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Hopefully by now you’ve read my review of Ready Player One and picked up a copy of your own—but if not, why not hear it straight from the horse’s mouth?
The wife and I attended Ernie’s first book signing at Houston’s Murder By The Book on Monday and got a chance to talk with him about Ready Player One, Fanboys, and why only one man could perform the audiobook of Ready Player One: namely, Wil Wheaton (Ernie played a little of the audio at the event, and it looks like the wife wants a copy now. I’ve got a copy of the book, but as she put it: I don’t want to read it, I want Wil Wheaton to read it to me)!
For more info on Ready Player One, visit ReadyPlayerOne.com.
Fair Warning: Minor spoilers for Robopocalypse ahead. If you haven’t read it yet, check out my review here.
I love author signings. Getting a chance to hear an author speak and possibly interact with him/her always adds another layer of enjoyment to the book—one that you can’t get from Twitter or a YouTube interview.
So Wednesday night, I headed down to Houston’s Murder By The Book for the Daniel H. Wilson signing.
I’d seen through various online sources that Dr. Wilson grew up in the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma—but what I didn’t know was that parts of the book are modeled after his own life, and that of his family.
Through his studies (Wilson has a Ph.D in robotics), he’s actually been in a fully-automated car and worn a real-life exo-suit. We think of these things as science fiction, but most (if not all) of the robotics in Robopocalypse are things that are in prototype right now.
By far, the coolest thing I learned about Robopocalypse is that the spider-tanks in the story were modeled after experiences of Wilson’s own grandfather, who drove ahalf-track (half-tank, half-truck) in WWII. Putting parts of your own life in a book is fun, but honoring a relative—and a veteran, at that—is pretty awesome.
If you get a chance to go to a signing, do it. But if not, I’ve got you covered; Dr. Wilson was gracious enough to grant me an interview.
