Ready Player One: A Novel

ISBN-13: 9780307887443 Publisher: Random House Publishing Group Publication date: 06/05/2012 Series: Ready Player One Series , #1 Pages: 384 Sales rank: 5,353 Product dimensions: 5.10(w) x 7.60(h) x 1.10(d) Lexile: 970L (what's this?) #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Now a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg. “Enchanting . . . Willy Wonka meets The Matrix.”—USA Today • “As one adventure leads expertly to the next, time simply evaporates.”—Entertainment Weekly A world at stake. A quest for the ultimate prize. Are you ready? In 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. When the eccentric creator of the OASIS dies, he leaves behind a series of fiendish puzzles, based on his obsession with the pop culture of decades past. Whoever is first to solve them will inherit his vast fortune—and control of the OASIS itself.  Then Wade cracks the f