Since then, we’d used Street Fighter II to settle our disputes.
OK, Arty, I said.
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...
In the OASIS, you could become whomever and whatever you wanted to be, without ever revealing your true identity, because your anonymity was guaranteed.
I felt like a kid standing in the world’s greatest video arcade without any quarters, unable to do anything but walk around and watch the other kids play.
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.
Especially when it came to the videogames. Videogames were my area of expertise. My double-weapon specailization. My dream Jeopardy! category.
Con endoesqueletos accionados con servomotor.
Christ, who the fuck cares, man? Lex hissed back.
CHRONOLOGY
—¿Pues sabes una cosa? Que tú también eres como siempre creí que serías: feo como el culo.
You’re probably wondering what happened before you got here. An awful lot of stuff, actually. Once we evolved into humans, things got pretty interesting. We figured out how to grow food and domesticat...
There was always a trick to beating a computer-controlled opponent. At a game like this, a gifted human player could always triumph over the game’s AI, because software couldn’t improvise. It could ei...
Something Daito had left to me in his will.
Soha senki nem kapja meg, amit akar, és ez gyönyörű.
Ray seemed to subsist primarily on a diet of high-fructose junk food and old videogames. It was hard not to love the guy. Back
On the day the Hunt began, the day I’d decided to become a gunter, I’d renamed my avatar Parzival, after the knight of Arthurian legend who had found the Holy Grail.
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...
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...
La verdad estaba ahí mismo, esperándome, oculta en libros.