Publication dateAugust 16, 2011Media typePrint ( and ),Pages385Ready Player One is a 2011 novel, and the debut novel of American author. The story, set in a in 2044, follows protagonist Wade Watts on his search for an in a worldwide game, the discovery of which will 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 (a division of ).
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The book was published on August 16, 2011. An audiobook was released the same day; it was narrated by, who was mentioned briefly in one of the chapters. In 2012, the book received an from the division of the and won the 2012.A, screenwritten by Cline and and directed by, was released on March 29, 2018. Contents.Synopsis Setting In the 2040s, the world has been gripped by an from the depletion of and the consequences of and, causing widespread social problems. To escape the decline their world is facing, people turn to the OASIS, a virtual reality simulator accessible by players using and such as gloves. It functions both as an and as a, with its currency being the most stable in the real world. It was created by James Halliday who, when he died, had announced in his will to the public that he had left an inside OASIS, and the first person to find it would inherit his entire fortune and the corporation.
The story follows the adventures of Wade Watts, starting about five years after the announcement, when he discovers one of the three keys which unlock three successive gates leading to the treasure.Plot Teenager Wade Watts lives with his aunt in in the 'stacks', a poverty-stricken district constructed of piled on top of each other. He spends his spare time as a 'gunter' ('egg hunter'), logging on to the OASIS as an under the moniker Parzival, reading Halliday's journal Anorak's Almanac, and researching details of the 1980s pop culture, mainly and movies, that Halliday loved. One day, he realizes that the first key is located on Ludus, the same virtual world as his own online high school, in a re-creation of the module.
He meets Art3mis, a famous female gunter and blogger who has been exploring the place, and advances further than she does when he defeats the at the video game. He is awarded the Copper Key, and Parzival appears on the ', attracting the world's attention.Parzival completes the Copper Gate's puzzles by to planet, playing through the video game in a recreation of Halliday's parents's house and then role-playing 's character in the film. Art3mis clears the gate shortly afterwards, as does Wade's friend Aech. Wade’s fame enables him to make a living by endorsing virtual products. It also brings him to the attention of Nolan Sorrento, head of operations at Innovative Online Industries (IOI), a multinational corporation bent on a well-funded effort to find the Easter egg in order to take control of the OASIS and it. When Wade refuses to join IOI, Sorrento attempts to kill him by blowing up the stacks where Wade lives, killing his aunt and disguising the explosion as a accident.Wade escapes and moves to, where he lies low, assuming the and living in an anonymous apartment designed for hardcore OASIS users. He considers an alliance with Aech, Art3mis, and Daito and Shoto, two Japanese gunters who have also earned the Copper Key.
Instead, he and Art3mis begin a wary friendship, but when he, Art3mis declines. IOI operatives, called Sixers because of their six-digit avatar name, always beginning with '6', attempt to assassinate Wade and Art3mis's avatars at the birthday party of OASIS co-founder Ogden Morrow. They are stopped by Morrow, who has special privileges and powers within the OASIS. Art3mis abandons Wade due to the competition being more personal for her. Five months pass. Neither Wade nor anyone else has found the next token, the Jade Key.When Art3mis finally finds the Jade Key, Parzival scrambles to planet Archaide, where he plays a, receiving only a as a prize. Aech, who was the second player to find the Jade Key, provides a hint leading him to the planet where he solves a recreation of the and whistles through a Bo'Sun Whistle.
Sorrento, who had tracked Art3mis and Aech using a premium locator artifact, establishes a base there to their company's avatars with keys, and unlocks the second Gate and acquires the Jade Key. Shoto tells Parzival that the Sixers infiltrated Daito's apartment and threw him out of the building, killing him.Parzival unlocks the Jade Gate, a by entering a privately-owned -themed building, and completes the arcade game as a character from the perspective, being given a virtual as the prize and another clue: a red star in a circle. Using his knowledge of, he acquires the Crystal Key on planet Syrinx (the red star being the symbol of the Solar Federation in the song '), and after playing 'Discovery', the third movement of the song, finds a clue regarding the conditions to unlock the final gate. As he messages Art3mis, Aech, and Shoto with his solution, Sorrento ends their covert attempts to clear the third gate, Castle Anorak on planet Chthonia, and places a force field around it.Wade manipulates his assumed identity in order to be arrested and placed in in IOI's department. While inside IOI, he uses and into IOI's: he acquires a wealth of information, including footage of Daito's murder. The information also includes the attempt on his own life, as well as plans to force Shoto and Art3mis to work for IOI in real life, and kill them at the end of the contest (IOI doesn't know who Aech is due to him using a pseudonym).
After escaping the corporation, he shares his information with his friends and publicizes a gathering of avatars to storm the castle. They are interrupted by Ogden Morrow, who offers them a safe haven at his home in.
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Wade meets the real-life Aech and Ogden, but not Art3mis and Shoto, who are already hooked into Ogden's immersion pods.The day of the battle, Wade uses his planted hack to bring down the barricade, and a massive fight among avatars ensues. After Parzival uses the mecha (accompanied by Art3mis's, Aech's, and Shoto's ) to fight against Sorrento's, though Shoto's avatar is killed during the fight. Parzival and his friends unlock the gate, at which point the Sixers use an artifact called the Cataclyst to destroy the castle and all avatars over a large area. Parzival survives because having the Pac-Man quarter granted him an.
As he enters the Crystal Gate, he announces that if he wins he will share his fortune with his three friends. With Sorrento and his Sixers on his heels, Parzival plays, role-plays King Arthur and various characters in, and retrieves the Easter egg in. His victory grants him control of the OASIS, including wiping out his enemies' avatars, resurrecting his friends, and a that can shut down the OASIS forever. Sorrento is arrested for the murder of Daito and for conspiring to kill Wade and the others.
Back in Oregon, Wade and Art3mis, whose actual name is Samantha, meet in person and rekindle their relationship with a kiss.Characters. Wade Owen Watts a.k.a. Parzival: the, an orphan from the 'stacks' surrounding metropolitan, where his parents (his father being a thief and his mother a drug addicted ) died. Wade names his OASIS character Parzival after, and dedicates his life to finding James Halliday's Easter egg. He is 18 years old when he finds the Copper Key in the prologue of the book.
His username at the virtual high school he attends is Wade3. Wade's character was based on a mix of Cline as well as his geek friends. James Donovan Halliday a.k.a.
Anorak: creator of OASIS. A big fan of 1980s culture, he announces in his will his plans to leave his entire fortune to whoever can find his Easter egg that he had hidden in OASIS.
His character was initially inspired by who Cline described as a 'rich eccentric holding a fantastic contest'. Cline used the personalities of and, and placed Halliday's birth year around the same as his own so that his pop culture interests would coincide with Cline's 'and the other middle-aged uber geeks I know'. Aech (pronounced like the ): Wade's best friend, fellow gunter, and rival in the quest to find the egg. Aech's specialty is in and games, and is one of the top combatants on OASIS. Although Aech's avatar is an athletic Caucasian heterosexual male, Aech is played by an African-American named ' Helen Harris', who grew up in and is about the same age as Wade. Aech is based partly on Cline's friend as well as himself and other geeks, both men and women.
Art3mis: a famous female gunter and blogger. Wade has a huge cyber-crush on her, which is complicated by their competition in search of the egg. She chose her avatar's name from the. Like other characters, Cline based Art3mis on himself and other geeks, both men and women. Her real name is ' Samantha Evelyn Cook' from and she has a on her face. Ogden 'Og' Morrow a.k.a.
The Great and Powerful Og: Co-creator of the OASIS and best friend of James Halliday. They founded the video game company Gregarious Games, where he would handle the business operations, and which would later become Gregarious Simulation Systems (GSS), the company that launched OASIS. His appearance and personality are described as being 'a cross between Albert Einstein and Santa Claus'.
Concerned that people were using it to escape reality, he quits GSS and works on educational software with his wife Kira until her death. His relationship with Halliday deteriorated, and the two men remained estranged until before Halliday's death, when he is entrusted with ensuring that the hunt goes smoothly and without cheating. Ogden lives in and owns a set of advanced OASIS consoles and immersion rigs, and is able to in the OASIS, even in private chat rooms. He rarely appears in public, and only shows up on the OASIS once a year on his birthday, where he assumes the avatar of the Great and Powerful Og. Ogden's character and relationship with Halliday was inspired by, with Morrow being more like Jobs as a 'charismatic tech leader', while his avatar's name is clearly inspired to 's.
Daito: one of the two Japanese gunters who rise to the top of the scoreboard early on in the hunt, working in a team with 'brother' Shoto. The pair have a generally tense, but not unfriendly relationship with Aech, and Art3mis. They are closer to Parzival, and work together on quests unrelated to the hunt.
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They are based on: Japanese geeks who enjoy movies and, as well as: people who live as recluses inside their family's homes. Daito's real name is revealed to be ' Toshiro Yoshiaki' after he is killed by the IOI. Shoto: the second and younger of the two Japanese gunters working as a team in their quest for the egg. Shoto's real name is ' Akihide Karatsu'. Following the death of his partner, Shoto collaborates with Art3mis, Aech and Wade to finish the hunt. Nolan Sorrento: the head of operations at Innovative Online Industries (IOI), the multinational corporation that serves as an Internet service provider for most of the world, and that plans to take over and the OASIS. Sorrento is head of IOI's Oology division, which is dedicated to searching for Halliday's Easter egg.
His avatar name is IOI-, after his employee number. IOI employees in the division are nicknamed Sixers, after their six-digit employee numbers that also begin with the number 6. Cline said that he named Sorrento after, founder of the video game company, and said, 'Not that I think Nolan is a bad guy, or anything. It’s meant as a subtle tribute!'
Reception Ready Player One was a bestseller. Among those praising the book were,. Wrote that the novel 'undoubtedly qualifies Cline as the hottest geek on the planet right now.'
Said that the book was 'ridiculously fun and large-hearted'. Cline 'takes a far-out premise and engages the reader instantly' with a 'deeply felt narrative that makes it almost impossible to stop turning the pages.' Janet Maslin of wrote that 'The book gets off to a witty start' but noted that it lacks at least one dimension, stating that gaming had overwhelmed everything else about this book. Rebecca Serle of described the book as 'the grown-up's ' and that it 'has it all – nostalgia, trivia, adventure, romance, heart and, dare I say it, some very fascinating social commentary.'
's and Conor Lastowka's series dissected the book, criticizing it for defective, repetitive and excessive pop culture references in place of descriptive writing, and weak plot.The book has been translated into over 20 languages.In an interview with, Cline said that his book had inspired designers at companies such as which recommended the book for their new employees. Oculus has also invited Cline several times to sign books and demo hardware. The Ready Player One: Oasis beta, developed by Directive Games Limited, was released on March 23, 2018 alongside the Steven Spielberg movie and consists of four experiences made for virtual reality headsets. The game is currently available for free on Steam and Viveport.Spin-offs and sequels Short story Lacero, a story by, was published in the 2016 edition of Ready Player One.
It follows the story of Nolan Sorrento and functions as a precursor to the main novel, and is considered canonical to the Ready Player One fictional universe. Sequel novel In 2015, in an interview with, screenwriter Zak Penn reported that Cline was working on a sequel to the novel. In December 2017, Cline himself confirmed he is writing a sequel. Cline stated that the new sequel would not consist of a contest and would have a different type of storyline involving all of the characters while still exploring pop culture references like the first book. In other media Easter egg hunt promotion Ten months after the first edition release, Cline revealed on his blog that Ready Player One itself contained an elaborately hidden Easter egg.
This clue would form the first part of a series of staged video gaming tests, similar to the plot of the novel. Cline also revealed that the competition's grand prize would be a. The Easter egg was a URL hidden in the book for. This was the first stage of the contest where the 2011 Atari 2600 game The Stacks by developers Mike Mika & Kevin Wilson was featured. The game Ultimate Collector: Garage Sale by Austin-based developer was featured in the second stage of the contest. The final stage of the contest was announced on August 1, 2012, and was to set a world record on one of several classic arcade or games.
This was completed on August 9, 2012 by Craig Queen, who set a new world record in. He was awarded the DeLorean on the TV show. Film adaptation. Main article:The film rights were purchased by on the same day Cline finalized his publishing deal with, one year prior to the novel's publication. Dan Farah brought the project into the studio and produced it with. Cline adapted his novel into a screenplay. Over the years, and assisted Cline with rewrites.signed on to direct in March 2015.
Spielberg and of also joined Deline and Farah as producers. Initially announced a release date of December 15, 2017. On February 9, 2016, the release date was pushed back to March 30, 2018, to avoid competition with. The movie began production in the spring of 2016 and was filmed in both the United States and the United Kingdom.On June 9, 2016, Variety stated that Spielberg's regular collaborator was planning on composing the film's score.
However, scheduling conflicts with another Spielberg film, led to Spielberg signing for the score.The film stars,. It premiered at on March 11, 2018, and was theatrically released by in the United States on March 29, 2018. It received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised its visuals and brisk pacing, and noted it as an improvement over the book. This film received criticism for its lack of character development and its 'achingly regressive' view of fans.
See also.Notes. OASIS is an acronym for Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation. In OASIS, the students are required to use their real name when attending school, plus a number for name duplicates. For example, Wade Watts goes by Wade3, and there is another student named Todd13. Art3mis chose the spelling as her username because the original spelling was already taken. The terms 'Ch.'
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