In 2011 people saw, okay, here's a like a relatively near future dystopia that's pretty well realized it's got a bunch of fun references to Star Wars and video games. And now and now we've kind of crossed a Rubicon of thinking reference. I love references. You know, hey, can tell how something is good because it has a lot of references in it. That's what our podcast is. It is.
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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