Mar 6, 2007 4:46 AM

Ten Sentences From Third-Rate Sci-Fi

I’m sorry, this top 10 list of supposed bad lines from third rate science fiction stories contains way too many deliciously clever lines to be taken seriously. Bad writers simply can’t write this well. I lived on the land, she lived in the water. It gave shore leave a whole new meaning. Or the same […]

I'm sorry, this top 10 list of supposed bad lines from third rate science fiction stories contains way too many deliciously clever lines to be taken seriously. Bad writers simply can't write this well.

I lived on the land, she lived in the water. It gave shore leave a whole new meaning. Or the same old meaning, except with bigger crabs.

or....

Snarp wasn’t sure just *what* he was looking at; it seemed humanoid, though the features and limbs were laid out in strangely peculiar ways. No matter, he was pretty sure he could still have sex with it.

That last one is the ToM's ethos, by the way, but Wired wouldn't let us put it on the Wired Blogs main page.

Top 10 Sentences From Third-Rate SF Stories [Little Fivers]

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