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Violanthe
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PostCarnival by Elizabeth Bear

Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 11:01 am
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How does this opener strike you?

MICHELANGELO OSIRIS LEARY KUSANAGI-JONES HAD BEEN drinking since fourteen hundred. He didn't plan on stopping soon.

He occupied a bubbleport on the current observation deck of Kaiwo Maru, where he had been since he started drinking, watching a yellow main-sequence star grow. The sun had the look of a dancer swirling in veils, a Van Gogh starscape. Eons before, it had blundered into a cloud of interstellar gas and was still devouring the remains. Persistent tatters glowed orange and blue against a backdrop of stars, a vast, doomed display of color and light. Kusanagi-Jones could glimpse part of the clean-swept elliptical path that marked the orbit of New Amazonia: a darker streak like a worm tunnel in a leaf.



If you've never read this book, or had no clue where the opener comes from, then how does it strike you? If you had only this opener to go on, would you read more? Does it grab you and spur you to read on? Or does it leave you unenthusiastic?

If you read the book it came from, did you remember right away or did you have to look it up? What made it so memorable - or not so memorable?
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Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 12:59 pm
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I like it. Have no idea where it's from or who wrote it, but it works for me.

Sci-fi can be very good sometimes, and while I don't know if this is one of those, I'd be willing to atleast read the rest of the page.
Will check this one out.
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Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 12:19 pm
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Is the opener interesting enough to inspire you to google the opening line?
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Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 3:51 pm
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Well I googled it. I think it is Carnival by Elizabeth Bear. She sounds interesting, almost as depressing as Alistair Reynolds. I will keep her in mind.
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Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 10:47 am
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It is. I've never read anything by her before. Would people recommend her?
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