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Ernest Cline - Ready Player One (2nd Hand Paperback)
ISBN / GTIN-13 : 9780099560432
Synopsis
A world at stake. A quest for the ultimate prize. Are you ready?
It's the year 2044, and the real world has become an ugly place. We're out of oil. We've wrecked the climate. Famine, poverty, and disease are widespread.
Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes this depressing reality by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia where you can be anything you want to be, where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets.
And like most of humanity, Wade is obsessed by the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this alternate reality - OASIS founder James Halliday, who dies with no heir, has promised that control of the OASIS - and his massive fortune - will go to the person who can solve the riddles he has left scattered throughout his creation.
For years, millions have struggled fruitlessly to attain this prize, knowing only that the riddles are based in the culture of the late twentieth century. And then Wade stumbles onto the key to the first puzzle. Suddenly, he finds himself pitted against thousands of competitors in a desperate race to claim the ultimate prize, a chase that soon takes on terrifying real-world dimensions - and that will leave both Wade and his world profoundly changed.
Details
- Format : Standard 2nd Hand Paperback
- Condition : Very Good
- Category : Fiction - Science Fiction
- Published : 2011 (Arrow Books)
- ISBN : 9780099560432
- SKU : B000921
- PPC : SP400gm
- RRP : £7.99
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
External Reviews
"Enchanting, Willie Wonka meets The Matrix" - USA Today.
'Wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, Ready Player One is a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debut' - The Independent.
'Part intergalactic scavenger hunt, part romance, and all heart' - CNN.
'Ernest Cline's novel deserves to be a modern classic' - SciFiNow.
'Gorgeously geeky, superbly entertaining, this really is a spectacularly successful debut' Daily Mail.
The Author
Ernest Christy Cline is an American science fiction novelist, slam poet, and screenwriter. He wrote the novels Ready Player One, Armada, and Ready Player Two and co-wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of Ready Player One, directed by Steven Spielberg.Delivery & Postage
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