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

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

A THICK FILM of neglect still covered everything in sight.

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.

hyperkinetic,

“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.

Monty Python.

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.

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