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Crown
August 2011
On Sale: August 16, 2011
384 pages
ISBN: 030788743X
EAN: 9780307887436
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Science Fiction | Fantasy
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.
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