"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
Neuromancer, William Gibson
"In the week before their departure to Arrakis, when all the final scurrying about had reached a nearly unbearable frenzy, an old crone came to visit the mother of the boy, Paul."
Another:
"The clock struck twelve when a boom echoed throughout the olden province. The ragged clocktower rattled and creaked but continued to stand. Its aged wooden hands blustered with embers and bent into a hexed configuration, as if to say that doomsday had just arrived. Their country's war had just ended but their own war was just beginning. They had no idea." - Stefan Gladdusberg
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Neuromancer, William Gibson
"In the week before their departure to Arrakis, when all the final scurrying about had reached a nearly unbearable frenzy, an old crone came to visit the mother of the boy, Paul."
Dune, Frank Herbert
[1]: https://lithub.com/what-makes-a-great-opening-line/
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30631725