Is Ready Player One the Geek Book of the year?
^ McWeeny, Drew (August 16, 2011). "Review: 'Ready Player One' is the geek book event of the year: Ernie Cline's first novel offers nostalgia, the future, and a gamer's dream". HitFix. ^ "You want to accept Anorak's Invitation.
Is Ready Player One by Ernest Cline a book?
^ "Ready Player One by Ernest Cline". Random House Publishers. 2011. Retrieved September 12, 2011. ^ McWeeny, Drew (August 16, 2011). "Review: 'Ready Player One' is the geek book event of the year: Ernie Cline's first novel offers nostalgia, the future, and a gamer's dream".
What is the main conflict in Ready Player One?
What is the main conflict in Ready Player One? Wade's major conflict is to find all 3 keys before anyone else, especially a large corporation who has hired professional "gunters" to find the keys and to kill Wade so that they can take over the OASIS.
Will there be a Ready Player One 2?
A film adaptation, screenwritten by Cline and Zak Penn and directed by Steven Spielberg, was released on March 29, 2018. A sequel novel, Ready Player Two, was released on November 24, 2020, although to a less positive reception compared to its predecessor.
What year is Ready Player One book set in?
2045In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. 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.
What is the environment like in Ready Player One?
The world of 2045 is a bleak place: people are overcrowded and unemployed, and all places everywhere seems to suffering from an energy shortage. There's not even real food available anymore, as we learn when Mrs. Gilmore offers Wade "soy bacon [and] powdered eggs" (1.63).
Where does Wade Watts live in the book?
Wade Watts is an orphaned teenager living in the slums, or 'stacks', of Columbus, Ohio, with his Aunt Alice. In the OASIS, his avatar, Parzival, is best friends with Aech, a virtual mechanic.
What is the plot of Ready Player One?
In 2045 the planet is on the brink of chaos and collapse, but people find salvation in the OASIS: an expansive virtual reality universe created by eccentric James Halliday. When Halliday dies, he promises his immense fortune to the first person to discover a digital Easter egg that's hidden somewhere in the OASIS. When young Wade Watts joins the contest, he finds himself becoming an unlikely hero in a reality-bending treasure hunt through a fantastical world of mystery, discovery and danger.Ready Player One / Film synopsis
What is Wade's hideout?
Wade's Secret Hideout is the back cargo section of a partially destroyed van hidden among a junkyard of discarded cars on the perimeter of the Stacks. The front cab section had collapsed from the cars piled atop the van.
Where are the oasis servers located?
Columbus, OHWith Parzival's endorsement money, Wade is able to buy a bus ticket to Columbus, OH, which is where OASIS's servers are located.
Where does Wade move to?
Wade flees Oklahoma City in fear, moving to Columbus, Ohio, where he rents an apartment with money he received from endorsement deals that poured in after he found the Copper Key.
Does Parzival win the book?
Daito doesn't make it out alive in the book. Daito and Sho celebrate Parzival winning the contest at the movie's end alongside him and everyone's happy. But that isn't the case in the book.
Who died in Ready Player One book?
The death of Daito Sho's older brother is around for the final fight in the movie, but in the book, Daito never makes it off Frobozz, the planet with Zork. He's killed by Sixers IRL. They break into his 43rd-floor apartment and throw him off the balcony, making it look like a suicide.
What is the main conflict in Ready Player One?
Ready Player One's central conflict revolves around the mysterious location of James Halliday's Easter Egg, an object that once found will grant its discoverer a vast fortune and sole ownership of the OASIS, a virtual simulation that's also the world's most valuable resource.
Is H from Ready Player One a girl?
Helen Harris is one of the major character in Ernest Cline's Ready Player One....Trivia.Gallery | Quotes | RelationshipsOasis NameAechGenderFemaleOccupationGunterDebutReady Player One (film)4 more rows
What is the climax of Ready Player One?
Climax. The final battle. Sorrento and the Sixers have erected a force field above Castle Anorak, where the final gate is hidden. Wade, Aech, Art3mis, and Shoto invite the Gunter Clans to come to fight the Sixers with them.
Overview
Ready Player One is a 2011 science fiction novel, and the debut novel of American author Ernest Cline. 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. Cline sold the rights to publish the novel in June 2010, in a bidding war to the C…
Synopsis
In the 2040s, the world has been gripped by an energy crisis from the depletion of fossil fuels and the consequences of pollution, global warming and overpopulation, causing widespread social problems, poverty, and economic stagnation. To escape the decline their world is facing, people turn to the OASIS, a virtual reality simulator accessible by players using visors and haptic technology such as gloves. It functions both as an MMORPG and as a virtual world, with its curre…
Characters
• Wade Owen Watts a.k.a. Parzival: The viewpoint character, an orphan living with his aunt in the "stacks" surrounding metropolitan Oklahoma City. Wade names his OASIS character Parzival after the Arthurian knight involved in the quest for the holy grail. Wade's character was based on a mix of Cline as well as his geek friends.
• James Donovan Halliday a.k.a. Anorak: The creator of OASIS. His avatar's name is based on a British slang term for an obsessive geek. His character was initia…
Reception
Ready Player One was a New York Times bestseller. Among those praising the book were Entertainment Weekly, The Boston Globe, The A.V. Club, CNN.com, io9, and Boing Boing. USA Today wrote that the novel "undoubtedly qualifies Cline as the hottest geek on the planet right now." NPR said that the book was "ridiculously fun and large-hearted". Cline "takes a far-out premise and engages the reader instantly" with a "deeply felt narrative [that] makes it almost impossible to st…
Continuation
Lacero, a fan-fiction short story by Andy Weir, was published online in 2014, and later included in the 2016 limited edition of Ready Player One published by Subterranean Press.
It functions as a precursor to the main novel, and is considered canonical to the Ready Player One fictional universe.
As early as 2015, Cline had been reported to be working on a sequel to Ready Player One from s…
In other media
Ten months after the first edition's release, Cline revealed on his blog that Ready Player One itself contained an elaborately hidden Easter egg. This clue would form the first part of a series of staged video gaming tests, similar to the plot of the novel. Cline also revealed that the competition's grand prize would be a DeLorean. The Easter egg was a URL hidden in the book for anoraksalmanac.com. This was the first stage of the contest where the 2011 Atari 2600 game T…
See also
• Virtual reality in fiction
• LitRPG
Notes
• ^ The terms "Ch.." and "p." are shortened forms for chapter and page, and refer to chapters and pages in the Ready Player One novel in its first American edition.