How to Be an Incipit

A few more:

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

Neuromancer, William Gibson

"In the week before their departure to Arrakis, when all the final scurrying about had reached a nearly unbearable frenzy, an old crone came to visit the mother of the boy, Paul."

Dune, Frank Herbert

Related – “What Makes a Great Opening Line?”[1], discussed here[2].

[1]: https://lithub.com/what-makes-a-great-opening-line/

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30631725

Another: "The clock struck twelve when a boom echoed throughout the olden province. The ragged clocktower rattled and creaked but continued to stand. Its aged wooden hands blustered with embers and bent into a hexed configuration, as if to say that doomsday had just arrived. Their country's war had just ended but their own war was just beginning. They had no idea." - Stefan Gladdusberg

“It was a nice day.” Neil Gaiman,Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch