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Ready Player One

byErnest Cline, Arnaud Regnauld

Who is this book for? Readers who enjoy science fiction, virtual reality, and adventure stories.

Topics Virtual realityQuestHumanityGood vs evilHigh stakesTechnologyAdventurePuzzlesDystopian societyFutureSurvivalTechnology and HumanityIdentity
MoodSuspenseful, Hopeful
HumorOccasional Humor
RomanceMajor Subplot
ViolenceModerate
THE BOOK BEHIND THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY STEVEN SPIELBERG 'Wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, Ready Player One is a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debut' Independent 'Part intergalactic scavenger hunt, part romance, and all heart' CNN 'Ernest Cline's novel deserves to be a modern classic' SciFiNow 'Gorgeously geeky, superbly entertaining, this really is a spectacularly successful debut' Daily Mail A world at stake. A quest for the ultimate prize. Are you ready? It's the year 2044, and the real world has become an ugly place. We're out of oil. We've wrecked the climate. Famine, poverty, and disease are widespread. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes this depressing reality by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia where you can be anything you want to be, where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets. And like most of humanity, Wade is obsessed by the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this alternate reality: OASIS founder James Halliday, who dies with no heir, has promised that control of the OASIS - and his massive fortune - will go to the person who can solve the riddles he has left scattered throughout his creation. For years, millions have struggled fruitlessly to attain this prize, knowing only that the riddles are based in the culture of the late twentieth century. And then Wade stumbles onto the key to the first puzzle. Suddenly, he finds himself pitted against thousands of competitors in a desperate race to claim the ultimate prize, a chase that soon takes on terrifying real-world dimensions - and that will leave both Wade and his world profoundly changed. Readers can't get enough of Ready Player One . . . ' THAT WAS SO TOTALLY AWESOME, WOW! ' 'This is an exciting story, especially for geeks, and the key word is FUN.' 'Ladies and gentlemen, from this day this book is my life and I will obsess over it constantly. ' 'I just kinda wanna cry right now. I'll have a proper review at some point, but I gotta let myself recover.' 'I had the feeling while reading this book that it was written expressly for me. This is my childhood captured.'

Language

en

Published on

01/01/2011

Pages

384

ISBN

9781446493830

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