Can you identify the following well-known SF/Fantasy novels by their opening lines? Please provide the title and author.
-1. "Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the Farmer's wife."
-2. "The villagers of little Hangleton still called it 'the Riddle House' even though it had been many years since the Riddle family had lived there."
-3. "Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen."
-4. "When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton."
-5. "Each year, at the end of March, a great fair was held in Cria, the capital of Galla."
-6. "Lessa woke, cold. Cold with more than the chill of the everlastingly clammy stone walls."
-7. "Matthias cut a comical little figure as he wobbled his way along the cloisters, with his large sandals flip-flopping and his tail peeping from beneath the baggy folds of an oversized novice's habit." [R, by B J]
-8. "The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us."
-9. "A small lizard perched on a brown stone. Feeling threatened by the approach of human beings along the path, it metamorphosed into a sting ray beetle, then into a stench puffer, then into a fiery salamander."
-10. "Part of the problem, Nita thought as she tore desperately down Rose Avenue, is that I can't keep my mouth shut."
-11. "Apart from the one in the church tower, there were five clocks in the village that kept reasonable time, and my father owned one of them."
-12. "It began one day in summer about thirty years ago, and it happened to four children.”
-13. "In fairy-tales, witches always wear silly black hats and black cloaks, and they ride on broomsticks. But this is not a fairy-tale. This is about REAL WITCHES."
-14. "'Too many', James shouted, and slammed the door behind him."
-15. "She could not remember a time when she had not known the story; she had grown up knowing it." [T H and the C, by R M]
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