A Ready Player One Primer: All the Books, Music, Movies, TV Shows, and Games You Need to Know
So, what if you’re not terribly familiar with the pop culture minutiae of the 1980s, but you want still want…
So, what if you’re not terribly familiar with the pop culture minutiae of the 1980s, but you want still want…
Does anybody else remember when there would be maybe one or two big SFF adaptions in a given year? And…
Is anyone old enough to remember when there’d be, like, one big science fiction or fantasy film in a given…
The act of video gaming in and of itself is a wonderful form of entertainment, allowing players to leave behind…
Novelist, poet, inventor, activist: Margaret Atwood is already a (Canadian) national treasure, and she’s not letting up anytime soon. She…
When it comes to television and film, subcultures don’t get treated very well by the mainstream from which they’ve broken away:…
To celebrate the publication of his second novel Armada, Ernest Cline (Ready Player One) spoke at a Barnes & Noble in Manhattan,…
For me, video games and young adult novels go together like peanut butter and jelly, Oreo cookies and milk, pizza…
Some first novels feel like first novels—passion projects an author has spent an entire lifetime preparing and polishing. Ernest Cline’s…
In the trailer for Disney’s upcoming movie Tomorrowland, aging inventor Frank Walker (George Clooney) tells troubled kid Casey (Britt Robertson) she’s the key to saving…
If we were to pinpoint the highest summit of literary nerdbait, it would be a simple calculation. Ready Player One, Ernest…
Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One is a veritable geek smorgasbord of a novel, a literary turducken stuffing homages to ’80s sci-fi and…