Ready Player One

An amazing book . But a dark, dark future. Or not, depending on whether or not you believe we are actually living in a computer simulation already.

Ernest Cline’s second book, Armada , is almost as wonderful as his first book, Ready Player One . While plenty of folks on Amazon are giving it mediocre ratings, I think it’s because they don’t understand what Cline really did here. Both books are scifi. Both books are heavily gamer influenced. Each moves fast. However RPO is complicated while Armada is straightforward. And that’s important, since RPO is missing the majority of self-referential human subtext – ala Lost – that Armada is filled with. The DHARMA Initiative has nothing on the Earth Defense Alliance. I mean, c’mon, even the EDA logo kicks DHARMA’s logo lameness. ...