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Professor Literati?s Sci-Fi Roulette Challenge

Welcome gentle beings to the Science Fiction Roulette Challenge. Posting a number between 1 and 21 will afford you the first line from a Science Fiction novel. These lines will be supplied to you by PM.

From there, I invite your muse to guide you to whatever genre, length and timeframe you desire. Just remember to use this first line as the first line in your Star Wars fanfic story.

Slots will be filled on a first come-first serve basis. Please remember to post a link in this thread to your story and list Professor_Literati?s Sci-Fi Roulette Challenge in the Author?s notes section.

We will be using the following outline for these stories:

Title:
Author(s):
Timeframe:
Characters:
Genre:
Summary:
Notes:

Questions may be rendered here as needed. Good luck and thank you for your consideration.

Professor_Literati

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[i]?When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.? ~Enrique Jardiel Poncela[/i]
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All positions have been filled:

1. DarthIshtar
2. mavjade
3. RX_Sith
4. thesporkbewithyou
5. LilyHobbitJedi
6. Valairy_Scot
7. Jedi-Ant
8. divapilot
9. Alexis_Wingstar
10. DaenaBenjen42
11. VaderLVR
12. Golden_Jedi
13. zonzo
14. Ceillean
15. Myriad_Daydreams
16. Art_Of_War
17. MarasFire
18. Idrelle Miocovani
19. furrylittlebantha
20. Stroja
21. earlybird-obi-wan

 

Before the Saga

Title: Eight Silent Ways to Kill a Jedi
Author: RX_Sith
Characters: Darth Plagueis, Sith Apprentice Sidious
Summary: What will Darth Plagueis teach his star pupil in the eight silent ways of killing a Jedi?
Notes: You have selected #3 from Joe Haldeman's The Forever War: "Today we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man.?


Title: The Shortcut
Author: VaderLVR64
Characters: Sian Ny (OC)
Summary: Sian thought he was taking the easy way out.
Notes: My first line was: "He should never have taken that shortcut." Michael Crichton, Timeline

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[color=blue]The Saga[/color]

Title: [link=http://boards.theforce.net/Message.aspx?topic=28648552&brd=10476&replies=0]The Hunter?s Tale[/link]
Author: Divapilot
Rating: PG
Character: Shaak Ti
Time frame: Revenge of the Sith
Genre: angst
Summary: Master Shaak Ti, shocked by the unbelievable events she has witnessed, tries to relate the massacre at the Jedi Temple to her own experiences as a hunter.
Author?s note: The quote is the first line of Ursula K LeGuin's Left Hand of Darkness: I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination.


Title: [link=http://boards.theforce.net/Message.aspx?topic=28627819&brd=10476&replies=0]Pleasure to Burn[/link]
Author: DaenaBenjen42
Timeframe: that period of time between AOTC and ROTS
Character: Un-named Clone Trooper
Genre: introspection (if that's a genre...)
Summary: A clone trooper has a moment to himself.
Notes: I chose prompt #10: "It was a pleasure to burn." (Farenheit 451, Ray Bradbury)


Title:[link=http://boards.theforce.net/Message.aspx?topic=28686496&brd=10476]The Rookie[/link]
Author: Earlybird-obi-wan
Timeframe: ROTS-ROTJ
Characters: my OC Ben Henny from USJS.
Genre: vignette
Keywords: fireships
Summary: Events during ROTS change a young firefighter.
Disclaimer: Lucas = Star Wars
The quote I got was from David Gerrold's The Middle of Nowhere: The rookie had arrived at Stardock so recently, his eyebrows still hadn't had time to come back down to their normal position.


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[color=red]Beyond the Saga[/color]

Title: [link=http://boards.theforce.net/Message.aspx?topic=28642385&brd=10477]Once I got lost[/link]
Author: Ceillean
Timeframe: after LotF
Characters: OC
Genre: Drama
Summary: A Jedi deals with the dark
Notes: My first line was "Once I got lost in my own house" -- Neil Gaiman's Interworld


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Give me #11 please.

 

#18 for me!

 

I'll take #5.

 

#3 please.

 

Could I have #2 please?

 

13, all the way.

 

I'll take #12 before it goes away...





Is there a deadline for this?

 

No deadline, gentle being.

 

I'll take a nibble of #9, please.

 

Can I have #1?

 

How about number 8 for me? Thanks!

 

# 7, thanks!

 

#17 for me, please!

 

Can I have #10, please?

 

I'll take #20 please!

 

# 15 please

 

Numero quatro (er ... 4 ...) for me! Interesting idea for a challange.

 

I'll take #19!

 

#16 for me please.

 

6 please

 

Pleasure to Burn


Here is my response.

 

Number 14 please? If it's not already taken.

 

If there's no deadline (next year ok? I can't write on a deadline) I'll take the last remaining number - 6, I believe.