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"Man," said Terl, "is an endangered species." - Battlefield Earth (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] Lurking, that lovely spring day, in the office of Dr. Chalmers, Atworthy College Medical Clinic, there might have been two small spirits of the air, pressed back into the dark shadow behind the door, avoiding as far as possible the warm sunlight which fell gently upon the rug. - Fear (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] In these days of bad and alarming literature that teaches violence and fantasy to our young, it is with pleasure that I accept the invitation to write a forward to this extravagant and overly imaginative work. - Mission Earth (Voltarian Censor's Foreword), volume 1 of a dekalogy [Books (First Lines)] Hi there! I am 54 Charlee Nine, the Robotbrain in the Translatophone, and in accordance with the Royal Publishing Code (Section 8) which states that "Any work published in a language other than the original shall be so identified in an introduction by the licensed translatophone," I am delighted to take this opportunity to give this account of how I translated Mission Earth into your language--and, quite frankly, it wasn't easy. - Mission Earth (Voltarian Translator's Preface), volume 1 of a dekalogy [Books (First Lines)]
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