Ready Cliche One

Kawaljit Singh Bedi and Aqiul Colombowala join host Pranay Parab to talk about Ready Player One, a science fiction novel written by Ernest Cline. SPOILERS galore ahead.

• Audiobook experience
  
  
  • Will Wheaton’s narration
  
  


• Oasis, the all-encompassing VR game
  
  
  • Living in the stacks
  
  
  • Privacy
  
  
  • Omnipresent Internet access
  
  


• Wall of text early in the book


• Characters
  
  
  • James Halliday’s countless favourite games, books, TV shows
  
  
  • IOI and pantomime villains
  
  
  • Gunters vs. Sixers
  
  
  • High Fives
  
  
  • Sixers and a lack of subtlety
  
  


• Key #1
  
  
  • Ludus
  
  
  • Tomb of Horrors
  
  
  • Irok
  
  
  • Zork (play online)
  
  
  • MAME - emulator to play these games
  
  
  • Joust (play online)
  
  
  • ZX Spectrum
  
  
  • Lack of Nintendo references
  
  
  • IP nightmare
  
  
  • Age of Empires
  
  
  • Black Tiger (play online)
  
  
  • WarGames
  
  
  • FlickSync
  
  
  • Problem with accents
  
  


• Key #2
  
  
  • Love story
  
  
  • How do roads still work
  
  
  • Paranoid character
  
  
  • Social isolation
  
  
  • Artemis’ online persona, strong character
  
  
  • Other female character in the book
  
  
  • Gender neutral character
  
  


• Key #3
  
  
  • Castle Anorak
  
  
  • How to hack IOI
  
  
  • Events outside Oasis
  
  
  • L33t Hax0rz Warezhaus
  
  
  • Fear of death in the outside world
  
  
  • Massive battle
  
  
  • The role of eBay artifacts
  
  
  • Unnecessary explanations
  
  
  • Ending
  
  
  • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ending scene
  
  


• Expectations from the Ready Player One movie


• Shelf life of the novel

Music: Popular Potpourri and Path Complete from PPPPPP by Magnus “Souleye” Pålsson.