How to Be an Incipit
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How to Be an Incipit
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Re: How to Be an Incipit
#2A few more:
"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
Neuromancer, William Gibson
"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."
Dune, Frank Herbert
Re: How to Be an Incipit
#3Related – “What Makes a Great Opening Line?”[1], discussed here[2].
Re: How to Be an Incipit
#4A few more: "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” Neuromancer, William Gibson "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." Dune, Frank Herbert
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#5A few more: "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” Neuromancer, William Gibson "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." Dune, Frank Herbert
"The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason."
Seveneves, Neal StephensonRe: How to Be an Incipit
#6Another:
"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
Re: How to Be an Incipit
#7“It was a nice day.”
Neil Gaiman,Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch