
As surely as the day I first read it, the opening line of Neuromancer instantly calls to mind the grey “snow” of a TV channel whose broadcast station has powered off for the night.
For those born after the advent of digital broadcasts, it looked like this…

And occasionally this when the insomnia caught up with you…

(Also, to Autocorrect which keeps trying to change Neuromancer to Necromancer…GFY, Autocorrect.)