Well now I have to ask….what are your other reasons for thinking Ready Player One was bad? (I was underwhelmed by it and am bemused by the popularity, so I’m curious about other people’s experience of the book).

kierongillen:

It’s kind of a running joke now, with Jamie and me randomly tearing on RP1. Jamie read it on a plane, and was so annoyed, he forced me to read it. I was two seats behind him and the right, so I got to watch his responses live. There was an awesome bit where he literally shut the book and shook his head. I did pretty much the same thing, at the same point.

There’s various issues with it, but the core philosophical one would be is that its plot is the inverse of Rue Britannia’s. It’s a story where a Retromancer has enslaved an entire world and we’re meant to cheer and not think it’s fucking creepy.