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 10,000 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 20th 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?
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