This week we're going to talk 8-bit about Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. We'll circle strafe some of the book's big themes like nostalgia and gamer saviors. It seemed to channel a lot of gamers joy at the time but does it stick?
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.