reading - Lynette M. Burrows

First Lines Fighting for Freedom

For this month’s first lines post here are older books that are about fighting for liberty. Is there one or two you want to read?

The first line of a story, we’re told, must hook the reader. Ambivalent about reading LBGTQ+ fiction? If the first line hooks you, read it.

Today’s Story Time, Reviews Entanglement, a story with a fascinating “what if” question in the first line. Can someone survive inside a black hole?

For this episode of Story Time Reviews, Lynette reviews the story, the author, and the voice talent of “Glow Worm.”

From Martin R. Delany to Nnedi Okorafor these are first lines from fantasy and science fiction stories by black authors from the 1800s to today.