I saw this game one Tor.com and I thought it would be fun to start it here (because I don't know any of the lines they are doing over there). I'll start by listing 10 first lines from various sci-fi or fantasy books. If you know the book it is from, then you post giving the quote, book title, and author. You can then offer another first line for someone else to guess. And please, don't look up the lines on the internet unless you absolutely have to because it is more fun this way. Also, try not to be too obscure.
"I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army."
"The day war was declared, a rain of telephones fell clattering to the cobblestones from the skies above Novy Petrograd."
"Prince Raoden of Arelon awoke early that morning, completely unaware that he had been damned for all eternity."
"The palace still shook occasionally as the earth rumbled in memory, groaned as if it would deny what had happened."
" "Lot ninety-seven," the auctioneer announced. "A boy." "
"This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it."
"My father had a face that could stop a clock. I don't mean that he was ugly or anything; it was a phrase the ChronoGuard used to describe someone who had the power to reduce time to an ultraslow trickle."
"Venice, California, in the old days had much to recommend it to people who liked to be sad."
"The worst thing about knowing that Gary Fairchild had been dead for a month was seeing him every day at work."
"When I was eight, my mother lost me to zombies in a one-card draw."