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Ready Player One

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SKU:
1819
Condition:
Like New
Format:
Trade Paperback, 374 pages
Publisher:
Broadway Books, 2011
Edition:
First Edition Thus, Fiftieth Print
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline follows Wade Watts, a teenager surviving in a bleak near-future where most people escape harsh reality by living in the massively multiplayer virtual world OASIS. When Wade stumbles onto clues left behind by the game’s creator—who has promised an ultimate prize—he becomes entangled in a high-stakes quest that draws in rival players, corporate power, and a network of challengers who will do anything to control the outcome. As Wade races through OASIS’s ever-changing puzzles and classic pop-culture landscapes, the search for the “Easter egg” becomes more than a game: it’s a struggle over who gets to shape the future and what freedom really means when both the world outside and the world inside can be controlled.

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline follows Wade Watts, a teenager surviving in a bleak near-future where most people escape harsh reality by living in the massively multiplayer virtual world OASIS. When Wade stumbles onto clues left behind by the game’s creator—who has promised an ultimate prize—he becomes entangled in a high-stakes quest that draws in rival players, corporate power, and a network of challengers who will do anything to control the outcome. As Wade races through OASIS’s ever-changing puzzles and classic pop-culture landscapes, the search for the “Easter egg” becomes more than a game: it’s a struggle over who gets to shape the future and what freedom really means when both the world outside and the world inside can be controlled.

About the Author

Ernest Cline is an American novelist, screenwriter, and gamer whose work draws heavily on his lifelong love of video games, pop culture, and nostalgia for the 1980s. Before writing fiction, he built his career in entertainment, writing for film and television and establishing himself as a voice that speaks fluently to communities of gamers and genre fans. Cline’s best-known novel, Ready Player One, blends immersive virtual reality with fast-paced adventure and a dense web of references, turning fandom into story-driving fuel.

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