First Lines: William Gibson - All Tomorrow’s Parties

Through this evening's tide of faces unregistered, unrecognized, amid hurrying black shoes, furled umbrellas, the crowd descending like single organism into the station's airless heart, comes Shinya Yamazaki, his notebook clasped beneath his arm like the egg case of some modest but moderately successful marine species.

First Lines: William Gibson - Idoru

After Slitscan, Laney heard about another job from Rydell, the night security man at the Chateau.

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First Lines: William Gibson - Mona Lisa Overdrive

The ghost was her father's parting gift, presented by a black-clad secretary in a departure lounge at Narita.

First Lines: William Gibson - Count Zero

They set a slamhound on Turner's trail in New Delhi, slotted it to his pheromones and the colour of his hair.

First Lines: William Gibson - Neuromancer

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