hjp: sf: ideas: color of tv

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel

year author title quote note
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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