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Ready Player One
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Ready Player One Prebound - 2012

by Ernest Cline

At once wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debut that is part quest, part love story, and part virtual space opera set in a universe where spell-slinging mages battle giant Japanese robots and flying DeLoreans.


From the publisher

In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as theOASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them.
But when Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade's going to survive, he'll have to win and confront the real world he's always been so desperate to escape."

Details

  • Title Ready Player One
  • Author Ernest Cline
  • Binding Prebound
  • Pages 374
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Perfection Learning
  • Date 2012-03
  • ISBN 9781627655408 / 1627655409
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.7 x 4.9 x 1 in (19.56 x 12.45 x 2.54 cm)
  • Reading level 990
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

ERNEST CLINE has worked as a short-order cook, fish gutter, plasma donor, elitist video store clerk, and tech support drone. His primary occupation, however, has always been geeking out, and he eventually threw aside those other promising career paths to express his love of pop culture fulltime as a spoken word artist and screenwriter. His 2009 film" Fanboys," much to his surprise, became a cult phenomenon. These days Ernie lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, their daughter, and a large collection of classic video games.READY PLAYER ONEis his first novel."