Quiz answers

[daibhidc]

Since I'm sure you're all agog, here they are.

I've added a little bit of info about each book, so that those whose interest was piqued by the first lines can decide if it's stayed piqued.



1. The Book of Heroic Failures by Stephen Pile (humorous non-fiction about people who've done spectacularly badly at things)

2. Daggerspell by Katherine Kerr (Celtic fantasy)

3. Doctor Who: Wetworld by Mark Michalowski (Tenth Doctor and Martha novel, obviously)

4. GrailQuest: Den of Dragons by J. H. Brennan (fantasy roleplaying solo gamebook)

5. Secret Files of the Diogenes Club by Kim Newman ("weird fiction" short stories, with varying degrees of tongue-in-cheekness)

6. Red Dwarf VIII: The Scripts by Doug Naylor (scripts of the last season of RD, with commentary)

7. Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and the Hitch-Hiker's Guide by Neil Gaiman (quasi-biography, focussing on the HHGG phenomenon. Sorry to everyone who thought it was one of the trilogy!)

8. Newton's Wake by Ken Macleod (post-singularity SF about a family of Glasgow gangsters)

9. Doctor Who The New Adventures: The Also People by Ben Aaronovitch (Seventh Doctor novel which pays deliberate homage to Iain Banks' Culture, and has a few Discworld gags as well)

10. Star Trek The Next Generation: Imzadi by Peter David (complex multiple-timeline novel about the Troi/Riker relationship. The opening line is actually Jim Kirk, in the last scene of "City on the Edge of Forever", which may mean David is going to be sued by Harlan Ellison...)

Results:
pedanther scores 2.

Maybe I should be less random in my next book quiz...

Comments

[cat63.livejournal.com]

I've actually read the first two and still didn't spot them. I need a replacement for this sieve :-)

[daibhid-c.livejournal.com]

To be honest, looking at the questions again, I think that if someone else had put up the exact same quiz I'd have been lucky to get more than a couple of them...

[sierra-le-oli.livejournal.com]

No. 2 is a memorable opening and I've read the book...and I still didn't get it. :-)

[pedanther]

Two out of a possible three (Don't Panic is the only other one I've read) ain't bad.

Although possibly I should have guessed The Book of Heroic Failures: I haven't read it, but I have read the sequel, More Heroic Failures. (The first entry in MHF is Pile's own Not Terribly Good Club of Great Britain, founded so that ordinary people could get together to commiserate about their lack of success; following the publicity from TBOHF they received so many membership applications that they had no choice but to declare the club a roaring success, and therefore a complete and miserable failure.)

[scarfman]

I missed that they were first sentences. I might've got Imzadi otherwise.