At once wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, READY PLAYER ONE is a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debut—part quest novel, part love story, and part virtual space opera set in a universe where spell-slinging mages battle giant Japanese robots, entire planets are inspired by Blade Runner, and flying DeLoreans achieve light speed.
It’s the year 2044, and the real world is an ugly place.
Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes his grim surroundings by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia that lets you be anything you want to be, a place where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets.
And like most of humanity, Wade dreams of being the one to discover the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this virtual world. For somewhere inside this giant networked playground, OASIS creator James Halliday has hidden a series of fiendish puzzles that will yield massive fortune—and remarkable power—to whoever can unlock them.
For years, millions have struggled fruitlessly to attain this prize, knowing only that Halliday’s riddles are based in the pop culture he loved—that of the late twentieth century. And for years, millions have found in this quest another means of escape, retreating into happy, obsessive study of Halliday’s icons. Like many of his contemporaries, Wade is as comfortable debating the finer points of John Hughes’s oeuvre, playing Pac-Man, or reciting Devo lyrics as he is scrounging power to run his OASIS rig.
And then Wade stumbles upon the first puzzle.
Suddenly the whole world is watching, and thousands of competitors join the hunt—among them certain powerful players who are willing to commit very real murder to beat Wade to this prize. Now the only way for Wade to survive and preserve everything he knows is to win. But to do so, he may have to leave behind his oh-so-perfect virtual existence and face up to life—and love—in the real world he’s always been so desperate to escape.
A world at stake.
A quest for the ultimate prize.
Are you ready?
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Labyrinth the movie!!!!!! I love how David Bowie looks in the film!!!! XD In fact David Bowie is my fav thing of the 80s!
the 1980’s fashion
The kids TV shows: Fraggle Rock, Smurfs, Punky Brewster, etc. 🙂
I like some of the great 80s movies like Star Wars and The Breakfast Club…
A Light in the Attic by Shel Siverstein, and the music!
The music!!
80’S SONGS!!!
Hmm all the kid’s tv shows were pretty awesome and the clothes and hair styles were pretty amusing too : )
Ferris Bueller. Love it.
ET
ET
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Breakfast Club, A Light In The Attic…
all the Corey’s.
movies and tv shows
The Breakfast Club
Oh, it’s so hard. Labyrinth. Back to the Future. Ghostbusters. Ninja Turtles. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. ARGH I CAN’T PICK JUST ONE.
John Hughes.
80s music is the best!
The Breakfast Club movie!
The video games by far.
The tv shows, like the Cosby show, and the movies! Some of the most original movies were made in that decade.
The great music.
music, games, and movies nothing better then the 80’s
Definitely the music! 80s music is just so upbeat and happy.
The music!
Labyrinth (and the Dark Crystal–Jim Henson was AMAZING).
It would have to be the music! 🙂
The awesome music, Labyrinth, Ninja Turtles, the crazy clothes…oh, I can’t decide! …Labyrinth! Labyrinth is my favorite 80s thing!
Without a doubt, hair crimpers! Yes, I admit, I had one. It made me look ridiculous but that didn’t stop me from using it! 🙂
The Goonies and Gremlins.
the great music
Sweet Valley High books!!
The great movies and music
Great movies and music
david bowie and queen!!
Monty Python of course!
Movies – ET, Star Wars
Computer, walkman