As part of the show that my puppet company is taking to WorldCon, we promised that we’d create a new piece specifically for the event. For that, we need a little input. We need your favorite lines from science-fiction, fantasy and the related genres. No promises that we’ll use all of them, but we need a good sampling.
So, here’s a form you can fill out to tell us your favorite line of dialogue or narration.
What will we do with them? Imagine a scene constructed entirely out of the lines you love.
If you want to see what other people are suggesting, you can see the list online. Oh, and just because someone else has suggested a line, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t suggest it, too. Nothing wrong with knowing a line is popular.
“Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice; if not whether, then how, they may endure.”
Good line. Would you add it to the form?
I keep coming back to my all-time favorite:
“It was a pleasure to burn.” — Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
just added this one to your form from Johannes Cabal The Detective, which i am currently reading and made me laugh out loud, which is rare. in the scene he has just ordered a steak which has arrived
“He’d asked for his to be cooked medium rare, which in Mirkarvian cuisine meant it had been shown a picture of an oven for a moment and then served.”
“Katy drives like a maniac” Joanna Russ, “When It Changed”
Your challenge now will be to figure out which one is mine. Bwahahahaha!
The grave is no bar to my call.
What’s it from?
It’s from the Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. It’s the saying that’s on the Horn of Valere, which calls back the heroes from their graves 🙂
In the old Tongue it’s : Tia mi aven moridin isainde vadin.
“I would not mind you in my head if you were not so clearly mad” Lews Therin to Rand al’Thor in the Wheel of Time (yeah ol’ Lews is the crazy one in Rand’s head)
Submitted dialogue. Pretty sure you’ll be able to guess which one is mine.
“He’s dead, Jim”
“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way as bricks don’t.”
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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