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Kawaljit Singh Bedi and Aqiul Colombowala join host Pranay Parab to talk about Ready Player One, a science fiction novel written by Ernest Cline. SPOILERS galore ahead.

  • Audiobook experience
    • Will Wheaton’s narration
    • Oasis, the all-encompassing VR game
      • Living in the stacks
      • Privacy
      • Omnipresent Internet access
      • Wall of text early in the book
      • Characters
        • James Halliday’s countless favourite games, books, TV shows
        • IOI and pantomime villains
        • Gunters vs. Sixers
        • High Fives
        • Sixers and a lack of subtlety
        • Key #1
          • Ludus
          • Tomb of Horrors
          • Irok
          • Zork (play online)
          • MAME - emulator to play these games
          • Joust (play online)
          • ZX Spectrum
          • Lack of Nintendo references
          • IP nightmare
          • Age of Empires
          • Black Tiger (play online)
          • WarGames
          • FlickSync
          • Problem with accents
          • Key #2
            • Love story
            • How do roads still work
            • Paranoid character
            • Social isolation
            • Artemis’ online persona, strong character
            • Other female character in the book
            • Gender neutral character
            • Key #3
              • Castle Anorak
              • How to hack IOI
              • Events outside Oasis
              • L33t Hax0rz Warezhaus
              • Fear of death in the outside world
              • Massive battle
              • The role of eBay artifacts
              • Unnecessary explanations
              • Ending
              • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ending scene
              • Expectations from the Ready Player One movie
              • Shelf life of the novel

                • Music: Popular Potpourri and Path Complete from PPPPPP by Magnus “Souleye” Pålsson.

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