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Ernest Cline

American Novelist

Born: Mar 29, 1972

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I don't even think I was quite a year old. My mother was maybe seven months pregnant with my little brother. I was sucked out of her arms, and she landed 75 yards away from our trailer and had a ruptured disc. The tornado set me down on top of this pile of corrugated lumber and scrap metal. Ernest Cline

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I think it's a bit silly to brand the Internet as the 'downfall of youth.' Ernest Cline

Youth Internet Think Bit Silly Brand Downfall

I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80. Ernest Cline

First Spent Atari Computer Most Until Got Childhood

In a book, you can describe a scene and have any song you want playing on the radio and have any painting you want hanging on the wall. That was really freeing to me when I was writing 'Ready Player One.' I could throw in everything that I love. Ernest Cline

Once the people of planet Earth are all hanging out together online in a virtual world without any borders, I think it could change social networking, entertainment and even politics. Ernest Cline

I was 7 years old when the '80s began and 17 years old when they ended, so it was an incredibly formative decade for me. Ernest Cline

Me Old Incredibly Years Began Decade Ended Formative

I'm incredibly nostalgic for the '80s, because I think that's when Geek Culture really kicked in to high gear. Ernest Cline

Culture Think Incredibly Kicked High Gear Geek Because Nostalgic Really

I feel like I was hit by all of geek culture at once while I was growing up in the '70s and '80s. Saturday morning cartoons like 'Star Blazers' and 'Robotech.' Live action Japanese shows like 'Ultraman' and 'The Space Giants.' Ernest Cline

I was always obsessed with the 'Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai,' this weird little cult movie. There was this promised sequel before the end credits - 'Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League' - and I knew instinctively they were never going to make that movie, because the first one had made, like, $8 at the box office. Ernest Cline

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'Fanboys' was the first real screenplay that I ever wrote that was an original story with my own characters. Ernest Cline

First Own Characters My Own Wrote Real Screenplay Story Original Ever

I still tell people, 'I'm pretty sure I'm the only 'Star Wars' fan in history to ever break into Skywalker Ranch by writing a movie about breaking into Skywalker Ranch.' Ernest Cline

History People Writing Ranch Tell Pretty About Only Sure Still Movie Fan Break Breaking Wars Star Star Wars Ever

Whenever I watch 'The Matrix,' I think that it is possible, but I don't think that it's going to be machines enslaving humans. Ernest Cline

Think Machines Possible Matrix Going Whenever Watch Humans

I'm surprised that VR has come about so quickly. It's lucky I just happened to write a book imagining virtual reality right on the cusp of it actually happening. Ernest Cline

Reality Book Virtual Virtual Reality About Write Come Surprised Quickly Just Happened Happening Cusp Lucky Actually Right Imagining

VR really changes everything for flight because the old simulators for the PC were 2D, and you couldn't look around inside the cockpit and learn the controls or even track other planes through the cockpit. Ernest Cline

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I was standing on the shoulders of other science fiction writers like William Gibson, who had written 'Neuromancer' on a typewriter before home computers even really existed, and Neal Stephenson who wrote 'Snow Crash' in the early '90s and imagined an online virtual world before the birth of the modern Internet. Ernest Cline

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Growing up in rural Ohio, I knew my way around a double-wide pretty well. Ernest Cline

Way Rural Pretty Knew Well Around Up Ohio Growing Growing Up

I have such a vivid memory of seeing science fiction movies and going to the lobby and playing whatever the space games were, and imagine I was blowing up the Death Star. Ernest Cline

Death Science Memory Space Whatever Lobby Seeing Vivid Science Fiction Were Up Blowing Going Fiction Movies Games Star Playing Imagine

What's really astounding to me is a lot of the guys at Oculus VR and other companies who were creating VR tell me that 'Ready Player One' is one of their primary inspirations in getting into virtual reality. Ernest Cline

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