Bridge to Bat City

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His books have been published in over fifty countries and have spent more than 100 weeks on The New York Times Best Sellers list. Bridge to Bat City is the type of book I loved to read as a child; it’s a book about being an outsider—a weirdo, even! In Bridge to Bat City, inspired by stories he would tell his kids at bedtime, Ernie Cline has crafted an enchanting tale that weaves together fact and fiction set against the incredible backdrop of 1980s Austin, filled with a vibrant cast of characters, rich music history, activism and environmentalism, and bats! With his signature deep dives into nerdy pop culture futures, Ready Player One author Ernest Cline is one of Austin's biggest-selling authors. After losing her mother, 13-year-old Opal moves in with her uncle Roscoe on the family farm, and it’s there that she befriends a group of orphaned bats.

Cline earned his laurels as part of Austin's geek elite in the '90s with his buzzy script, Fanboys, which finally made it to the screen in 2009 in a version starring starring Jay Baruchel, Kristen Bell, Seth Rogen, and Danny Trejo. If Opal and the bats can fit in anywhere, it’s the nearby city of Austin, home to their favorite music and a host of wonderfully eccentric characters. There, Opal bonds with Unclue Roscoe over music and befriends a group of orphaned, music-loving bats. Inspiration for the novel stemmed from Cline’s longtime residency in Austin, TX, which is home to the world’s largest urban bat colony. If Opal and the bats can fit in anywhere, it's the nearby city of Austin, home to their favorite music and a host of wonderfully eccentric characters.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. This is a weird and wonderful “mostly true tall tale” about how a recently orphaned girl named Opal B Flats helped a family of displaced bats find a new home under the Congress Avenue Bridge in Austin, Texas.

Now he's stepping into his hometown's history for his debut children's novel, Bridge to Bat City, announced this morning.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 that has its sights on the family’s land, as well. Both Armada and Ready Player Two have been optioned for film adaptations ( in Armada's case, three years before it was even published).

Cline followed up his debut novel with 2015's Armada, and a sequel, Ready Player Two, released in 2020. The book appears to mark something of a departure for Cline from the work in the sci-fi realm for which he’s best known.Cline is best known for his debut novel Ready Player One — a beloved work of science fiction that follows 18-year-old Wade Watts as he looks to claim the fortune of a late video game creator by completing a quest to discover an Easter egg hidden within one of his virtual reality worlds. 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! Ernie lives in Austin, Texas, with his family, a time-traveling DeLorean, and a large collection of classic video games. 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.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. His book deal was brokered by manager and producing partner Dan Farah and literary agent Yfat Reiss Gendell.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. His first novel, Ready Player One, was a New York Times and USA Today bestseller, appeared on numerous “best of the year” lists, and is set to be adapted into a motion picture by Warner Bros. The kids book is described as a “mostly true tall tale” about a recently orphaned young girl named Opal B Flats who forms an unexpected friendship with a music-loving colony of bats and helps them find a new home against all odds. 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.