Our adventure takes place in the near future (about 30 years from now). Most people spend most of their time online (wait…) only online is way cooler. They have the OASIS, which is kind of like a holodeck. You put on a visor and haptic gloves and interact with your online world via your avatar. (Kind of like the movie Avatar.) And as the real world has gone to shit, being in the OASIS is way better than real life. The creator of the OASIS, […]
“They Should’ve Sent a Gamer”
Ernest Cline has a lot going for him: His first major novel (Ready Player One) was a huge success, it is being turned into a movie directed by Steven Spielberg, and he is getting a screenwriting credit. Cline’s follow up to Ready Player One is Armada. In the simplest of terms, it’s the story of some nerds who try to save the world. Like Ready Player One, Armada is a story largely told through nerd culture references from the 1970s to the present. However, while […]
I’m on board until someone mentions Zubaz pants.
In a vacuum, I think this book gets four stars. In a vacuum, I think the general opinion for the book is that it’s an engaging story with fairly likable characters that pays homage to numerous classic and iconic science fiction stories from past decades: from Ender’s Game to Close Encounters of the Third Kind. In a vacuum. But this book doesn’t exist in a vacuum. In the rich and dense atmosphere of Earth, this is the much anticipated follow-up to Ready Player One, which […]
Welcome to the (digital) Thunderdome!
I knew that I had missed something important when I saw the number of my friends on Goodreads who had read this book and loved it, and then was chastised by someone for not having read it yet once I had put it on my “to read” shelf. All right already! :) It was the next book I picked up, and everyone was right: it was fantastic! I finished this book weeks ago, and I am a big jet lagged so this will be brief. […]