Ready Player One: The global bestseller and now a major Steven Spielberg movie

and approached the large crystal door set into the north wall.

A THICK FILM of neglect still covered everything in sight.

“No one in the world ever gets what they want and that is beautiful.”

my aunt Alice walked in, a malnourished harpy in a housecoat,

lucid

now that everyone could vote from home, via the OASIS, the only people who could get elected were movie stars, reality TV personalities, or radical televangelists.

figured out how to open the gate. Simply inserting the Crystal Key into the keyhole had

Douglas Adams. Kurt Vonnegut. Neal Stephenson. Richard K. Morgan. Stephen King. Orson Scott Card. Terry Pratchett. Terry Brooks. Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein, Tolkien, Vance, Gibson, Gaiman, Sterling, Moorcock, Scalzi, Zelazny.

To quote the Almanac: “People who live in glass houses should shut the fuck up.”