UTC 1993 |
Yep.
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jason242
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response 11 of 36:
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Apr 7 18:52 UTC 1994 |
All hail Bill Gibson
All hail Bill Gibson
All hail Bill Gibson
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young
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response 12 of 36:
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Jun 8 23:40 UTC 1994 |
Aujourdhui, maman est morte. Ou peut-etre hier, je ne sais pas.
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kami
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response 13 of 36:
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Jun 9 01:03 UTC 1994 |
And tomorrow she'll be alive again? Where'd you get this line, anyway?
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fuz
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response 14 of 36:
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Jun 9 01:51 UTC 1994 |
Once upon a time there was a martian named valentine Michael Smith.
The first human expidition to mars was selected on the theory that the greatest
danger to man was man himself. At that time, eight terran years after the
founding on the first human coliny on Luna, an interplanetary trip made by
humans had to be made in free-fall orbits-- from terra to mars, two
hundred-fifty-eight Terran days, the same for return, plus four hundred
fifty-five days waiting at mars while the planets crawled back into the
positions for the return orbit. Only by refueling at a space station could evoy
make the trip. Once at mars she might return-- if she did not crash, if water
could be found to fill her raction tanks, if a thousnd things did not go wrong.
ound in each combination. and thus the scene was set for RAH's Stranger in A
Strange Land
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aruba
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response 15 of 36:
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Jun 9 03:46 UTC 1994 |
Listen:
Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.
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fuz
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response 16 of 36:
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Jun 9 19:56 UTC 1994 |
some text from my favorite opener were lost, but the first sentence is the
important one.
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curby
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response 17 of 36:
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Jun 14 02:42 UTC 1994 |
I just moved, so I had a chance to go thru the twenty odd boxes of books
that I have laying around. When I got to the new apartment, I pulled a
couple of my favorite books that I want to reread. These are three that I
think have great openings.
"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."
-Stephen King, _THE DARK TOWER: The Gunslinger_
"Irene hadn't always been dead."
-George Alec Effinger. _Heroics_
"Chiriga's night club has right in the middle of the Budayeen, eight
blocks from the eastern gate, eight blocks from the cemetery."
-George Alec Effinger, _When gravity Fails_
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young
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response 18 of 36:
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Jun 23 22:12 UTC 1994 |
My quote was from _L'Etranger_ by Albert Camus
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val
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response 19 of 36:
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Jan 18 01:18 UTC 1995 |
I love opening quotes. Here are two i found on the spur of the moment:
"In its last days, the Republic must have strangled itself to
death on paper" from Eldrie the Healer by Claudia J. Edwards
sorry just one. i just liked it.
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kami
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response 20 of 36:
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Feb 4 07:18 UTC 1995 |
Gaaaaaar! I think I'm living with the strangler of the Republic!
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val
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response 21 of 36:
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Feb 6 01:28 UTC 1995 |
problems kami? :)
is the paperwork getting to you?
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kami
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response 22 of 36:
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Feb 7 04:20 UTC 1995 |
no, not muhc....I just ended up going to Brighton and then nearly to Detroit
to pick up a copier in Novi, because my bloody directions weren't clear
enough, and all I could think of was the work waiting at home...
Sigh!
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matthew
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response 23 of 36:
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Feb 15 22:59 UTC 1995 |
"Marley was dead, to begin with."
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gregc
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response 24 of 36:
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Feb 15 23:15 UTC 1995 |
Sounds like Dicken's _A Christmas Carol_.
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phreakus
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response 25 of 36:
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Feb 22 18:57 UTC 1995 |
How abot this one: A beginning is a time to make sure the balances are correct
or something like that.
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slandis
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response 26 of 36:
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Feb 22 21:35 UTC 1995 |
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the western spiral arm of the
galaxy, lies an unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this sun at a difference of
roughly 93 million miles was an utterly insignificnt blue-green planet.
This planet was so amazinglyh primitive that those who inhabited it
still thought digital watcches were a pretty neat idea.. This planet,
has, or rather had a problem, which was this, the majority of the
people who inahbited it were miserale.
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tryxilit
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response 27 of 36:
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Feb 23 08:06 UTC 1995 |
Re #26: I hope we weren't s'possed to spend ages figgering out where that
came from Shawn..*chuckles*
Ok...my fav opening line at the moment is very short and sweet...:
'Feet.'
Thats it.. :)
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matthew
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response 28 of 36:
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Feb 23 20:44 UTC 1995 |
A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances a
the balances are correct.
Not necesarily a favorite openin line, but I thought it was a good one.
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slandis
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response 29 of 36:
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Feb 25 18:45 UTC 1995 |
No, it SHOULD be obvious....
As should this one....
The Galactic Empire had existed for nearly 30,000 years...
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kami
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response 30 of 36:
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Mar 3 05:05 UTC 1995 |
matthew, that sounds neat. where does it come from?
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matthew
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response 31 of 36:
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Mar 3 17:59 UTC 1995 |
It's from the opening 'quote' in the first chapter of Dune.
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kami
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response 32 of 36:
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Mar 3 19:08 UTC 1995 |
ah, I should go back and re-read that.
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