Deviant soccer moms in Minnesota.
You’re just dead, your brain stops working, and then you’re not around to ask annoying questions anymore.
You really think it’s that simple? I said. That you can just write a check for two hundred and forty billion dollars and fix all the world’s problems?
You had to be careful whenever you entered a new zone or sector. You had to be prepared. But like I said, I didn’t have that problem. I was stuck at school.
Year after year, my eyes would scan the lunchroom like a T-1000, searching for a clique that might accept me.
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. Ric...
We sat there awhile, holding hands, reveling in the strange new sensation of actually touching one another.
Viper was also the name of a character in Top Gun, the film he’d just quoted.
Time to make the doughnuts.
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 w...
The weapon had a built-in timer that would prevent it from firing for another twelve hours (a cooling-off period) (...).
The prize for the Earthworld contest was the Talisman of Penultimate Truth.
The moment I began searching for the egg, the future no longer seemed so bleak.
The hour draws near!
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
That was when I realized, as terrifying and painful as reality can be, it’s also the only place where you can find true happiness.
Standing there, under the bleak fluorescents of my tiny one-room apartment, there was no escaping the truth. In real life, I was nothing but an antisocial hermit. A recluse. A pale-skinned pop culture...
Standing on the left side of the runway was my battle-worn X-wing fighter. Parked on the right side was my DeLorean. Sitting on the runway itself was my most frequently used spacecraft, the Vonnegut....
Spending time with her was intoxicating. We seemed to have everything in common. We shared the same interest. We were driven by the same goal. She got all my jokes. She made me laugh. She made me thin...
Shit! I heard Diehl shout over the comm. I just lost my gorram shields because I’m already out of frakkin’ power! Dude, Cruz said. You shouldn’t mix swears from different universes. Says who? Diehl sh...