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What’s the First Line of the First Book You’re Reading in 2023?

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Five Books With Great Opening Lines

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Collaborating with His Reader: Theodore Sturgeon’s Some of Your Blood

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How Gene Wolfe Starts a Story (and Where to Start Reading His Work)

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Five YA Books with Fabulous First Sentences

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Vivid Hopelessness: William Gibson’s Neuromancer

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Five SFF Novels with Perfect Opening Lines

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Great Opening Lines: God’s War by Kameron Hurley

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“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”

C.S. Lewis, The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader

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