Episode 66
66: Regular People Like Us
"Ready Player One"
The Incomparable Mothership · The Incomparable
November 14, 20111h 0m
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Show Notes
Ernest Cline’s “Ready Player One” is a sci-fi novel that’s chock full of references to 1980s culture. But is it a good book, or are the references all that it’s got going for it? What will John Hughes movies be like in the future? And what do Cline, P.G. Wodehouse, and Umberto Eco have in common?