To begin at the beginning
Westerblog, the blog of honorary Australian Scott Westerfeld, has alerted us to a post on the io9 scifi blog. Great Opening Sentences from Science Fiction analyses some effective opening lines (yes, Scott gets a mention for The Risen Empire, although he takes issue with the analysis in his own blog and goes on to provide all his own YA novel first lines).
English teachers and TLs doing literature promotion could have some fun running with this idea.
