Ernest Cline Books

Easton Press Ernest Cline books:
Ready Player One - signed modern classic - 2016

 

 

Ready Player One
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 the OASIS. 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.

Ready Player One takes readers on a quest through a virtual world that is filled with pop culture references from the 1970s and ‘80s. Wade, or “Parzival” as he is known online, a sweet yet self-deprecating guy, is the unlikely hero of this story. Ernest Cline successfully combines a quest novel, love story, and virtual space opera into one exciting adventure. The reader will be taken into a universe filled with spell-slinging and giant Japanese robots, and along the way, Wade is faced with a decision of virtual world versus the real world. Should he forsake his perfect virtual world for the real life he so desperately wanted to escape?