[HN Gopher] How to Be an Incipit
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How to Be an Incipit
Author : magda_wang
Score : 36 points
Date : 2022-04-29 23:04 UTC (23 hours ago)
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| photochemsyn wrote:
| A few more:
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| "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a
| dead channel."
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| Neuromancer, William Gibson
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| "In the week before their departure to Arrakis, when all the
| final scurrying about had reached a nearly unbearable frenzy, an
| old crone came to visit the mother of the boy, Paul."
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| Dune, Frank Herbert
| tlb wrote:
| "The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason."
| Seveneves, Neal Stephenson
| rNULLED wrote:
| respectable choices, appropriate for orange site
| flobosg wrote:
| Related - "What Makes a Great Opening Line?"[1], discussed
| here[2].
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| [1]: https://lithub.com/what-makes-a-great-opening-line/
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| [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30631725
| goldenkey wrote:
| Another: "The clock struck twelve when a boom echoed throughout
| the olden province. The ragged clocktower rattled and creaked but
| continued to stand. Its aged wooden hands blustered with embers
| and bent into a hexed configuration, as if to say that doomsday
| had just arrived. Their country's war had just ended but their
| own war was just beginning. They had no idea." - Stefan
| Gladdusberg
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