Most, if not all, UFies are avid readers of SF, Fantasy and the likes.
The blurb on the back of the book, the first sentence is what draws you in as a reader.
How well do you know the way an author writes? Can you figure out by just reading
a few sentences from a story, who the author is?
Here's your chance ...
Below are four lists, all in alphabetical order. See if you can link the author
with the right story, and the right sentences to each story, as well.
Feel free to try Googling for it. (Like I can stop you ...)
Have fun.
Answers will follow later this weekend.
Author
Piers Anthony
Robert Bloch
Arthur C Clarke
Roald Dahl
Harry Harrison
Stephen Leacock
Stanislaw Lem
Terry Pratchett
Robert Sheckley
Kurt Vonnegut Jr
Title
A good shellacking
Ah Sweet Mystery of life
Harrison Bergeron
No morning after
Possible to Rue
Specialist
The golden years of the Stainless Steel Rat
The man in asbestos
The shrink and the mink
Turntables of the Night
First Sentence
Angela was adorable.
'But this is terrible!' said the Supreme Scientist.
'I want a Pegasus Daddy,' Junior greeted him at the door, his curly blond head bobbling with excitement.
Look, constable, what I don't understand is, surely he wouldn't be into blues?
Someone was knocking at the door of Klapaucius the constructor.
The other day, when this Magazine invited me to write a short piece on more or less any subject, I declined.
The photon storm struck without warning, pouncing under the Ship from behind a bank of giant red stars.
The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal.
To begin with let me admit that I did it on purpose.
'Well if it isn't Dirty Old Jim diGriz!'
Last Sentence
And there wasn't a fourth day, of course.
As a matter of fact, she didn't really become frigid until almost three months later . . .
'Gee -' said Hazel, 'I could tell that one was a doozy.'
He too had been working on a Machine to Grant Your Every Wish, only Trurl had beaten him to it.
I came.
I put my arm around her waist and this time it was I who had the tear in my eye.
I'll mind how I go.
It continued to accelerate.
Newton reached for Possible to Rue.
'Right,' I said, 'you're absolutely right.'
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