(Ebook) Ready Player One by Ernest Cline ISBN 9780307887443, 0307887448

(Ebook) Ready Player One by Ernest Cline ISBN 9780307887443, 0307887448

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."The pure, unfettered brain scream of a child of the 80s, like a dream my 13-year-old self would have had after bingeing on Pop Rocks and Coke… I couldn’t put it down."  -  Charles Ardai, Edgar Award-winning authorIt's the year 2044, and the real world is an ugly place. A world at stake. A quest for the ultimate prize. Are you ready? 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. “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 "Ready Player One expertly mines a copious vein of 1980s pop culture, catapulting the reader on a light-speed adventure in an advanced but backward-looking future. If this book were a living room, it would be wood-panelled. If it were shoes, it would be high tops. And if it were a song, well, it would have to be Eye of the Tiger. I really, really loved it."  -  Daniel H. Wilson, author of How to Survive a Robot Uprising