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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