Description
Ready Player One is a 2011 science fiction novel of the debutant American novelist Ernest Cline. At once wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, Ready Player One is 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.
The story, set in a dystopia in 2045, follows protagonist Wade Watts on his search for an Easter egg in a worldwide virtual reality game, the discovery of which would lead him to inherit the game creator's fortune. It is the time when the real world is an ugly place to live. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes his grim surrounding 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, play and fall in love on any of 10,000 planets.
He dreams of being the one to discover the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this virtual world that OASIS creator James Halliday has hidden. It is a series of fiendish puzzles that will yield massive fortune and remarkable power- to whoever can unlock them. The riddles are ciphered in the pop culture he loved, that of the late 20th century. And, then Wade stumbles upon the first puzzle and 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.
Cline sold the rights to publish the novel in June 2010, in a bidding war to the Crown Publishing Group (a division of Random House). The book was published on August 16, 2011. An audiobook was released the same day; it was narrated by Wil Wheaton, who was mentioned briefly in one of the chapters.
Reception
In 2012, the book received an Alex Award from the Young Adult Library Services Association division of the American Library Association and won the 2011 Prometheus Award. It was 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
"I dare you not to fall in love with Ready Player One. And I mean head over heels in love--the way you fall for someone who is smart, feisty, and who can effortlessly finish your favorite movie lines, music lyrics, or literature quotes before they come out of your mouth."-- Daniel H. Wilson (New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse)
Adaptation
A film adaptation, in which screenplay was written by Cline and Zak Penn and directed by Steven Spielberg, was released on March 29, 2018. A sequel, Ready Player Two, was released on November 24, 2020.
About the Author
Ernest Christy Cline (born March 29, 1972, in Ohio) is an American science-fiction novelist, slam poet, screenwriter, and full-time geek. He is an internationally best-selling author. His books have been published in over fifty countries and have spent more than 100 weeks on The New York Times Best Sellers list. He wrote the novels Ready Player One, Armada, and Ready Player Two and co-wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of Ready Player One, directed by Steven Spielberg.
He lives in Austin, Texas with his family, a time-traveling DeLorean, and a large collection of his classic video games. Cline's all-time favorite video game is Black Tiger, which figures prominently in the plot of Ready Player One.
In 2016, he got married to a poet/nonfiction writer Cristine O'Keefe Aptowicz and they have two daughters.
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Rating: 4.7/5
Author: Ernest Cline
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Publishing Date: August 16, 2011 (first edition)
Edition Language: English
Genre: Humorous Science Fiction, Hard Science Fiction, Dystopian Fiction
ISBN-10: 030788743X
ISBN-13: 978-0307887436
Pages: 384 (Hardcover)
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