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minus-square_stranger_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up37·24 天前Well, not the first line per se, but the first chapter of Snowcrash is easily one of my favorites ever. If I had to pick an opening like though, it would be: “In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit.”
minus-squaresunbytes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·24 天前If it’s not already trivia you know, apparently Tolkien just wrote that line on a piece of paper one day and just built the story around it. Hopefully it’s not apocryphal.
minus-square_stranger_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·24 天前That’s cool, I hope it’s true 😆 I heard he basically told the story to his kids and formalized it later, but either way that’s a great origin.
minus-squareRememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·24 天前Snow Crash really has fallen off the radar. Really ignited my interest in cyberpunk when I read it 30+ years ago.
minus-square_stranger_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·23 天前It’s terrifying how familiar a lot of his world feels nowadays.
minus-squareRememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·23 天前Yeah, absolutely. That and Jennifer Government. We’re getting all the shitty dystopian aspects of cyberpunk without all the cool technological advances.
Well, not the first line per se, but the first chapter of Snowcrash is easily one of my favorites ever.
If I had to pick an opening like though, it would be:
“In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit.”
If it’s not already trivia you know, apparently Tolkien just wrote that line on a piece of paper one day and just built the story around it.
Hopefully it’s not apocryphal.
That’s cool, I hope it’s true 😆 I heard he basically told the story to his kids and formalized it later, but either way that’s a great origin.
Snow Crash really has fallen off the radar. Really ignited my interest in cyberpunk when I read it 30+ years ago.
It’s terrifying how familiar a lot of his world feels nowadays.
Yeah, absolutely. That and Jennifer Government. We’re getting all the shitty dystopian aspects of cyberpunk without all the cool technological advances.