The First Sentence Reader

Clarke, Arthur C .  The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke . New York: Tom Doherty Associates. 2000 . Print. First Sentences: But what is...

Lem, Stanislaw. The Invincible . London: Sidgwick & Jackson 1973 . Print. First Sentences: The Invincible moved acros...

Walsh, M.O . The Big Door Prize . New York: Putnam 2020 . Print. First Sentences: How can you know that your whole life will change on a day...

Winters, Ben H.  Golden State . New York: Little, Brown 2019 . Print. First Sentences: Somebody's telling lies in here, a...

Smith, Tom Rob .   Cold People . New York: Scribner 2023 . Print. First Sentences: Looking up at the night sky Ui saw only unfamiliar stars....

North, Claire .  The First 15 Lives of Harry August . New York: Knopf 2021 . Print . First Sentences: The second cataclysm began in my eleve...

Weir, Andy.  Project Hail Mary . New York: Ballantine 2021 . Print First Sentences: " What's twp plus two? Some...

Crouch, Blake.  Recursion . New York: Crown 2019. Print First Sentences: Barry Sutton pulls over into the fire lane at the ...

Bisson, Terry. Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories . New York: Tor 1993 . Print First Sentences: I was driving with my brothe...

Chiang, Ted.  Exhalation: Stories . New York: Knopf 2019 . Print First Sentences: The story I have to tell is truly a str...