Oh, yeah, the book meme...

[daibhidc]

You're probably wanting the answers, aren't you?

1. The sun was still burning the early morning fog off Metropolis Harbour, but it was clearly going to be a beautiful day.

The Death and Life of Superman by Roger Stern.

2. It came crackling over the hills like an invisible fog. Movement without a body tired it, and it drifted very slowly.

Hat Full Of Sky by Terry Pratchett. Got by shriker_tam

3. Enoch rounds the corner just as the executioner raises the noose above the woman's head.

Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson.

4.The day war was declared, a rain of telephones fell clattering to the cobblestones from the skies above Novy Petrograd.

Singularity Sky by Charles Stross. Got by vatine

5. When I was fourteen I started a notebook. A maths notebook.

Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities by Ian Stewart.

6. The flotillas of the dead sailed around the world on underwater rivers.

Going Postal by Terry Pratchett. Got by sabremeister

7. "Death has no name."

Doctor Who New Adventures: Night of the Living Dad by Kate Orman.

8. To my esteemed and most worthy patronne, My Lady Charlotte de la Bagatelle, From her most humble and devoted servant N.F. Stovold Esq. Upon receiving the intelligence that you have again grown weary of those poor passtimes indulged at court, and are taking no relish in Durts nor Ballyards, nor yet desiring to turn your dainty hand to Whisk, nor to abandon yourself to the pleasures of the Poker, nor neither the 'modern' sports of Monotony and Trivial Par-Suite, I was cast into a desperation of spirit.

Stovold's Mornington Crescent Almanac 2002 by Graeme Garden. Got by sabremeister

9. I spend a lot of time talking to people who disagree with me - I would go so far as to say that it's my favourite leisure activity - and repeatedly I meet individuals who are eager to share their view on science despite the fact they have never done an experiment.

Bad Science by Ben Goldacre.

10. It was half past 10, pitch black, and raining like bloody hell.

Family Bites by Lisa Williams.
(I am surprised no-one got this one...)

Two Discworld novels, two spin-offs from sf in other media, seven sf in all. One comedy book. Two non-fiction science books, one by an author I got into due to his Discworld connections.

Maybe my reading habits are a bit narrow...

Comments

[sabremeister]

I knew I recognised 2 and 10 from somewhere. Blame the long interval since reading them.

[shriker-tam.livejournal.com]

10. It was half past 10, pitch black, and raining like bloody hell.

Family Bites by Lisa Williams.

Oh that's what that was. It was driving me crazy, because I knew I recognized it, but couldn't figure it out. For a while I was certain it was Good Omens, but then I checked, and it's almost exactly the opposite...so no such luck.

[thisbluespirit]

I looked at your meme and couldn't guess any, but at the time I did, 2 was unguessed and I knew it must be Terry Pratchett. I even went and looked at some of them on my bookshelf, and thought it must be The Wee Free Men or something. Not that I can prove it, or anything...

[silly-swordsman.livejournal.com]

Ah. 2 felt like Pterry, but I could only think of Thud! for some reason, and that wasn't right. 3 nagged at me, but I couldn't pinpoint it either, even though I recall I liked it as an opening line.

Of course, I never did get around to finishing Quicksilver. He's just got too much he wants to say.