Fanboys Screenwriter Ernest Cline Kicks off Ready Player One novel at Comic-Con International with Speculative Fiction Panel and Joust Arcade Game Competition

New York, NY (PRWEB) June 23, 2011

Ernest Cline, screenwriter of the cult favorite movie, Fanboys, comes to Comic-Con International (http://www.comic-con.org) this July to introduce fans to his new novel, Ready Player One (Crown Books, on-sale: August 16th). Warner Brothers has already snapped up film rights to the novel after a heated bidding war (http://bit.ly/aFMGDb) and pre-publication buzz is growing as critics like Mark Frauenfelder from Boing Boing hail Ready Player One as ?my mind-blowing science fiction novel for the 2010s." (http://bit.ly/lg1QgU)

Set in a near-future world, Ready Player One centers on outcast Wade Watts, who escapes from his bleak surroundings by logging into a globally networked virtual utopia known as the OASIS. When the eccentric billionaire who created the OASIS dies, he offers up his vast fortune as the prize in an elaborate treasure hunt. Along with gamers from around the world, Wade joins the adventure, and quickly finds himself pitted against ruthless competitors who will do anything, in the OASIS or the real world, to reach the treasure first. It?s the ultimate wish fulfillment story, and paints a picture of our world changed drastically by the future of social networking years after Facebook (http://on.fb.me/iqG9bG).

Ready Player One is at once a remarkable sci-fi thriller and a brilliantly strange love letter to pop cuture, featuring giant robot battles, light-speed traveling DeLoreans, entire planets inspired by classic video arcades, and a plot that revolves around such esoterica as Cap-n Crunch commercials and John Hughes movies (http://www.ernestcline.com/blog/).

On Sunday, July 24th at Comic-Con International, fans will have a chance to meet Cline in person as he discusses Ready Player One at the ?Speculative Fiction: Space Odyssey, Alien Encounters and Other Worlds? panel (12:00-1:00 pm, Room: 25ABC) along with bestselling science fiction and fantasy writers Greg Bear (Hull Zero Three), Vernor Vinge (A Fire Upon the Deep), James S.A.Corey (Leviathan Wakes), Gini Koch (The Alien/Katherine ?Kitty? Katt series), Timothy Zahn (Star Wars: Choice of One), Kirsten Imani Kasai (Tattoo), and David S. Goyer & Michael Cassutt (Heaven?s Shadow).

Says Cline: ?To be on the panel with legendary authors like Zahn, Vinge, and Bear and the rest of this group is an amazing honor. It will be fun to try and explain to everyone at the panel what people mean when they say that Ready Player One is a mix of Willy Wonka, The Matrix, and Avatar all rolled into one. Comic-Con will also give me a great excuse to show off pictures of my new DeLorean.? (http://imdb.to/ai5Bg3, http://imdb.to/9tnLyb, http://www.avatarmovie.com/)

Fans can also catch Ernie wielding a joystick at a Joust arcade game at the Random House booth (#1515) as he does combat against other con attendees to defeat groups of enemy knights riding buzzards. The Joust tournament is open to all con attendees, who will have a chance at winning different prizes (http://bit.ly/fCHSKF).

To find out more about Ernest Cline and why beloved authors like Charlaine Harris, Terry Brooks, Patrick Rothfuss, and Daniel H. Wilson are all huge fans of Ready Player One, go to http://www.readyplayerone.com

For media inquiries and to set up interviews with Ernest Cline at Comic-Con International, please contact: Elena Stokes, Founding Partner, Wunderkind PR, elena(at)wunderkind-pr(dot)com; 917.887.0784

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DressesShop.com Launches 'Create A Video to Win A $300 Dress' Competition & 84 Winners will be Produced in October, 2011

New York, NY (PRWEB) October 03, 2011

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Keeping Up with Competition and Being in the Right Place with Hyundai at Global Challenge

Australia (PRWEB) April 8, 2010

Documentary maker Tony Wilson plays an important, if not speedy, role plodding behind the Hyundai Team R during Global Challenge 2009. We all know the feeling of being engaged in a frantic and desperate game of catch up. It's a sensation documentary maker Tony Wilson is all too accustomed to after the Australian spent time tracking the Hyundai Team R across the Global Challenge race in Australia, late 2009.

Wilson, who was with the team filming a documentary on the ups and downs of the 7 stage, 3,147 kilometre race from Darwin to Adelaide, tracked the team down at stage 6 of the contest arriving to meet them "just in the nick of time to be too late."

Following in Hyundai Team R's dust, Wilson was, however, in the right place to play a key part, finding the fuel logs, something the team had forgotten and was in badly need of. The Global Challenge is a competition between the world's green energy vehicles, with the winner measured on fuel consumption and efficiency.

Wilson's role in picking up the fuel logs was an important one as the team went on to victory in the race's SUV category with an outstanding fuel consumption rate of 5.1L/100km, consuming just 60.46 litres of diesel fuel and a low 137.67 grams of CO2 per kilometre over the 3,147 km's distance.

So the moral of the story? If there is one, it would be that the Hyundai Santa Fe R Diese can give you the superb, eco-friendly performance but it won't remember all your documents for you.

Wilson was just proud to have played his part, phoning the Hyundai Team R to let them know he was on his way, following behind them yet again.

Follow Tony Wilson behind the scenes for more confusion, chaos and achievement as the Hyundai Santa Fe Team R makes its progress on the Darwin-Adelaide transcontinental Global Green Challenge at "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKxAGv7XGj0&feature=youtube_gdata".

About Hyundai

Hyundai Motor Company Australia

Established in 1967, the Hyundai Automotive Group is the world's fifth largest and fastest growing major automotive manufacturer. Hyundai Motor Company Australia Pty Ltd (HMCA) was established on October 1st, 2003 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Hyundai Motor Company. The award-winning range of Hyundai vehicles continues to set segment and industry benchmarks in value, quality and safety, with innovations such as ESP Stability Program and Australia's first five-year warranty with unlimited kilometres.

2008 marked Hyundai Motor Company Australia's entrance into the Light Commercial Vehicle market in Australia. For more information visit: "http://www.hyundai.com.au"

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