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Ready Player One Author Gives First Look at His Metaverse Battle Royale Game
Earlier this year, author Ernst Cline announced that his company would be launching a metaverse company. What made this deeply ironic was that Cline famously wrote Ready Player One, the popular science fiction novel about a dystopia where people escape the harsh realities of their world by plugging into a metaverse-like gaming environment. Now, as…
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Ready Player Two Attempts, But Fails, to Reach the Next Level
Sequels are hard; any fan of pop culture can tell you that. A sequel can’t just match the success of the original, it has to expand on and deepen it. Recontextualise the whole thing in new and exciting ways. Very few sequels achieve this and no one would know that better than fans of, or…
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Ready Player One’s Book Sequel Has a Release Date, I Guess
The dystopian ode to nostalgia and pop culture references is returning. Ready Player One author Ernest Cline has a release date for Ready Player Two, his book sequel that’s been in the works for years… and enters a world that’s kinda over the whole thing.
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A Brief Treatise On The Greatest Line In Ready Player One, And Possibly All Of Cinema
The history of motion pictures is full of iconic lines. Some folks, frankly, don’t give a damn. Others remark on how life, uh, finds a way. Then, there’s this gem from Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One, which will go down as the greatest grouping of words ever uttered on the big screen: “A fanboy knows…