It's really telling when an author uses 150 pages to stage the worldbuilding, then uses less than half of that setup throughout the story.Dopamine Fasting 2....

If you thought Ready Player One was bad, it gets worse.

Yes, there's a part two. The first few seconds of it made me laugh out loud.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KL7ythWXPw

  • cawsby [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Before Reddit, books were written about the stories published in the NYT and WaPo for a lot of writers.

    I can't find it right now, but there is a paper charting when certain technologies are mentioned like VR/fuzzy logic/rando tech of the day in literature, and the vast, vast majority aligned with the newspapers of record until the internet became big.