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