Like most gunters, I voted to reelect Cory Doctorow and Wil Wheaton (again). There were no term limits, and those two geezers had been doing a kick-ass job of protecting user rights for over a decade.
It was still pretty dark down here, so I took out my flashlight and headed east, weaving my way through the dark maze, doing my best to remain unseen while being careful to avoid tripping over a shopp...
It looks just like Rivendell, Aech said, taking the words right out of my mouth.
I was too weird, even for the weirdos.
I was going off the rails on a crazy train. You could practically hear Ozzy screaming All aboard! Don
I understood her, trusted her, and loved her as a dear friend. None of that had changed, or could be changed by anything as inconsequential as her gender, or skin color, or sexual orientation.
I studied Monty Python. And not just Holy Grail, either. Every single one of their films, albums, and books, and every episode of the original BBC series. (Including those two lost episodes they did f...
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 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.
His proclamation was met with a deafening roar of shouted threats, insults, and colorful profanity.
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, I want to thank all of the writers, filmmakers, actors, artists, musicians, programmers, game designers, and geeks whose work I’ve paid tribute to in this story. These people have all enterta...
Eres inteligente. Y tienes cojones. Dos cualidades que admiro mucho.
Era demasiado raro incluso para los raros.
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...
E avevo OASIS. La mia vita non era poi così male. O almeno è quello che continuavo a ripetermi, nel vano tentativo di alleviare la solitudine in cui mi ero trovato a vivere.
Douglas Adams, Kurt Vonnegut, Neal Stephenson, Richard K. Morgan, Stephen King, Orson Scott Card, Terry Pratchett, Terry Brooks,
Dagorath was a word in Sindarin, the Elvish language J. R. R. Tolkien had created for The Lord of the Rings.
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...