This is unsurprising, as Wade's car in RP1, ECTO-88, was a mashup of these four vehicles.ĮCTO-88 is also the name of the film series Wade is now directing, a crossover of those four movies featuring VR facsimiles of the original actors. Wade kills time by playing an Indiana Jones game for a while with some conventional VR glasses, then takes a jaunt out to his garage, which has replicas of the cars from Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, Knight Rider, and Buckaroo Banzai. He makes a Wayne's World reference for no reason, and then starts Wade's morning routine, playing some Talking Heads (I swear to God, Cline, you'd better not ruin Talking Heads for me) and giving him the headlines. We're introduced to Wade's virtual assistant, Max. But Wade feels the world has changed him, and he's alone in the mansion, aside from his cook and security team. We get some notes about how the whole world has been reshaped around the events of the previous book: the hotel where he stayed is a tourist attraction now, as is a VR recreation of the slums where he used to live. Wade is depressed, and stares morosely at the skyline. I really am trying to scale back the small-potatoes snark for these pieces, but the book is not making it easy for me. The book even says he wakes up "like Marty McFly". Wade wakes up in his woodland mansion - Halliday's old mansion - overlooking Columbus, to that song from Back to the Future, playing on the radio from Back to the Future, at the same time that it played in Back to the Future.
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