Wired.com presents The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley.

Hello and welcome to episode 304 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Today on the show we'll be discussing the new movie Ready Player 1,

based on the novel by Ernest Klein, who is our guest back in episode 158.

And this will involve spoilers for everything in the movie and everything in the book.

So just be aware of that.

And I'm joined by three guests.

So first up we've got Peter Rubin, who you may remember from our panel on Stranger Things

back in episode 216.

He's a senior editor at Wired and he's also the author of the new book, Future Presence,

how virtual reality is changing human connection, intimacy,

and the limits of ordinary life.

And you should all go check out his article,

Ready Player 1 is a virtually empty good time,

which is up now on wire.com.

So Peter, welcome to the show.

Great to be here.

The next up we've got Carol Pinchevsky,

who you may remember from our panel on arrival back in episode 2.30,

and it's our panel on Ghostbusters back in episode 2.30.

She's a writer for Blaster and Geek and

Sundry and has also been a writer for Forbes and MacLife. Her writing has

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