"Lessa woke, cold."----from < is a great opening line. You just know with something that short, yet active, that the story's going places quick.
Another one of my favorite opening lines is from an old, obscure Original Star Trek novel by Diane Duane, titled The Wounded Sky. When a story begins like this, you know it's headed someplace very strange:
"The problem with waiting around in space to see a starship go by is that, when a ship is in warp drive, she's hardly there at all."
Of course, though, there's what may possibly be the greatest opening line of any book ever written:
"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit."
If you need that referenced, I will hunt you down and smack you with a fish!
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Date: 2008-07-01 12:53 pm (UTC)Another one of my favorite opening lines is from an old, obscure Original Star Trek novel by Diane Duane, titled The Wounded Sky. When a story begins like this, you know it's headed someplace very strange:
"The problem with waiting around in space to see a starship go by is that, when a ship is in warp drive, she's hardly there at all."
Of course, though, there's what may possibly be the greatest opening line of any book ever written:
"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit."
If you need that referenced, I will hunt you down and smack you with a fish!