There's some elements of climate change apocalypse though I don't know if it's specific is there any like reference to the immense like energy consumption that such a network would require. Sure. So what happens is around all of the major American cities like everybody just flees to these cities to try and like to find work or to find energy or to find people. And so around all these cities in the suburbs you get these things called the stacks which are giant piles basically of mobile homes like stacked one on top of the other. Okay. But the image of that like the image of a million different like trailer homes stacked on top of each other in desperation just to like try and increase the population density
Put another quarter in the coin slot folks, because it's time to talk about Ernest Cline's Ready Player One. Topics include bad fan culture, the narrowness of the characters' "exhaustive" knowledge of 80s popular culture, and why the critical response to this book has shifted so much in just a few short years.
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