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 and the game itself.

2011年8月16日 · Ernest Cline’s book Ready Player One is set in 2044, and the world is in a very sorry state. To escape the horrors of his reality and to find adventure and learning, a teenage boy, Wade Watts/Parzival logs into a computer system, the Oasis.

2012年6月5日 · Drawing on everything from Back to the Future to Roald Dahl to Neal Stephenson's groundbreaking Snow Crash, Cline has made Ready Player One a geek fantasia, '80s culture memoir and commentary on the future of online behavior all at once.”

In “Level One,” Wade Watts describes his adventures trying to win Halliday’s contest. He is a high school student who lives in trailer park in Oklahoma City. Since he lives in poverty and has poor social skills, he dedicates his life to being a “gunter” (egg hunter).

Ready Player One is one of a large number of books that imagine an apocalyptic, dystopian landscape—often created by climate change, a global energy crisis, and widespread poverty—and which feature a young hero who possesses intelligence and …

2012年6月5日 · Drawing on everything from Back to the Future to Roald Dahl to Neal Stephenson's groundbreaking Snow Crash, Cline has made Ready Player One a geek fantasia, '80s culture memoir and commentary on the future of online behavior all at once.”

Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1) and Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, #2)

A book of ideas, a potboiler, a game-within-a-novel, a serious science-fiction epic, a comic pop culture mash-up–call this novel what you will, but Ready Player One will defy every label you try to put on it.

2011年8月16日 · Like nearly everyone on the depleted, depressed Planet Earth, high school student Wade Watts dreams of winning the untold billions at stake in a contest devised by James Halliday, late inventor of OASIS, the immersive virtual utopia that allows anyone to plug in and leave the real world behind.

Ready Player One Summary Ernest Cline. Cite This Page Menu. Contents; Summary; Chapter Summaries Chapter Summaries Prologue; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapters 3-4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapters 10-11; Chapters 12-14; Chapters 15-16; Chapters 17-19; Chapters 20-21; Chapters 22-25; Chapters 26-27;