[amatecha]

Nice. The only opening line I remember offhand is from Neuromancer (which I'm glad to see is included in the site!)

"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."

[dcminter]

It's so interesting that the intuitive meaning of this has changed - first meaning grey, then bright blue, and now... perhaps black, perhaps nothing? What does "a dead channel" mean to kids today?

I recently re-read the sprawl trilogy and thought Neuromancer stood up very well, but the others not so much.

[rhyperior]

To me, not just grey but an ever shifting speckled rainbow colored static with a heavy bias towards grey.

[dcminter]

:) Me too, but it seemed like the people who knew would know and for the ones who didn't "grey" was going to be close enough...

[arkensaw]

to kids today a dead channel would likely mean a youtube channel with no posts for a few years