Ready Player One
Ernest Cline, 2011
A teenager in a collapsing near-future hunts for a fortune hidden inside a vast virtual world, where knowing 1980s pop culture is the only edge.
Ernest Cline
Before Ready Player One, Cline co-wrote the 2009 film Fanboys and spent years collecting 1980s arcade games and memorabilia.
Feels like memory, dread and wonder.
What a sitcom family can give a kid who has none.
Sitting alone in the dark, watching the show on my laptop, I always found myself imagining that I lived in that warm, well-lit house, and that those smiling, understanding people were my family. That there was nothing so wrong in the world that we couldn’t sort it out by the end of a single half-hour episode (or maybe a two-parter, if it was something really serious). Books by Ernest Cline
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