some opening lines...

[adelaidesean]

...in approximate order of release. Why? I was curious to see if they created their own little narrative. They don't, but I thought I'd post them here anyway. A list of the second lines, below, turns out to be a lot more interesting.

First Lines

The life of Darth Vader's secret student took a strange and deadly turn the day his master first spoke of General Rahm Kota. (The Force Unleashed)

Ros drew the camel to a halt as a pair of very strange contraptions crested the next dune along from his. (The Dust Devils)

It is difficult to measure the time since my last communication. ("A Glimpse of the Marvellous Structure (and the Threat It Entails)")

Somewhere between Chemaly and Smerdon, Ros suspected they had become lost. (The Scarecrow)

The sky changed no less than three times on the way to the detective's office. (The Grand Conjunction)

The prisoner was both young and male, which suited Master Bannerman perfectly well. ("The Inevitable")

On the twenty-third day of his quest, the young man detected crabbler spoor. ("Ungentle Fire")

Second lines:

He had had no warning that a moment of such significance was approaching.

It wasn't immediately obviously if they were machine or beast or a weird merger of the two.

Too much has passed, I fear, for the suspicion of my demise not to have become a certainty in some minds.

Adi, as always, disagreed.

First, on stepping out the front door of the Iceberg building, a line of bright blue stars swayed erratically across the sky, casting sprays of sharply defined shadows down the length of Rammas Street.

She had encountered his type before--headstrong, shallow, visceral--and refined numerous techniques for extracting what she needed.

Swinging the reins of his mechanical steed sharply to the left, he parked in the shade of the yellow canyon wall and lightly hopped to the ground.

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Listening to: Altus - A Different Universe

Comments

[nevryn.livejournal.com]

You could start some sort of secret story using just the second lines of your novels. Cordwainer Smith style secret messages!

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

That's a great idea! And very tempting...

[maelorin]

fun. but a little slow, no?

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Something for the academics to discover in a hundred years. :-)

Or maybe I could do it with blog posts. You'll know I'm up to something when they start reading like:

"Well, today was a great day. When the sun exploded, it took everyone with it. But apart from that..."

[nevryn.livejournal.com]

Imagine the suspense!

[maelorin]

indeed :D

[maelorin]

lol ^_^

or just do a retro job, like they do on the bible :p

imagine all the cool stuff you've hidden away in your old manuscripts lol

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Haha! That's a great thought. To think I predicted Sarah Palin way back in 1992!

[maelorin]

lol ^_^