![]() ![]() ("The Geek Wants Out," a rant from his hilarious free-download album Ultraman Is Airwolf, is a revealing highlight.) It especially pervades his 2011 best-selling debut novel, Ready Player One, in which the future of 2044 is stuck in the past: Thanks to a treasure hunt programmed by a 1980s-loving rich eccentric, Cline's favorite decades-old TV shows, movies, comics and so forth have become a worldwide preoccupation.Ĭline doesn't build such an elaborate gimmick into his second novel, Armada, but the wall-to-wall pop-culture hat-tips are there anyway. ![]() Nerd culture pervades everything he does, from his screenplay for the movie Fanboys to his spoken-word routines. How?Īt least no one can complain Ernest Cline wears his influences too lightly. ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Armada Author Ernest Cline ![]()
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