Ernest Cline
Author of Ready Player One
About the Author
Ernest Cline is an American screenwriter and novelist. He was born in 1972 and grew up in rural Ohio. In 1998, Cline wrote a screenplay entitled, Fanboys, about the craze surrounding the prequels to the Star Wars movies. Over a decade later, the movie was finally released in 2009. However, creative show more differences and his dissatisfaction with the final edit, led Cline to quit screenwriting and write a novel. That novel, based on an idea he had been considering for years, became the New York Times Bestseller, Ready Player One. His second novel, Armada released in 2015 also became a New York Times Bestseller. He made the Hollywood Reporter's 'Most Powerful Authors' 2016 list, entering at number 12. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Ernest Cline
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Associated Works
Anime Impact: The Movies and Shows that Changed the World of Japanese Animation (2018) — Contributor — 43 copies, 2 reviews
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Cline, Ernest
- Legal name
- Cline, Ernest Christy
- Birthdate
- 1972-03-29
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Ashland, Ohio, USA
- Places of residence
- Austin, Texas, USA
- Occupations
- cook
store clerk
spoken word artist
screenwriter - Relationships
- Aptowicz, Cristin O'Keefe (wife)
- Agent
- Yfat Reiss-Gendell
- Short biography
- ERNEST CLINE is an internationally best-selling novelist, screenwriter, father, and full-time geek. He is the author of the novels Ready Player One and Armada and co-screenwriter of the film adaptation of Ready Player One, directed by Steven Spielberg. His books have been published in over fifty countries and have spent more than 100 weeks on The New York Times Best Sellers list. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his family, a time-traveling DeLorean, and a large collection of classic video games.
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Discussions
Ready Player Two in Science Fiction Fans (March 2022)
Ready Player One in Gamers (March 2019)
Ready Player One in The Green Dragon (July 2013)
Ready PLayer One {Spoilers Possible} in The Green Dragon (July 2012)
Chat about... Ready Player One by Ernest Cline in The SF&F Book Chat (February 2012)
Reviews
Armada: A Novel by Ernest Cline
Cute. It hast the 80's and 90's video game references and a twist, but the characters other than the main character and his father needed more development.
The book is probably a 3.5. It wasn't great but I don't think it warrants the negativity and vitriol other reviews suggest. It's a quick, mostly entertaining read - it's just a bit tedious in places and has a fairly predictable ending.
I chose the audio version of this and Wil Wheaton did a decent job narrating. I think I would have liked reading the book even less. I don't really care for dystopian themes, but I had already watched the movie and liked it and the audio book came highly recommended. I didn't play a lot of video games as a kid, but I did grow up in the 80's, so I got most of the references. The first half of the book dragged on for me, but the second half picked up and raised the rating for me just a bit.
Ready Player One is one of the greatest books I ever read. As such the sequel is likely disappoint. Cline's writing is still spellbinding and leads one wanting to turn the page. The sequel claims to start only a few days after the end of the previous, but so much of the world has changed, like Artimus now hating Z.
Cline tries to get the magic of Haladay's contest again in the quest for the siren's soul. But while Holiday's contest took years to complete, Anarch gives our protagonist only hours to get it done. The number of times that the characters feel free to joke and guess the outcome of an invent doesn't seem believable at a time they also are fighting for the survival of much of the human race with less than 12 hours to complete it.
That being said the story is still very good, and the "continue" section (e.g. epilogue) gives a great hop for the atheist as to a chance for eternal life. I try not to get my self-righteous Christian hat on.
Regardless I highly recommend this, but only after you've read the first, and feel free to skip the movie.… (more)
Cline tries to get the magic of Haladay's contest again in the quest for the siren's soul. But while Holiday's contest took years to complete, Anarch gives our protagonist only hours to get it done. The number of times that the characters feel free to joke and guess the outcome of an invent doesn't seem believable at a time they also are fighting for the survival of much of the human race with less than 12 hours to complete it.
That being said the story is still very good, and the "continue" section (e.g. epilogue) gives a great hop for the atheist as to a chance for eternal life. I try not to get my self-righteous Christian hat on.
Regardless I highly recommend this, but only after you've read the first, and feel free to skip the movie.… (more)
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- Rating
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