5/23/2023 0 Comments Ernest cline armada 2![]() ![]() Now, four years later, Cline’s cult following is clamoring for his next book: Armada. ![]() It was good stuff and, despite the novel being one ginormous mash-up, it was original and it was entertaining. Readers who loved Star Wars, read William Gibson or Douglas Adams, listened to Rush, or quoted lines from The Breakfast Club fell under Cline’s spell. ![]() ![]() It wasn’t just the 20-sided dice rollers and the joystick jockeys – no. Yes, Ready Player One was some uber-geekery, but in finding an audience Cline cast a large net. Once inside the party, he orders a pan-galactic gargle blaster ( Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) and dances to 1980s grooves mixed by the DJ, R2-D2. The DeLorean sports an onboard computer named KITT ( Knight Rider) and Ghostbuster stickers on its gullwing doors. In a single scene, the main character shows up at a (virtual) party in a tricked-out DeLorean he won in a Back to the Future quest on the planet Zemeckis. Crown, 2015Ernest Cline’s debut novel, Ready Player One, was a kaleidoscopic smorgasbord of 1980s pop culture slammed into the virtual world of a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) that existed in Cline’s nightmarish, post-apocalyptic vision of the 21st century. ![]()
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