Most of these I can do no better than a completely wild stab in the dark at the bleeding obvious (e.g. #2 is some form of sci-fi). However, the ones actually worth typing in:
4a) 19...gah..50-ish? ISTR that it's post-WW2. 4b) It's a near-future dystopian novel. 4c)It's Nineteen Eighty-Four (specifically, it's Emmanuel Goldstein's book within 1984). 4d) Eric Blair (Orwell) was shot through the throat during the war. He knew that he was going to live because the pain got more intense, rather than numb.
5: OH GOD THE RAMBLING SENTENCES MAKE IT STOP. People who write descriptive paragraphs like object serialisations should be beaten with Pratchett novels until they repent.
6: I would guess that this is a Sherlock Holmes Victorian crime thriller, although it's possible that it's just following the archetypal style.
7: Needs more hard-boiled private detective.
8: Odd. Do not recognize, yet seems familiar. I'd guess at 1950-ish.
10: Hazard a guess at cyberpunk, light on the punk.
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Date: 2008-02-25 11:02 pm (UTC)4a) 19...gah..50-ish? ISTR that it's post-WW2.
4b) It's a near-future dystopian novel.
4c)It's Nineteen Eighty-Four (specifically, it's Emmanuel Goldstein's book within 1984).
4d) Eric Blair (Orwell) was shot through the throat during the war. He knew that he was going to live because the pain got more intense, rather than numb.
5: OH GOD THE RAMBLING SENTENCES MAKE IT STOP. People who write descriptive paragraphs like object serialisations should be beaten with Pratchett novels until they repent.
6: I would guess that this is a Sherlock Holmes Victorian crime thriller, although it's possible that it's just following the archetypal style.
7: Needs more hard-boiled private detective.
8: Odd. Do not recognize, yet seems familiar. I'd guess at 1950-ish.
10: Hazard a guess at cyberpunk, light on the punk.