The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel
year | author | title | quote | note |
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1984 | William Gibson | Neuromancer | The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel | The original |
1996 | Neil Gaiman | Neverwhere | The sky was the perfect untroubled blue of a television screen, tuned to a dead channel. | |
1997? 2007? | Frank Schätzing | Die dunkle Seite | Der Himmel über Köln war wie ein leerer Bildschirm. | It's summer and very hot, so the sky is probably blue here. |
2004 | Charles Stross | The Family Trade | The sky was the color of a dead laptop display, silver-gray and full of rain. | |
2007 | Charles Stross | Halting State | There's a faint popping noise, and the entire wall of the incident room shifts to the colour of the night sky above a Japanese city. | Nice inversion. |
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