Bridge to Bat City

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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.

With his signature deep dives into nerdy pop culture futures, Ready Player One author Ernest Cline is one of Austin's biggest-selling authors. 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. His book deal was brokered by manager and producing partner Dan Farah and literary agent Yfat Reiss Gendell. There, Opal bonds with Unclue Roscoe over music and befriends a group of orphaned, music-loving bats.His books have been published in over fifty countries and have spent more than 100 weeks on The New York Times Best Sellers list. 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! Said Little, Brown Books’ Editor-in-Chief Alvina Ling, “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! 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. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

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. 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. 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. 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. 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.

This is 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! 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. 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 Uncle Roscoe over music and befriends a group of orphaned, music-loving bats. 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.Cline’s Ready Player One is a dystopian, sci-fi novel about Wade Watts, a teenager in the year 2044. Ernie lives in Austin, Texas, with his family, a time-traveling DeLorean, and a large collection of classic video games. 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.

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To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. He 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. Cline followed up his debut novel with 2015's Armada, and a sequel, Ready Player Two, released in 2020.