Despite being neither a video/computer game
player nor quite the right age to have grown up with the popular culture of the
80s, I was fairly sure I’d
like this - and I did race through it after starting it in the Collingwood
library, with enough of the references being familiar enough to add a thick
layer to my enjoyment of Wade’s/Parzival’s quest to find the ‘egg’ hidden somewhere in the immersive OASIS
virtual world that has attained massive popularity in Cline’s quite dystopian version of the 2040s.
