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[ISBW] First Sentences
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S19 Ep2
Recorded January 12, 2023
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- Team Rejection 2023 Count: 16
Main Topic: First Sentences
Examining what makes first sentences work
- The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
- The Stand by Stephen King
- The Gunslinger by Stephen King
- This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
- A Murder of Crows by Sarah Yarwood-Lovett
- The Mirror Empire by Kameron Hurley
- The Annual Migration of Clouds by Premee Mohamed
- Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
- An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten
- Thirteen at Dinner by Agatha Christie
- Not Your Average Hot Guy by Gwenda Bond
- Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
- Or What You Will by Jo Walton
- Very Good, Jeeves! by P. G. Wodehouse
- A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers
- King of the Dogs, Queen of the Cats by James Patrick Kelly
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman
- Fault Tolerance by Valerie Valdes
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