Ernest Cline
Ernest Cline
Ernest Christy Clineis an American novelist, spoken-word artist, and screenwriter. He is mostly famous for his novels Ready Player One and Armada; He also co-wrote the screenplay of Ready Player One's upcoming film adaptation by Steven Spielberg...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth17 September 1972
CityAshland, OH
CountryUnited States of America
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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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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.
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I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80.
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Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand.
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I've retroactively made all that wasted time rotting my brain into research. It makes me a hypocrite when I try to tell my own daughter, "I don't know, I think we've played a little too much Mario."
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I never ran out of ammo, because each time I fired a round, a new round was teleported into the bottom of the clip. My bullet bill this month was going to be huge.
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My characters are all kind of geek archetypes of people I've encountered at gaming and comic book conventions.
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Virtual sex, no matter how realistic, was really nothing but glorified, computer-assisted masturbation.
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Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star. One of over a hundred billion in our galaxy. A galaxy that was just one of billions of other galaxies in the observable universe. This helped me keep things in perspective.
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I was watching a collection of vintage '80s cereal commercials when I paused to wonder why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy prizes inside every box. It was a tragedy, in my opinion. Another sign that civilization was going straight down the tubes.
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As we continued to talk, going through the motions of getting to know each other, I realized that we already did know each other, as well as any two people could. We’d known each other for years, in the most intimate way possible. We’d connected on a purely mental level. I understood her, trusted her, and loved her as a dear friend. None of that had changed, or could be changed by anything as inconsequential as her gender, or skin color, or sexual orientation.
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The clans began to bombard the outer force field with rockets, missiles, nukes, and harsh language.
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A river of words flowed between us.
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I burned through all of my extra lives in a matter of minutes, and my two least-favorite words appeared on the screen: GAME OVER.