There's a very human impulse behind that which has to do with when those things were not mainstream. The Star Wars devil trick is very valuable here right because it's like we've reached we've passed the point where this is a thing you keep to yourself Like the mainstream 80s nerd culture is pop culture. Mm hmm. All right so here's a here's a list of authors Douglas Adams Kurt Vonnegut Neil Stevenson Richard K Morgan Stephen King Orson Scott card Terry Pratchett Terry Brooks Bester Bradbury Haldeman Heinlein Tolkien Vance Gibson Gaiman Sterling Moorcock Scalsy Zilazny. So if you do any research at all which we did you
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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