Quotes from Ernest Cline

The Firefly universe was anchored in a sector adjacent to the Star Wars galaxy, with a detailed re-creation of the Star Trek universe in the sector adjacent to that.

I don't know exactly what happened next, or how it all went down.

Now whenever I watched a Star Wars film, I found myself wondering how the Empire had the technology to make long-distance holographic phone calls between planets light-years apart, and yet no one had figured out how to make a remote-controlled TIE Fighter or X-Wing yet.

I had a serious cute-geeky-girls-playing-ukuleles fetish that I can neither explain nor defend.

I had been hoping and waiting for some mind-blowingly fantastic, world-altering event to finally shatter the endless monotony of my public education.

All the intervening layers slipped away, and I lost myself in the game within the game.

If it weren't for Tolkien, all of us nerds would've had a lot less fun during the last ninety years.

It occurred to me then that for the first time in as long as I could remember, I had absolutely no desire to log back into the OASIS." - Wade Owen Watts Ready Player One

Now I feel bad," Diehl said. "Like we're about to nuke Aquaman. Or the Little Mermaid.…" "Pretend they're Gungans," Cruz suggested. "And that we get to nuke Jar Jar.

You know, sort of like Obi-Wan, watching over Luke while he was growing up on Tatooine." "You're a bold-faced liar like Obi-Wan, too!" I shot back. "That's for sure." Ray's smile vanished, and his eyes narrowed. "And you're being a whiny little bitch, just like Luke!

At the end of the day, I was still a virgin, all alone in a dark room, humping a lubed-up robot.

It's chick flick disguised as a sword-and-sorcery picture. The only genre film with less balls is probably... freakin' Legend . Anyone who actually enjoys Ladyhawke is a bona fide USDA-choice pussy!

Other virtual worlds soon followed suit, from the Metaverse to the Matrix. The Firefly universe was anchored in a sector adjacent to the Star Wars galaxy, with a detailed re-creation of the Star Trek universe in the sector adjacent to that. Users could now teleport back and forth between their favorite fictional worlds. Middle Earth. Vulcan. Pern. Arrakis. Magrathea. Discworld, Mid-World, Riverworld, Ringworld. Worlds upon worlds.

When it came to my research, I never took any shortcuts. Over the past five years, I'd worked my way down the entire recommended gunter reading list. Douglas Adams. Kurt Vonnegut. Neal Stephenson. Richard K. Morgan. Stephen King. Orson Scott Card. Terry Pratchett. Terry Brooks. Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein, Tolkien, Vance, Gibson, Gaiman, Sterling, Moorcock, Scalzi, Zelazny.

Before long, billions of people around the world were working and playing in the OASIS every day. Some of them met, fell in love, and got married without ever setting foot on the same continent. The lines of distinction between a person's real identity and that of their avatar began to blur. It was the dawn of new era, one where most of the human race now spent all of their free time inside a videogame.

That there was nothing so wrong in the world that we couldn't sort it out by the end of a single half-hour episode (or maybe a two-parter, if it was something really serious).

The OASIS lets you be whoever you want to be. That's why everyone is addicted to it.

I tried to remain skeptical. I reminded myself that I was a man of science, even if I did usually get a C in it.

It was the dawn of new era, one where most of the human race now spent all of their free time inside a videogame.

That's how you know you've mastered a videogame—when a bunch of butt-hurt crybabies start to accuse you of cheating in an effort to cope with the beatdown they've just suffered at your hands.

Screw you, Aech! And your dead grandma!

You don't live in the real world, Z. From what you've told me, I don't think you ever have. You're like me. You live inside this illusion." She motioned to our virtual surroundings.

Anyone smart enough to accomplish what they have should know better than to risk everything by talking to the vultures in the media.

I mean, did you ever hear of Wikipedia? It's free, douchebag.