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What other great opening lines do you know?. (infosec.pub)

submitted 2 days ago by BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] elvith@feddit.org 40 points 2 days ago (8 children)

I absolutely love the opening of The Martian by Andy Weir

I’m pretty much fucked. That’s my considered opinion. Fucked. Six days into what should be one of the greatest two months of my life, and it’s turned into a nightmare. I don’t even know who’ll read this. I guess someone will find it eventually. Maybe a hundred years from now. For the record…I didn’t die on Sol 6. Certainly the rest of the crew thought I did, and I can’t blame them. Maybe there’ll be a day of national mourning for me, and my Wikipedia page will say, “Mark Watney is the only human being to have died on Mars.”

[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 13 points 2 days ago (6 children)

I just reread that and Project Hail Mary, because I finally read Artemis and needed more Andy Weir. That man tickles exactly the right part of my brain.

Now I’m onto the Bobiverse series and loving it.

[–] elvith@feddit.org 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I did that on a slightly different order, yes. But those are other books I'd recommend after reading the Martian.

It's a bit different, but do you know the short story "The Egg" of Andy Weir?

[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No! I saw it listed somewhere but I didn’t read it. Is it good?

[–] elvith@feddit.org 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Very short and available online, so... Take 5 mins and see for yourself:

https://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html

Kurzgesagt also made a short animation "movie" for it: https://youtu.be/h6fcK_fRYaI

[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 2 points 16 hours ago

That’s beautiful.

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