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Probably the best opening to any non Pratchett book.
I personally really like Mark Lawrence's red sister opening slightly more for its world building and absurdity until you find out why nuns and the MC particularly are so dangerous in that world
Seveneves starts with the moon shattering.
And Seveneves is a really good book!
But to me at least there's something incredible and perfect about Douglas Adams jokingly summing up all that ever was, is and will be in two sentences that while almost nonsense also completely capture the situation.
”The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel.”