Five fantasy novels with perfect opening lines

At Tor.com, Soman Chainani tagged five SFF novels with perfect opening lines, including:
William Gibson’s Neuromancer

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

Character often works better than setting as the subject of a stirring first line, but here Gibson uses an image so stark, arresting, and memorable that we can both clearly visualize the gray, drab