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standing on Europa, discussing the possibility of extraterrestrial life beneath the moon's icy crust.
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Three hidden keys open three secret gates Wherein the errant will be tested for worthy traits And those with the skill to survive these straits Will reach The End where the prize awaits
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The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games.
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my two least-favorite words appeared on the screen: GAME OVER.
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She used to make me wear earplugs at night so I wouldn't hear her in the next room, talking dirty to tricks in other time zones.
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Pues sabes una cosa? Que tu tambien eres como siempre crei que serias: feo como el culo.
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all dressed in mid-1980s attire. A woman with a giant ozone-depleting hairdo bobbed her head to an oversize Walkman. A
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Y, sin poder evitarlo, me eche a reir. Era una risa absurda, sin sentido, y sabia que ella se daba cuenta, porque al momento vi que relajaba un poco los hombros y soltaba un suspiro de alivio. Y entonces ella tambien solto una carcajada que, en realidad, era mitad risa y mitad llanto. O eso me parecio.
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Neonoir
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Era el nacimiento de una nueva era, una era en la que casi toda la humanidad pasaba su tiempo libre en un videojuego.
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Also, it turns out that burning all of those fossil fuels had some nasty side effects, like raising the temperature of our planet and screwing up the environment. So now the polar ice caps are melting, sea levels are rising, and the weather is all messed up. Plants and animals are dying off in record numbers, and lots of people are starving and homeless. And we're still fighting wars with each other, mostly over the few resources we have le..
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Newer, faster, or more versatile components were always being released, so I was constantly spending large chunks of my meager income on upgrades.
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Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star. One of over a hundred billion stars in our galaxy. A galaxy that was just one of billions of other galaxies in the observable universe. This helped me keep things in perspective.
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In the OASIS, you got used to seeing freakishly beautiful faces on everyone. But Art3mis's features didn't look as though they'd been selected from a beauty drop-down menu on some avatar creation template. Her face had the distinctive look of a real person's, as if her true features had been scanned in and mapped onto her avatar. Big hazel eyes, rounded cheekbones, a pointy chin, and a perpetual smirk. I found her unbearably attractive. Art..
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Agarre uno al azar y lo meti en la ranura. Por los altavoces internos y externos del robot empezo a sonar Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, de AC/DC, a un volumen tan exagerado que la silla en la que iba sentado empezo a vibrar.
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El plan era tan disparatado que suponia que nadie podia haberlo previsto.
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Joder, tia, sabes un monton. +Gracias. Ser obsesiva y compulsiva ayuda. Sin vida propia.
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Nunca me senti a gusto en el mundo real. No conectaba bien con su gente. Durante toda mi vida tuve miedo.
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Y teniendo en cuenta que somos un punado de monos sin pelo, lo cierto es que hemos llegado a inventar algunas cosas increibles.
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The Copper Key awaits explorers In a tomb filled with horrors But you have much to learn If you hope to earn A place among the high scorers
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Walking with a dead man over my shoulder. Don't run away, it's only me...
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No aceptan la idea de que una mujer sea mas lista que ellos y vaya por delante.
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My generation had never known a world without the OASIS. To us, it was much more than a game or an entertainment platform. It had been an integral part of our lives for as far back as we could remember. We'd been born into an ugly world, and the OASIS was our one happy refuge.
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Oculto a la vista de todos.
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Notaba que iba sucumbiendo a una desesperanza inconmensurable.
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Resulto ser una bendicion envenenada.
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La verdad estaba ahi mismo, esperandome, oculta en libros.
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Como decia G. I. Joe: !Saber es la mitad de la batalla!
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Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein, Tolkien, Vance, Gibson, Gaiman, Scalzi, Zelazny.
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The OASIS would ultimately change the way people around the world lived, worked, and communicated.
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MTFBWYA, Parzival
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Casi siempre, la vida del ser humano es repugnante. Los videojuegos son lo unico que la hacen soportable.
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Xur
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You don't need to sell me on anything, Wade," she said. "You're my best friend. My favorite person." With" --
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We talked for hours. Long, rambling conversations about everything under the sun. Spending time with her was intoxicating. We seemed to have everything in common. We shared the same interests. We were driven by the same goal. She got all of my jokes. She made me laugh. She made me think. She changed the way I saw the world. I'd never had such a powerful, immediate connection with another human being before.
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El Riesgo Siempre Vive
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But you do realize that nearly half the people on this planet are starving, right?" I detected no malice in her voice. She sounded like she genuinely believed I might not be aware of this fact. "Yes, I know," I said defensively. "The reason so many people are starving is because we've wrecked the planet. The Earth is dying, you know? It's time to leave."
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Unlike their real-world counterparts, most of the OASIS public school teachers seemed to genuinely enjoy their job,
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Ernest Cline lives in Austin, Texas, where he devotes a large portion of his time to geeking out. This is his first novel.
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Begin morning run," I said to Max. "Bifrost track." The virtual gym vanished. Now I was standing on a semitransparent running track, a curved looping ribbon suspended in a starry nebula. Giant ringed planets and multicolored moons were suspended in space all around me. The running track stretched out ahead of me, rising, falling, and occasionally spiraling into a helix."
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Eres malvada. Supongo que ya lo sabes. +Caotica neutral, cielo.
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Eres inteligente. Y tienes cojones. Dos cualidades que admiro mucho.
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No tenia sentido negar la evidencia.
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You could shove it up your ass and pretend you're a corn dog.
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