Neuromancer is probably the third most famous, after “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
This was the one that came to mind for me. Then again, I don't even recognize the other suggestions. Except:
I was also thinking "It was a pleasure to burn."
This was a Trivia Night question one night, and it pissed me off that I couldn't remember it, since I'd read the damn book. Way back in junior high, but still.
I've read
War of the Worlds,
too.
"In the week before their departure to Arrakis"
What's that,
Dune
?
" It is the colour of a bleached skull, his flesh; and the long hair which flows below his shoulders is milk-white."
No clue.
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
I don't know this one.
It was a pleasure to burn.
But this must be
Fahrenheit 451,
right? I don't know what I'd nominate for the title, but I'm still largely unversed in classic SF.
Oh, right. I read
1984
probably ten years ago.
No clue.
Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné if I'm not mistaken.
Wow. I haven't even
heard
of that.
He's the famousest albino.
I thought that was the guy with the wheelbarrow in
The Princess Bride.
Paleface-come-lately, him.
Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné if I'm not mistaken.
Yup, the Melvinbone. Pretty influential stuff. There's also that "O, Prince" line that starts off Conan the Barbarian.
