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1. Which work by Diana Wynne-Jones starts with the line
"Have you heard of the Flying Dutchman? No? Nor of the Wandering Jew? Well it doesn't matter."?
2. Which Anne McCaffrey book opens with the line
"Torrents of rain covered the western side of the great Tranh mountain range of Altair, streaming in muddy runnels down slopes already saturated with nine straight days of precipitation."?
3. Which science fiction classic opens with the line
"Dr Strauss says I shoud rite down what I think and remembir and evrey thing that happins to me from now on." (sic)
4. "The reeds scarcely moved as the animals wound their way through them." is the first line of which classic dystopian novel?
5. Which Andre Norton novel begins with the lines
"The city was very large. When Kristie had been one of the very Littles, she used to make herself dizzy by lying on her back and looking up."
6. "Today we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man." is the opening line of which novel?
7. Which classic science fiction novel opens with the line
"Like a radar echo bounding from a distant object and returning to its source, the sound of Roy Complain's beating heart seemed to him to fill the clearing."?
8. Which book by Mike Resnick opens with the line
"'This place looks pretty full,' remarked Thaddeus Flint to the brightly clad, undersized hunchback standing next to him."?
9. The following is the first line of the "Prodrome" of a science fiction novel by John Christopher. Which one?
"As sometimes happens, death healed a family breach."
10. Which Young Adult book by Alan Garner begins with the line
"The guard knocked on the door of the compartment as he went past."
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