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What other great opening lines do you know?. (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] sunbytes@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He was a big fan of the power of the first line. You can really see it in a lot of his books.

His last ever book started with

"The two craft met within the blast-shadow of the planetary fragment called Ablate, a narrow twisted scrue of rock three thousand kilometres long and shaped like the hole in a tornado."

Or maybe it's the second para. I haven't got my copy on me. But I memorised the last bit on the spot.

[โ€“] snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah I haven't read that one in a while