Great first sentences

From Aeon: "The first sentence of any novel works as an invitation into a new world. Sometimes that invitation is so powerful that the sentence itself takes on a life of its own. One example: the opening sentence of Orwell's '1984': 'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.' The sentence is initially unassuming, simply descriptive, but in the startling final detail Orwell achieves estrangement, establishing the alternate nature of the novel's historical reality with economy and force. Another opening line from William Gibson's debut 'Neuromancer': 'The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.'"