first line game

[MadGastronomer]

Correct on both!  You owe us two new first lines!
I'm somewhat surprised to find anyone I don't already know who's read Palimpsest, even though I know Cat saw some really good sale for it.  Welcome!

[peneli]

You don't know me, but we seem to end up on the same places in the internet a lot. I just tend to lurk, but I know I've seen you over at slacktivist too. As for Palimpsest, like I said, haven't read it, just heard the author do a reading, need to get a copy. I go to Salon Con every year, where she's always Author-in-Residence.

Do we know what number first line we're on? Because I can't figure that out. 

"He stands like a statue, perfect in arrogance."

"There were prodigies and portents enough, One-Eye says."

[MadGastronomer]

Looks like those are 74 and 75.  You can always find the lists on the wiki, which I am currently much too groggy to update with your additions.

Well, you should read it.  It's well worth it.  A number of you should.  Warning: Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente is sometimes about bees, trains, locks, monsters, dead people, maps which mysteriously appear on the skin, and a sexually transmitted city, but when you get to the end of the book, it will turn out not to have been about what you thought it was about.  As soon as I get my copy back from loaning out, I'm going to have to reread it, to reexamine everything in light of that.  Anybody interested in a free sample can read the original short story here.  There is also a soundtrack for the book, Quartered by SJ Tucker, which is available in its current form for download, but is actually still in progress.  Cat, SJ and a crew of people unlikely enough to be characters in a novel themselves are currently on the West Coast leg of a tour for the novel and album, and you can find their schedule here.  SJ is a friend of mine, and Cat is pretty darned awesome, too, so I feel like I should plug this good and hard.

[Elizabeth Bear]

I feel like I should plug this good and hard.

So to speak.

(Seriously. I have not read all of <i>Palimpsest</i>, but I read and blurbed the original story. It's excellent work.)

[AndrewJ]

You don't know me, but we seem to end up on the same places in the internet a lot. I just tend to lurk, but I know I've seen you over at slacktivist too. As for Palimpsest, like I said, haven't read it, just heard the author do a reading, need to get a copy. I go to Salon Con every year, where she's always Author-in-Residence.

Do we know what number first line we're on? Because I can't figure that out. 

"He stands like a statue, perfect in arrogance."

"There were prodigies and portents enough, One-Eye says."

I don't know the first line, but the second is from The Black Company, by Glen Cook.