I never knew how to act or what to say, and when I did work up the courage to speak, I always seemed to say the wrong thing.
I just turned sixteen last week, she said. But I don’t have my license yet. You sound like you’re from New Orleans, Debbie told her, doing her best to pronounce it N’Awlins. Whoadie nodded. I live in...
I don’t want to work with you. I leveled a finger at him. You give me the creeps. But if your superiors are willing to fire your ass and give me your position, I’m in. It’s a done deal. Silence.
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 bear the idea that the girl with whom I was virtually smitten might actually be some middle-aged dude named Chuck, with back hair and male-pattern baldness.
I also absorbed the complete filmographies of each of his favorite directors. Cameron, Gilliam, Jackson, Fincher, Kubrick, Lucas, Spielberg, Del Toro, Tarantino. And, of course, Kevin Smith.
Going outside is highly overrated
Going outside is highly overrated. —Anorak’s Almanac, Chapter 17, Verse 32
For me, school had been a Darwinian exercise. A daily gauntlet of ridicule, abuse, and isolation.
Finally, after it felt like we’d been crawling along the highway for months, the Columbus skyline appeared on the horizon, glittering like Oz at the end of the yellow brick road.
Everything about our online personas is filtered through our avatars, which allows us to control how we look and sound to others. The OASIS lets you be whoever you want to be. That’s why everyone is a...
Even humanity's lack of concern for its rampant overpopulation problem now made a terrible kind of sense. What difference did it make if our planet was capable of supporting all seven billion of us in...
Each enemy I vanquished dropped a pile of Zenny coins that I could later use to purchase armor, weapons, and potions from one of the bearded wise men scattered throughout each level. (These wise men a...
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, S...
Creé Oasis porque nunca me sentí a gusto en el mundo real. No conectaba bien con su gente. Durante toda mi vida tuve miedo. Hasta el momento en que supe que llegaba a su fin. Fue entonces cuando me di...
Como decía G. I. Joe: ¡Saber es la mitad de la batalla!
Cameron, Gilliam, Jackson, Fincher, Kubrick, Lucas, Spielberg, Del Toro, Tarantino. And, of course, Kevin Smith.
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.
Because there is no map for where we are going...