READY PLAYER ONE
By: Cline, Ernest
At once wildly original and stuffed with
irresistible nostalgia, READY PLAYER ONE is a spectacularly genre-busting,
ambitious, and charming debut-part quest novel, part love story, and part
virtual space opera set in a universe where spell-slinging mages battle giant
Japanese robots, entire planets are inspired by Blade Runner , and flying
DeLoreans achieve light speed. It's the year 2044, and the real world is an ugly
place. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes his grim surroundings by
spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia that
lets you be anything you want to be, a place where you can live and play and
fall in love on any of ten thousand planets. And like most of humanity, Wade
dreams of being the one to discover the ultimate lottery ticket that lies
concealed within this virtual world. For somewhere inside this giant networked
playground, OASIS creator James Halliday has hidden a series of fiendish puzzles
that will yield massive fortune-and remarkable power-to whoever can unlock
them. For years, millions have struggled fruitlessly to attain this prize,
knowing only that Halliday's riddles are based in the pop culture he loved-that
of the late twentieth century. And for years, millions have found in this quest
another means of escape, retreating into happy, obsessive study of Halliday's
icons. Like many of his contemporaries, Wade is as comfortable debating the
finer points of John Hughes's oeuvre, playing Pac-Man, or reciting Devo lyrics
as he is scrounging power to run his OASIS rig. And then Wade stumbles upon the
first puzzle. Suddenly the whole world is watching, and thousands of competitors
join the hunt-among them certain powerful players who are willing to commit very
real murder to beat Wade to this prize. Now the only way for Wade to survive and
preserve everything he knows is to win . But to do so, he may have to leave
behind his oh-so-perfect virtual existence and face up to life-and love-in the
real world he's always been so desperate to escape. A world at stake. A quest
for the ultimate prize. Are you ready? TitlePeek
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