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I Like To Do It. Words and music by Byron Gay ("composer of The Vamp!"), 1920.
"If I say this beach is safe to surf, it's safe to surf!"
Surf Pack Assassins. Male, August 1967. Cover by Earl Norem.
It's not a proper heatwave if there aren't millions of ladybirds suddenly appearing...
TRON is an analogue rendering of a digital future. Disney took a risk and put its best minds to it, took the concept seriously and built an immersive sense of a future world that really sticks in the mind. It still looks way cool today: the Meta World brought to life.
Today in pulp: the searing, evocative power of a well crafted opening sentence!
For this thread I will draw my examples from the greatest writer* in the English language: the Reverend Lionel Fanthorpe.
(*based on synonym use)
The Roads Of Heaven, by Melissa Scott. Doubleday, 1988. Cover by Ron Walotsky.
Who's laughing now? House Of Dark Laughter, by Melissa Napier. Avon Gothic Original, 1972.
The Reality Trip, by Robert Silverberg. Ballantine, 1972. Cover by Chris Foss.
To Ride Pegasus, by Anne McCaffrey. Ballantine, 1973. Cover by Gene Szafran.