Ready player one

Format:

Book

Title:

Ready player one

Author:

Cline, Ernest author

ISBN:

9780804190138

9780525614999

Edition:

First paperback movie tie-in edition.

Publication:

New York : Broadway Books, 2018.

Physical Description:

374, 13 pages ; 21 cm

General Note:

Includes excerpt from "Armada."

Summary:

Immersing himself in a mid-twenty-first-century technological virtual utopia to escape an ugly real world of famine, poverty, and disease, Wade Watts joins an increasingly violent effort to solve a series of puzzles by the virtual world's creator.

Subject(s):

Shared virtual environments -- Fiction.

Regression (Civilization) -- Fiction.

Virtual reality -- Fiction.

Utopias -- Fiction.

Puzzles -- Fiction.

Easter eggs (Computer programs) -- Fiction.

Treasure troves -- Fiction.

Genre:

Holds:

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Summary

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Now a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg.

"Enchanting . . . Willy Wonka meets The Matrix ."-- USA Today * "As one adventure leads expertly to the next, time simply evaporates."-- Entertainment Weekly

A world at stake. A quest for the ultimate prize. Are you ready?

In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the OASIS, a vast virtual world where most of humanity spends their days.

When the eccentric creator of the OASIS dies, he leaves behind a series of fiendish puzzles, based on his obsession with the pop culture of decades past. Whoever is first to solve them will inherit his vast fortune--and control of the OASIS itself.

Then Wade cracks the first clue. Suddenly he's beset by rivals who'll kill to take this prize. The race is on--and the only way to survive is to win.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Entertainment Weekly * San Francisco Chronicle * Village Voice * Chicago Sun-Times * iO9 * The AV Club

"Delightful . . . the grown-up's Harry Potter." -- HuffPost

"An addictive read . . . part intergalactic scavenger hunt, part romance, and all heart." --CNN

"A most excellent ride . . . Cline stuffs his novel with a cornucopia of pop culture, as if to wink to the reader." -- Boston Globe

"Ridiculously fun and large-hearted . . . Cline is that rare writer who can translate his own dorky enthusiasms into prose that's both hilarious and compassionate." --NPR

"[A] fantastic page-turner . . . starts out like a simple bit of fun and winds up feeling like a rich and plausible picture of future friendships in a world not too distant from our own." -- iO9

Author Notes

Ernest Cline is an American screenwriter and novelist. He was born in 1972 and grew up in rural Ohio.

In 1998, Cline wrote a screenplay entitled, Fanboys, about the craze surrounding the prequels to the Star Wars movies. Over a decade later, the movie was finally released in 2009. However, creative differences and his dissatisfaction with the final edit, led Cline to quit screenwriting and write a novel. That novel, based on an idea he had been considering for years, became the New York Times Bestseller, Ready Player One. His second novel, Armada released in 2015 also became a New York Times Bestseller.

He made the Hollywood Reporter's 'Most Powerful Authors' 2016 list, entering at number 12.

(Bowker Author Biography)