An attention-grabbing first line


December 19th, 2006 - 00:02 | 2 comments

I was listening to Escape Pod while driving home this evening. It’s a short science-fiction podcast, and the story was ‘Margin of Error‘. It began with:

Paula came back in a blaze of glory.

Isn’t that a wonderful first line? There are so many possibilities, especially with sci-fi premises. It immediately grabbed my attention, although my mind was buzzing so much from tonight’s practice dance session that I couldn’t concentrate, so I switched to music after a couple of minutes. This was entirely to do with me and no reflection on the story! It started very well, and I’ll look forward to hearing the rest :-)

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2 Responses to “An attention-grabbing first line” 

  1. Gravatar Icon 1 Skuds 

    Doesn’t sound that good to me. Mind you, the yardstick I compare all first lines against is Iain Banks’ Crow Road and nothing comes close to that!

  2. Gravatar Icon 2 Andrew 

    Just looked it up, and have to agree :-)

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