Bridge to Bat City

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The Austin author has just announced the release date for his debut children's novel, The Bridge to Bat City, set in Austin in the 1980s. In the meantime, he busied himself as a star of Austin's slam poetry scene, collecting some of his verses into a chapbook, The Importance of Being Ernest, in 2001, However, it was his debut novel Ready Player One that made him a household name, and it was adapted by Steven Spielberg in 2018. Cline’s Ready Player One is a dystopian, sci-fi novel about Wade Watts, a teenager in the year 2044.

But just as the farm is starting to feel like home, the bats’ cave is destroyed by a big mining company with its sights set on the farmland next. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his family, a time-traveling DeLorean, and a large collection of classic video games. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Yes, I was the editor of this book and perhaps biased, but I truly love this book and hope you love it as much as I do!But with people afraid of the bats and determined to get rid of them, it'll take a whole lot of courage to prove that this is where the bats--and Opal--belong. But with people afraid of the bats and determined to get rid of them, it’ll take a whole lot of courage to prove that this is where the bats — and Opal — belong. Ernie lives in Austin, Texas, with his family, a time-traveling DeLorean, and a large collection of classic video games. Cline is otherwise best known for penning the 2015 sci-fi novel Armada, which follows another teenage gamer who discovers that the alien-invasion-themed game he’s been playing is actually a simulator to prepare humanity for a real-world invasion. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA Enterprise and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. The publishing deal for The Bridge to Bat City was brokered by Cline's longtime representatives, manager/producing partner, Dan Farah, and literary agent Yfat Reiss Gendell. Both Armada and Ready Player Two have been optioned for film adaptations ( in Armada's case, three years before it was even published). Bridge to Bat City' follows Steven Spielberg adapting Cline’s 2011 dystopian, sci-fi novel about a teen's quest to win control over a virtual universe. A note to readers: Bold and uncensored, The Austin Chronicle has been Austin’s independent news source for over 40 years, expressing the community’s political and environmental concerns and supporting its active cultural scene.There, Opal bonds with Uncle Roscoe over music and befriends a group of orphaned, music-loving bats. Ernest Cline, the best-selling novelist who saw his popular first published book, Ready Player One, adapted by Steven Spielberg into a tentpole movie, has unveiled his debut kids novel, Bridge to Bat City. But just as the farm is starting to feel like home, the bats’ cave is destroyed by a big mining company that has its sights on the family’s land, as well.