Book meme answers.

So it doesn't look like anyone else is going to guess, so here are the answers to the unguessed first lines:

1: . . . and the government of the United States of America is herewith suspended, except in the District of Columbia, as of the emergency. [Earth Abides, by George Stewart.]

2: On the day the armada went off to war, on the last day of life as we knew it, I was invited to a party. [Fall of Hyperion, by Dan Simmons.]

3: Kowloon. The teeming final extension of China that is no part of the north except in spirit--but the spirit runs deep and descends into the caverns of men's souls without regard for the harsh, irrelevant practicalities of political borders. [The Bourne Supremacy, by Robert Ludlum. 1/3-guessed by nendil.]

5: When the world was new, the seven Gods dwelt in harmony, and the races of man were as one people. [Pawn of Prophecy, by David Eddings.]

6: It was the summer when the price of a small loaf of bread topped a million rubles. [Icon, by Frederick Forsyth.]

7: 'I am inclined to think--' said I. [The Valley of Fear, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.]