![]() ![]() Again it's steeped in references to all that Cline loves, from Admiral Ackbar to ZZ Top. This month the 43-year-old releases his hugely anticipated second novel, Armada, a space opera-meets-thriller in which a hotshot gamer is enlisted to help save the Earth from extraterrestrials. Cline felt as if his head were exploding he's still piecing it back together. bought the film rights before it even came out, and earlier this year Steven Spielberg signed on to direct. Cline's 2011 debut-a dystopian coming-of-age virtual-reality quest brimming with '80s pop culture trivia, computer games, sci-fi references, and flying DeLoreans-struck an instant nerve with readers, gamers, geeks, and John Hughes fans everywhere. Today, of course, he's the bestselling author of the megahit Ready Player One, having parlayed those childhood passions into an adventure that would have blown his 12-year-old mind. A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, Ernest Cline was a nerdy kid "daydreaming of adventure" and geeking out to video games, science fiction, and films like Star Wars, E.T., and Back to the Future. ![]()
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