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

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“The Holy Trilogies”: Star Wars (original and prequel trilogies, in that order), Lord of the Rings, The Matrix, Mad Max, Back to the Future, and Indiana Jones.

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

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.

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.

Monty Python.

Every flavor of weirdness the human psyche could cook up was being filmed and broadcast online.

A THICK FILM of neglect still covered everything in sight.

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