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1	* ReferencedBy: ''Literature/{{Wake}}'' borrows the first line of ''Literature/{{Neuromancer}}'' --[[LeftFieldDescription "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel"]]-- with a TechnologyMarchesOn twist: "The sky above the island was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel — which is to say it was a bright, cheery blue." Some fans take it further: [[http://www.project-apollo.net/headroom/index.html "The sky over the port was the color of a television set tuned to PBS"]].
2	* TechnologyMarchesOn:
3	** Many modern readers have poked fun at the presence of public payphones in "Neuromancer."
4	** And Case's deal in the beginning to sell 3 megabytes of "hot RAM."
5	** In a more meta sense, Gibson admits to writing the story on a manual typewriter, just when word processors were coming into wider use.
6	** It starts with the very first line. "The sky was the color of television tuned to a dead channel" is beautifully poetic and story-appropriate, if you are considering an analog CRT television. In a strange twist of fate, most modern televisions revert to a bright blue screen when getting no signal, making the line seem to mean the opposite of what was intended.
7	*** The first sentence of Creator/NeilGaiman's novel ''Literature/{{Neverwhere}}'' is a shout-out to this very idea:
8	--->The sky was the perfect blue of a television, turned to a dead channel.

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