Fiction Craft Blog

Long before G.R.R. Martin’s take on dragons fanned the flames of controversy (Are they wyverns? Are they dragons? Do we need to know?),...

What if immersive virtual reality technologies existed and were really really good? Better than the real world, in fact? Ernest Cline's novel – awesome and icky in equal measure – explores a future world with dystopic elements, in which teams are hunting for easter eggs that Halliday, the inventor of this VR world, has embedded in the code. The story is told through the eyes of Wade Watts (online avatar: Parzival) – an orphaned teenager living in the ‘stacks’ in Ohio, the mid