Nejsem z reality zrovna na větvi, ale je to pořád jediné místo, kde dostanete slušné jídlo. (Groucho Marx)
Lì, sotto le cupe luci fluorescenti del mio minuscolo monolocale, non c’era modo di sfuggire alla verità. Nella vita reale, non ero altro che un eremita asociale. Un recluso. Un nerd con una carnagion...
Like most gunters, I voted to reelect Cory Doctorow and Wil Wheaton (again).
Just a maintenance tech here, folks, heading home after a long night of rebooting routers. That’s all. I am definitely not an indent making a daring escape with ten zettabytes of stolen company data i...
I’d had a hard time getting out of bed in the morning. So I’d disabled my alarm’s snooze feature and instructed the computer to blast Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go by Wham! I loathed that song with ever...
In the OASIS, you got used to seeing freakishly beautiful faces on everyone. But Art3mis’s features didn’t look as though they’d been selected from a beauty drop-down menu on some avatar creation temp...
In a way, these old role-playing games had been the first virtual-reality simulations, created long before computers were powerful enough to do the job. In those days, if you wanted to escape to anoth...
Imagine that Dungeons and Dragons and an ’80s video arcade made hot, sweet love, and their child was raised in Azeroth. If you’re not already experiencing a nerdgasm at the thought, I don’t want to kn...
I fired a last volley of plasma bolts at the unprotected enemy ship, which was already vibrating from the buildup of power in its reactor core, and held my breath as they streaked toward it, silently...
I didn’t know how to connect with the people there. I was afraid, for all of my life. Right up until I knew it was ending. That was when I realized, as terrifying and painful as reality can be, it’s a...
I blinked and looked again—but it was still out there, a shiny chrome disc zigzagging around in the sky. My eyes struggled to track the object through a series of increasingly fast, impossibly sharp t...
Good luck, Parzival, he said. And thanks. Thanks for playing my game.
El Riesgo Siempre Vive
Did my ‘recruit profile’ mention that my anger-management issues might be linked to the tragic death of my father in a shit-factory explosion when I was ten months old? The
Como decía G. I. Joe: ¡Saber es la mitad de la batalla!
Cats with a serious marble deficiency.
Because there is no map for where we are going...
Any business that wanted to set up shop inside the OASIS had to rent or purchase virtual real estate (which Morrow dubbed surreal estate) from GSS.
List. 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, Gai...
Your mom bought them for me, I retorted without breaking my stride. Tell her I said thanks, the next time you stop at home to breast-feed and pick up your allowance. Childish, I know. But virtual or n...