Ready Player One: The global bestseller and now a major Steven Spielberg movie

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Wade is the embodiment of me as a teenager,” Cline admits. “The structure of Ready Player One was a fun way for me to take all of the useless movie and video-game trivia you amass if you’re a geek and somehow make it valuable – the key to a vast fortune, which it has proven to be for me.” 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). Since the contest was announced, no one has made any meaningful progress. Gunters are OASIS users who have not given up on finding Halliday’s Easter egg. Wade’s online avatar, Parzival, and Wade’s friend Aech spend almost all of their time looking for clues.

Wade escapes and moves to Columbus, Ohio (hometown of both GSS and IOI), where he assumes the pseudonym Bryce Lynch and living in an anonymous apartment designed for hardcore OASIS users. He begins a wary friendship with Art3mis, but when he asks her out, she declines. Wade must play another vintage video game, Tempest, while the “whole world” watches. He eventually achieves the highest score and is instantly transported into the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which he reenacts with joyful ease. Wade then appears in a simulation of Halliday’s office, and realizes that the Easter egg must be hidden in this room. After several tries, he manages to log onto Halliday’s computer and retrieves the egg. Halliday appears and tells him that he is now in charge of OASIS, that his avatar is immortal, and that he can have anything he wants. Wade kills the remaining Sixers and resurrects Art3mis, Aech, and Shoto’s avatars. Wade sets up shop on an asteroid on Sector Fourteen, which he has bought and named Falco. He has been living in Columbus for five months, and it has been eight weeks since he last spoke to Art3mis. He and Aech are no longer friends, although he has managed to strike up a friendship with Daito and Shoto. Using his fake identity, he has also managed to get a job doing low-level OASIS technical support. One day, at the end of a shift, he discovered that Art3mis has obtained the Jade Key.Newitz, Annalee (August 16, 2011). "Read the first two chapters of Ernest Cline's new novel, Ready Player One". gizmodo.com . Retrieved April 16, 2018. Baker-Whitelaw, Gavia (March 14, 2018). "Why the internet is so ready to hate 'Ready Player One' ". The Daily Dot . Retrieved June 7, 2023. You want to accept Anorak's Invitation. Trust me. -". wilwheaton.net. August 15, 2011 . Retrieved February 7, 2017. 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 Crown Publishing Group (a division of Random House). [1] The book was published on August 16, 2011. [2] An audiobook was released the same day; it was narrated by Wil Wheaton, who was mentioned briefly in one of the chapters. [3] [4] Ch. 20 In 2012, the book received an Alex Award from the Young Adult Library Services Association division of the American Library Association [5] and won the 2011 Prometheus Award. [6] Ernie Cline Reportedly Writing Ready Player One Sequel". slashfilm.com. January 16, 2015 . Retrieved May 2, 2017.

Do you think the contest in the novel could really be solved by one person working entirely alone? What are the advantages or disadvantages of working as a team? In the year 2045, climate change, war and poverty have ruined most of Earth’s societies. Most people find escape and relief in the OASIS, a multiplayer online game with thousands of different locations, including games, online shopping, and even a thriving school system. Most people in the world have OASIS accounts, as there are no recurring fees and it offers an escape from the real world. The creator of the OASIS, James Halliday, has left a contest that will transfer the ownership of the OASIS and its parent company to whoever finds his Easter egg. Since the company is worth billions of dollars, many users have been trying to figure out the clues that lead to Halliday’s Easter egg for years. Wade named his OASIS avatar Parzival, but at school he must use his real name. Wade is not looking forward to graduating; he doesn’t have enough money to attend college, so his only option is to become a full-time gunter. In sixth grade he transferred to an OASIS school on the planet Ludus, where all OASIS schools are located.Ernest Cline: It might be because young readers have all been raised in a world filled with high technology, just like the characters in the book. People born during the last two decades have grown up with the Internet and handheld computers. Most of their toys contain microchips, their video games have always looked incredibly real, and they’ve never known a world without mobile phones. They’ve also grown up in the aftermath of 9/11 and the global economic collapse. For all of these reasons, I think the world described in Ready Player One is very familiar to them, and that helps them relate to the characters in it. Young readers have also lived through endless reruns and reboots of ’80s movies and TV shows, so many of the touchstones of that decade are still familiar to them, even if they didn’t experience them firsthand. The villains blow up the trailer park where the protagonist's aunt lives, but the protagonist learns the news second-hand. A secondary character is thrown out a window, but the act is not depicted.

Families can talk about making predictions of the future based on current trends. Does the setting of the book seem plausible? What assumptions is the author making about changes in politics and economics between now and 2044?Ready Player —One Author Ernest Cline Gives Away a DeLorean on X-Play". g4tv.com. August 30, 2012. Archived from the original on January 14, 2013 . Retrieved September 1, 2012. Did you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Violence & Scariness in your kid's entertainment guide. Get started Close Ready Player One is the best sci-fi book i've ever read, all the memorabilia really send me to the world you've made. Nolan Sorrento a.k.a. IOI-655321: The head of operations at Innovative Online Industries (IOI), the multinational corporation that serves as an Internet service provider for most of the world. Cline said that he named Sorrento after Nolan Bushnell, founder of the video game company Atari and said "Not that I think Nolan is a bad guy or anything. It’s meant as a subtle tribute!" [14]