You see, ever since the first day of kindergarten, I had been hoping and waiting for some mind-blowingly fantastic, world-altering event to finally shatter the endless monotony of my public education....
Year after year, my eyes would scan the lunchroom like a T-1000, searching for a clique that might accept me.
Viper was also the name of a character in Top Gun, the film he’d just quoted.
Valószínűleg foglalkoztat a kérdés, hogy mi lesz veled. Erre könnyű a válaszolni. Ugyanaz történik majd veled, mint minden egyes emberrel, aki valaha élt. Meg fogsz halni. Mind meghalunk. Ez van. Hog...
Unlike their real-world counterparts, most of the OASIS public school teachers seemed to genuinely enjoy their job,
The weapon had a built-in timer that would prevent it from firing for another twelve hours (a cooling-off period) (...).
The visor was light-years ahead of the clunky virtual-reality goggles available prior to that time, and it represented a paradigm shift in virtual-reality technology—as did the lightweight OASIS hapti...
The once-great country into which I’d been born now resembled its former self in name only. It didn’t matter who was in charge. Those people were rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic and everyone kn...
The moment I began searching for the egg, the future no longer seemed so bleak.
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 govern...
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.
Says you, assface. It has some great moments. No, I said, shaking my head. It doesn’t. It’s even worse than that first Ewok flick, Caravan of Courage. They shoulda called it Caravan of Suck.
Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation was a big place.
On the few occasions that Halliday agreed to do interviews, his behavior came off as bizarre, even by game-designer standards. He was hyperkinetic, aloof, and so socially inept that the interviewers o...
Oh, and Wolverine had that idiotic Muramasa Blade made with part of his soul. Which, while incredibly lame, was still a far cooler magical weapon than Sting!
Og led us through the mansion’s lavish front entrance. The lights were off inside, but instead of turning them on, Morrow took an honest-to-God torch off the wall and used it to illuminate our way.
OASIS. The Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation
Nunca me sentí a gusto en el mundo real. No conectaba bien con su gente. Durante toda mi vida tuve miedo.
Normally, the newsfeeds didn’t interrupt everyone’s interactive sitcoms and soap operas unless something really major had happened. Like the outbreak of some new killer virus, or another major city va...
My ship stood out in the vast array of vessels, since it was the only giant robot.