61 Years Later, The Greatest Opening Line In Sci-Fi Remains Unmatched

The science fiction genre is chock-full of incredible opening lines that serve to immerse readers into their worlds effortlessly and instantly. From George Orwell's ominous "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen" in 1984 to William Gibson's haunting description of a sky "the color of television, tuned to a dead channel" in Neuromancer, some of the genre's greatest books establish their identities from the very first sentence.