Ernest Cline

Let's look at Steven Spielberg's return to the list with 2018's Ready Player One.

Uh, based on Ernest Cline's 2011 novel.

This takes us to 2045.

The real world is a decrepit, failing mess, and society has essentially given up on fixing it.

yeah so i i've got the uh the dungeon crawler carl right now i just got through the the harry potter books again oh nice with jim dell is the uh the the narrator And I do really enjoy it.

I'm just looking forward to getting even some more books by Ernest Cline.

He's the one who did Ready Player One, Ready Player Two.

Nice.

a dude playing video games, gets recruited to help defend Earth against an alien invader.

Oh, cool.

It's a fantastic book, so I just want to see more work from Ernest Cline.

Ernest Cline? I enjoy it, yeah.

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A seventh generation Pennsylvanian, she lives in Philadelphia with her husband, the novelist Ernest Cline, and their children.

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Like Tron, the main character of Ready Player One spends the majority of his time inside of a video game, and like The Last Starfighter, our character lives in a multi-tiered trailer park, albeit the tiers are a lot closer together.

Ernest Cline, the author of Ready Player One, would pay more of an homage to The Last Starfighter with his second book, which is called Armada.

The description of Armada in Wikipedia reads, quote, "The story follows a teenager who plays an online video game about defending against an alien invasion, only to find out that the game is a simulator that prepares him and people around the world for defending against the actual alien invasion." Unquote.

So other than that word online, that's a pretty dead-on description of The Last Starfighter.

Written by...

Ernest Cline.

Who dat?

Author.

It doesn't move

me.

It's directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the novel by Ernest Cline.

Who?

Word search and cryptogram only solved.

I didn't go deep, like looking for Ernest Cline's son's middle name and try to tie that into the treasure or something like that.

There's no boggling, none at all, no ciphers, none at all, except for the cryptogram.

So it's just a very straightforward solve.

There's always a book to read.

In fact, I've just got, 'cause I'm, I, I'm an '80s child, I was born in the '70s, but I lived my teens in the '80s, I've just gone back to Ernest Cline and Ready Player One 'cause of all the '80s nostalgia through it.

So, you know, any- anything that stimulates your brain, uh, I think is good.

And I think books are good because they're a complete story, as opposed to all this online scrolling where seven seconds later you've moved onto something else.

And he entered into his maiden voyage as a novelist.

with the book of Luke and I liken it to I mean if you ever read the look I don't read a lot of books so my comparisons are going to be limited but a book that I really liked by by Ernest Cline ready player one which of course like you know set in the world of like video games and the sort of metaverse and things like that it's just loaded with all these references That's what the book of Luke is.

And it's a, it's a novel.

It's a story.