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I loved the book and can’t wait for the movie. More below.
One response to “Ready Player One”
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I highly recommend the book. It easily enters my High Five scoreboard with Snow Crash, Hitchhiker’s Guide, Ringworld and Ender’s Game.
The metaverse creator in Ready Player One is Halliday:
"a god among geeks, a nerd über-deity on the level of Gygax, Garriott and Gates." That floored me. Gygax – of course, for D&D. Gates, well, not sure. But Garriott… Major props for that alliterative troika. I first met Garriott when we were teenagers; he was the programmer behind Ultima, the cool cat who called himself Lord British. Here are some reunion memories: 
Garriott could have been Halliday, with his trove of clues… And just like Perzival in the book, I felt compelled to take a screen shot of his early work…
Even today, his “Britannia Manor” boasts an observatory, secret passageways and dungeons.I wrote that in 2014 when I finished the book, along with a Rush 2112 of other thoughts, and then had dinner with Garriott in 2016, and he confirmed that he was the inspiration for Halliday.
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