Ernest Cline

No giant two-headed hermaphrodite demon unicorn avatars were allowed. Not on school grounds, anyway.

After that, going public with a clue became known as “pulling a Pendergast".

And then it finally happened. Right while I was sitting there daydreaming in Latin class.

Regardless, you’re a fellow hunter. And a clever one too, or you wouldn’t be standing here.

The Great Recession was now entering its third decade, and unemployment was still at a record high. Even the fast-food joints in my neighborhood had a two-year waiting list for job applicants.

You’d be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.

Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.

For the first time, I knew what is was to be a natural at something. To have a gift.

Some time later, she leaned over and kissed me. It felt just like all those songs and poems had promised it would. It felt wonderful. Like being struck by lightning.

Being human totally sucks most of the time.

A lot of kids owned their own interplanetary vehicles. School parking lots all over Ludus were filled with UFOs, TIE fighters, old NASA space shuttles, Vipers from Battlestar Galactica, and other spacecraft designs lifted from every sci-fi movie and TV show you can think of.