American - Novelist | March 29, 1972 -
Once the people of planet Earth are all hanging out together online in a virtual world without any borders, I think it could change social networking, entertainment and even politics.
Ernest Cline
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I don't even think I was quite a year old. My mother was maybe seven months pregnant with my little brother. I was sucked out of her arms, and she landed 75 yards away from our trailer and had a ruptured disc. The tornado set me down on top of this pile of corrugated lumber and scrap metal.
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Before I became a full-time writer, I worked in tech support in those giant cubicle farms you see. I was surrounded by people who played video games all the time - sometimes actually in the call centers, playing online multiplayer games. I saw friends of mine who began to feel that going online was more compelling to them than real life.
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Everything you could ever want to happen happened to me when 'Ready Player One' came out.
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I was just starting out, trying to become a screenwriter, and I became the Austin slam champion three times. For a nerdy, kind of a socially awkward guy, that did wonders for my self esteem.
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'Star Wars' was the mythology of my youth. I longed for adventure.
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In a book, you can describe a scene and have any song you want playing on the radio and have any painting you want hanging on the wall. That was really freeing to me when I was writing 'Ready Player One.' I could throw in everything that I love.
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Growing up in rural Ohio, I knew my way around a double-wide pretty well.
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I wanted to be able to write in the voice that I talk to my friends and assume that everybody would know what I was talking about.
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What's really astounding to me is a lot of the guys at Oculus VR and other companies who were creating VR tell me that 'Ready Player One' is one of their primary inspirations in getting into virtual reality.
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I think it's a bit silly to brand the Internet as the 'downfall of youth.'
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I was 7 years old when the '80s began and 17 years old when they ended, so it was an incredibly formative decade for me.
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