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] 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. Did you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Violence & Scariness in your kid's entertainment guide. Get started Close Lussier, Germain (March 21, 2016). "The Author of The Martian Wrote Ready Player One Fan Fiction, and Now It's Canon". gizmodo.com . Retrieved April 16, 2018. On June 9, 2016, Variety stated that Spielberg's regular collaborator John Williams was planning on composing the film's score. [47] However, scheduling conflicts with another Spielberg film, The Post, led to Spielberg signing Alan Silvestri for the score.

Ernie Cline Reportedly Writing Ready Player One Sequel". slashfilm.com. January 16, 2015 . Retrieved May 2, 2017. Did you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Language in your kid's entertainment guide. Get started Close Did you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. Get started Close All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.”Contest Winners Level Up In The Ready Player One Easter Egg Hunt | Giant Freakin RobotGiant Freakin Robot". www.giantfreakinrobot.com. July 11, 2012 . Retrieved September 5, 2018. Wade receives an invitation to Morrow’s 73rd birthday party at the Distracted Globe, a zero-gravity dance club. He and Art3mis dance together, and he confesses that he is in love with her. Art3mis dismisses him, emphasizing that they don’t actually know each other in reality and that their relationship has led them to neglect the hunt. Suddenly, Sixers begin shooting up the club; Morrow vaporizes them and the party resumes, but Art3mis leaves. if your a horror, Sci-Fi, Action, Romance like me. then read this! I don't even care if your a kid. this book is for nerds, geeks and any body. the f word is said a lot, but I hate to break it to you, but your kids probably say the f word a lot to while playing video games. And the sex talk is kind of bad, but it's more ACTION then SEX. this book also has a lot of consumerism.

The Geek Genius Behind Ready Player One: An Interview With Ernest Cline". warpzoned.com. September 23, 2011 . Retrieved March 17, 2017. Cline worked with co-screenwriter Zak Penn and with Spielberg to create a modified set of trials for the film, including a new opener: an astonishingly vivid, high-speed car race through a virtual city. The second trial still involves Wade visiting an Oasis-based reproduction of a classic movie, but it’s not WarGames. Instead, he has to navigate through a terrifying virtual version of The Shining’s Overlook hotel, complete with spooky twins and an elevator full of blood. “WarGames didn’t seem quite right because, although it’s a great film, it’s not that visually arresting. We wanted a movie with a unique and familiar environment,” says Cline. “We made a list of possibilities, and when Steven saw The Shining [on it] he lit up. That was one of the most fun [things about] of working on the adaptation – cooking up this Shining funhouse tribute, and getting to see my hero geek out.” They're not eggs in your typical sense of the word. He's looking for Easter Eggs within the programming. (Again... Not those types of Easter eggs.) It was left inside the virtual world by OASIS's creator and whoever finds it inherits a massive fortune. Art imitating life. Like Wade in the novel, Ernest Cline drives a vintage 1980s DeLorean sports car in real life.The OASIS is shaped like a Rubik’s Cube, with 27 cubed “sectors.” Travelling across one sector at the speed of light is expensive and takes 10 hours. Avatars can gain experience points—XPs—by completing quests and fighting NPC villains. However, these don’t exist on Ludus. With difficulty Wade has managed to raise his avatar to the third level by briefly hitching rides to other planets and earning XPs there; however, no gunter is considered serious until they reach the tenth level. a b "How Lord British Inspired Anorak | Ernie's Blog". Ernestcline.com. October 19, 2011 . Retrieved July 7, 2012. Ogden "Og" Morrow a.k.a. The Great and Powerful Og: Co-creator of the OASIS and best friend of James Halliday. His appearance and personality are described in the book as being "a cross between Albert Einstein and Santa Claus". Ogden's character and relationship with Halliday were inspired by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, with Morrow being more like Jobs as a "charismatic tech leader", [12] [13] while his avatar's name is inspired by the Wizard of Oz.

Contest Winners Level Up In The Ready Player One Easter Egg Hunt". Giant Freakin Robot. July 11, 2012. 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. Fleming, Michael (June 18, 2010). "Warner Bros and De Line Pictures Win Book Auction For 'Ready Player One' ". Deadline.com . Retrieved March 25, 2015. Some flirting and speculation of what the real bodies of the players might look like. In one chapter, there's mention of blow-up sex dolls, online brothels, and masturbation. 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.”What are the advantages and the disadvantages of having so much information available 24/7? How might near-ubiquitous social media affect our culture? Vanderbilt, Mike (March 30, 2018). "Exclusive: It's game over when RiffTrax alums take on Ernest Cline and Ready Player One". News. 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.

Couch, Aaron (July 8, 2020). " 'Ready Player One' Book Sequel Sets November Publishing Date". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved July 8, 2020.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] PRH: In Ready Player One, you incorporate literally hundreds of pop culture references, many of them in ways that are integral to the book’s plot. What’s the first thing you remember geeking out over? You want to accept Anorak's Invitation. Trust me. -". wilwheaton.net. August 15, 2011 . Retrieved February 7, 2017.