My haptic suit did its best to simulate the sensation of torrents of falling water striking my body, but it felt more like someone pounding on my head, shoulders, and back with a bundle of sticks.
Knavery? Art3mis said after she’d finished reading it. Were you using a thesaurus when you wrote this?
I wasn't some dilettante.
I was too weird, even for the weirdos. And girls? Talking to girls was out of the question. To me, they were like some exotic alien species, both beautiful and terrifying.
I usually muted him, but I still recognized his Philly accent, and the cocky attitude that seemed to come along with it.
I thought. You’re going to turn it into a fascist corporate theme park
I reminded myself that I was a man of science, even if I did usually get a C in it.
I never ran out of ammo, because each time I fired a round, a new round was teleported into the bottom of the clip.
I need each of you to build the best rig you can, as fast as you can.
I learned the name of every last goddamn Gobot and Transformer. Land of the Lost, Thundarr the Barbarian, He-Man, Schoolhouse Rock!, G.I. Joe—I knew them all. Because knowing is half the battle.
I didn’t get to find out who or what Kilgore was, because my father walked over and closed Milo’s pod canopy for him. Then he walked back over and watched nervously as I raised his QComm and placed th...
I devoured each of what Halliday referred to as The Holy Trilogies: Star Wars (original and prequel trilogies, in that order), Lord of the Rings, The Matrix, Mad Max, Back to the Future, and Indiana J...
I couldn't make myself be cautious around her. A little voice in my head kept trying to tell me that every word she said could be disinformation and that she might be playing me for a fool. But I didn...
I blinked and looked again—but it was still out there, a shiny chrome disc zigzagging around in the sky. My eyes struggled to track the object through a series of increasingly fast, impossibly sharp t...
Good luck, Parzival, he said. And thanks. Thanks for playing my game.
Era el nacimiento de una nueva era, una era en la que casi toda la humanidad pasaba su tiempo libre en un videojuego.
D&D
Cats with a serious marble deficiency.
Casi siempre, la vida del ser humano es repugnante.Los videojuegos son lo único que la hacen soportable
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...