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Like most gunters, I voted to reelect Cory Doctorow and Wil Wheaton (again). There were no term limits, and those two geezers had been doing a kick-ass job of protecting user rights for over a decade.
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When it came to my research, I never took any shortcuts. Over the past five years, I'd worked my way down the entire recommended gunter reading list. 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.
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Fincher, Kubrick, Lucas, Spielberg, Del Toro, Tarantino. And, of course, Kevin Smith. I spent three months studying every John Hughes teen movie and memorizing all the key lines of dialogue. Only the meek get pinched. The bold survive. You could say I covered all the bases. I studied Monty Python. And not just Holy Grail, either. Every single one of their films, albums, and books, and every episode of the original BBC
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Imagine that Dungeons and Dragons and an '80s video arcade made hot, sweet love, and their child was raised in Azeroth. If you're not already experiencing a nerdgasm at the thought, I don't want to know you." --John Scalzi, New York Times bestselling author of Old Man's War"
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Douglas Adams, Kurt Vonnegut, Neal Stephenson, Richard K. Morgan, Stephen King, Orson Scott Card, Terry Pratchett, Terry Brooks,
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Over the past five years, I'd worked my way down the entire recommended gunter reading list. 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.
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If we don't end war, war will end us. --H. G. Wells
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Then, on the evening of February 11, 2045, an avatar's name appeared at the top of the Scoreboard, for the whole world to see.
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about his origins from the holographic ghost of his own long-dead father. But now I was thinking of a young Jedi-in-training named Luke Skywalker, looking into the mouth of that cave on Dagobah while Master Yoda told him about today's activity lesson: Strong with the Dark Side of the Force that place is. In you must go, mofo. So in I went. When I unlocked the front door of our house and stepped into the living room, Muffit, our ancient beag..
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These items were nothing but ones and zeros stored on the OASIS servers, but they were also status symbols. Most items only cost a few credits, but since they cost nothing for GSS to manufacture, it was all profit.
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Students weren't allowed to use their avatar names while they were at school. This was to prevent teachers from having to say ridiculous things like "Pimp_Grease, please pay attention!" or "BigWang69, would you stand up and give us your book report?"
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I was going off the rails on a crazy train. You could practically hear Ozzy screaming "All aboard!" Don"
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I never wanted to return to the real world. Because the real world sucked. I
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Besides, 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.
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Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!
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It's fucking lame, is what it is! The swords look like they were made out of tinfoil. And that soundtrack is epically lame. Full of synthesizers and shit. By the motherfucking Alan Parsons Project! Lame-o-rama! Beyond lame. Highlander II lame.
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He often referred to Rush's three members--Neil Peart, Alex Lifeson, and Geddy Lee--as "the Holy Trinity" or "the Gods of the North."
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And I was just there, less than an hour ago, debugging subroutines in my cubicle, when a motherfucking Earth Defense Alliance shuttle suddenly shows up and lands right outside my office building! I figured I must be losing it. Now I'm not sure what to think.
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Going outside is highly overrated
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Since their invention about half a century ago, video games have come to play a vital role in modern human civilization. I think this is because we modern humans were never designed to live like we do now--sitting in traffic, working in offices, shopping in stores. We are, by design, hunter-gatherers. Millions of years of evolution have wired our brains with an inherent need to hunt, gather, explore, solve puzzles, form teams, and conquer c..
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Many of the gunters on the front lines took an involuntary step backward. A few others turned and ran for their lives.
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You're welcome.
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Orankon at dumaltunk. Hosszu es csapongo beszelgeteseket folytattunk mindenfelerol. Teljesen elkabitott, amikor idot tolthettem vele. Mintha drog lett volna, amibol sosem eleg. Ugy ereztem, tokeletes az osszhang. Ugyanazok a dolgok erdekeltek minket. Ugyanaz volt a celunk. Minden poenomat ertette. Megnevettetett. Elgondolkodtatott. Neki koszonhetoen mashogy lattam a vilagot. Soha korabban nem volt mas emberi lennyel ilyen bensoseges kapcsol..
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I'd had a hard time getting out of bed in the morning. So I'd disabled my alarm's snooze feature and instructed the computer to blast "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" by Wham! I loathed that song with every fiber of my being,"
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Besides, now I was thinking there just might be a God after all--that would explain who was currently fucking with my whole notion of reality.
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Ismeritek azt a mondast, hogy ha egyszer elhagytatok az otthonotokat, soha nem terhettek vissza oda igazan?
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Meg a kuloncok kozott is kuloncnek szamitottam.
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Soha senki nem kapja meg, amit akar, es ez gyonyoru.
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A kovetkezo a helyzet, Wade. Te egy ugynevezett ,,emberi leny" vagy. Az ember egy nagyon okos allatfajta. Es mint a bolygonk osszes tobbi allata, mi is egy egysejtu organizmustol szarmazunk, amely evmilliokkal elottunk elt. Az elet kialakulasanak folyamatat evolucionak hivjuk, errol kesobb meg tanulni fogsz. Hidd csal el, fuggetlenul attol, amit eddig mondtak neked, igazabol igy jelentunk meg ezen a bolygon. Van ra egy csomo bizonyitek, a s..
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Anorak's Invitation begins with the sound of trumpets, the opening of an old song called "Dead Man's Party."
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Valoszinuleg foglalkoztat a kerdes, hogy mi lesz veled. Erre konnyu a valaszolni. Ugyanaz tortenik majd veled, mint minden egyes emberrel, aki valaha elt. Meg fogsz halni. Mind meghalunk. Ez van. Hogy mi tortenik velunk, amikor meghalunk? Nos, ebben sincs konszenzus. De minden jel arra utal, hogy semmi sem tortenik. Egyszeruen csak meghalunk, az agyunk leall, es aztan mar nem leszunk itt, hogy mindenfele keresztkerdeseket tegyunk fel. Ja,..
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Elhagyni az otthonunkat sulyosan tulertekelt cselekves.
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As I watched them embrace, there on the front lawn, my heart was rocked by waves of unbridled joy. It occurred to me that up until this moment I'd only ever experienced the bridled kind. Having the reins slipped off my heart after a lifetime of wearing them was a bit overwhelming - in the best possible way
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I voted to reelect Cory Doctorow and Wil Wheaton (again). There were no term limits, and those two geezers had been doing a kick-ass job of protecting user rights for over a decade.
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Sentia debilidad fetichista por las chicas guapas y raritas que tocaban el ukelele, una debilidad fetichista que no puedo ni quiero explicar ni defender
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I'll still be sitting on my ass all day, five blocks from where I graduated, working the same crappy retail job I had when I was sixteen?" I finished for her. "Exactly." I tried to look hurt. "I find your lack of faith disturbing."
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Lila!" she said, wincing again. "Such language, honey! Your parents don't let you swear like that around them, do they?" Whoadie folded her arms. "Well, no, they didn't used to," she said. "But they both died in a hurricane when I was little, so now I get to say whatever the fuck I want."
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Shin told me that the EDA spent decades engineering a special strain of weed that helps people focus and enhances their ability to play videogames! Once they had it perfected, that was when the government finally started legalizing it in the States." He raised his arms in victory. "This ganja is part of the war effort! I love it!" He broke into song, and Shin immediately joined him. " 'America. Fuck yeah. Comin' to save the motherfuckin' da..
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The farther I went, the more confident I became.
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Finally, I want to thank all of the writers, filmmakers, actors, artists, musicians, programmers, game designers, and geeks whose work I've paid tribute to in this story. These people have all entertained and enlightened me, and I hope that--like Halliday's hunt--this book will inspire others to seek out their creations.
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Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable. --Anorak's Almanac, Chapter 91, Verses 1-2
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Anorak" was a nickname Halliday had been given by a female British exchange student at his high school."
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Azert hoztam letre az OASIS-t, mert soha nem talaltam a helyem a valosagban. Nem tudtam, hogyan teremtsek kapcsolatot az emberekkel. Egesz eletemben feltem. Egeszen addig, amig fel nem fogtam, hogy hamarosan vege. Akkor ertettem meg, hogy neha, barmennyire is remiszto es fajdalmas, a valosag az egyetlen hely, ahol igazi boldogsagra talalhatunk. Es a valosag valos.
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Without the built-in sexual release valve provided by masturbation, it's doubtful that early humans would have ever mastered the secrets of fire or discovered the wheel. And you can bet that Galileo, Newton, and Einstein never would have made their discoveries if they hadn't first been able to clear their heads by slapping the salami (or "knocking a few protons off the old hydrogen atom"). The same goes for Marie Curie. Before she discovere..
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