Ready Player One#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 first clue. Suddenly he’s beset by rivals who’ll kill to take this prize. The race is on—and the only way to survive is to win. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Entertainment Weekly • San Francisco Chronicle • Village Voice • Chicago Sun-Times • iO9 • The AV Club “Delightful . . . the grown-up’s Harry Potter.”—HuffPost “An addictive read . . . part intergalactic scavenger hunt, part romance, and all heart.”—CNN “A most excellent ride . . . Cline stuffs his novel with a cornucopia of pop culture, as if to wink to the reader.”—Boston Globe “Ridiculously fun and large-hearted . . . Cline is that rare writer who can translate his own dorky enthusiasms into prose that’s both hilarious and compassionate.”—NPR “[A] fantastic page-turner . . . starts out like a simple bit of fun and winds up feeling like a rich and plausible picture of future friendships in a world not too distant from our own.”—iO9 |
Contents
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Chapter 0002 | 23 |
Chapter 0003 | 33 |
Chapter 0004 | 43 |
Chapter 0005 | 48 |
Chapter 0006 | 57 |
Chapter 0020 | 195 |
Chapter 0021 | 203 |
Chapter 0022 | 211 |
Chapter 0023 | 221 |
Chapter 0024 | 229 |
Chapter 0025 | 236 |
Chapter 0026 | 244 |
Chapter 0027 | 254 |
Chapter 0007 | 64 |
Chapter 0008 | 73 |
Chapter 0009 | 83 |
Chapter 0010 | 96 |
Chapter 0011 | 104 |
Chapter 0012 | 112 |
Chapter 0013 | 124 |
Chapter 0014 | 130 |
Chapter 0015 | 144 |
Chapter 0016 | 156 |
Level Two | 163 |
Chapter 0017 | 164 |
Chapter 0018 | 175 |
Chapter 0019 | 185 |
Level Three | 262 |
Chapter 0028 | 263 |
Chapter 0029 | 270 |
Chapter 0030 | 277 |
Chapter 0031 | 289 |
Chapter 0032 | 298 |
Chapter 0033 | 307 |
Chapter 0034 | 321 |
Chapter 0035 | 329 |
Chapter 0036 | 337 |
Chapter 0037 | 344 |
Chapter 0038 | 354 |
Chapter 0039 | 363 |
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