You're going to turn it into a fascist corporate theme park where the few people who can still afford the price of admission no longer have an ounce of freedom.
When I placed the album cover side by side with the screenshot of the game screen, the two symbols matched exactly. 2112’s title track is an epic seven-part song, over twenty minutes in length. The so...
Walking with a dead man over my shoulder. Don't run away, it's only me...
We played vintage board games, watched movies, and listened to music. We talked for hours. Long, rambling conversations about everything under the sun. Spending time with her was intoxicating. We seem...
The Solar Federation was controlled by a group of priests, who are described in Part II of the song, titled The Temples of Syrinx. Its lyrics told me exactly where the Crystal Key was hidden: We are t...
Space—First coin-op arcade game—port of Spacewar!
Rush had been Halliday’s favorite band, from his teens onward. He’d once revealed in an interview that he’d coded every single one of his videogames (including the OASIS) while listening exclusively t...
Os asombraría saber todo lo que se puede investigar cuando uno no tiene vida propia
Looking around, I wondered why Halliday, who always claimed to have had a miserable childhood, had later become so nostalgic for it. I knew that if and when I finally escaped from the stacks, I’d neve...
I’ll still be sitting on my ass all day, five blocks from where I graduated, working the same crappy retail job I had when I was sixteen? I finished for her. Exactly. I tried to look hurt. I find your...
I don’t care if Spielberg directed
He often referred to Rush’s three members—Neil Peart, Alex Lifeson, and Geddy Lee—as the Holy Trinity or the Gods of the North.
H-h-hey there, compadre!
Especially when it came to the videogames. Videogames were my area of expertise. My double-weapon specailization. My dream Jeopardy! category.
You know: dogs and cats living together … mass hysteria!
We’ll do our best. I know you will.
Strong with the Dark Side of the Force that place is. In you must go, mofo.
Philip K. Dick,
Now it’s time to take off every zig for great justice.
Lila! she said, wincing again. Such language, honey! Your parents don’t let you swear like that around them, do they? Whoadie folded her arms. Well, no, they didn’t used to, she said. But they both di...