![]() ![]() Many survivors have retreated into a virtual reality simulation called the OASIS. ![]() In Ready Player One, the Earth has been devastated by overpopulation, climate change, corporate greed and indentured servitude. Everything changed for me and my family during those two days.” ![]() I wasn’t even sure it was legal to publish. I wasn’t sure you could tell a story weaving pop culture in as major plot points and as a shorthand to tell the story. “At that point I wasn’t even sure I could get the book published. “It was the most exciting 48 hours of my life,” recalls the author. Cline had been tinkering with the manuscript for 10 years, unsure that anyone would be interested. The film rights to the book were snapped up the following day by Warner Brothers. In 2010, Cline sold his first novel, Ready Player One, in a bidding war. A decade ago, Ernie – as he introduces himself – was an award-winning slam poet who had posted a fan fiction script online (a sequel to the 1984 cult favourite, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension) and co-written Fanboys, a screenplay about Star Wars obsessives. Just when you think the geeks couldn't possibly inherit any more of the earth, along comes Ernest Cline in his tricked-out DeLorean. ![]()
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