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**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 hes 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 hes beset by rivals wholl kill to take this prize. The race is on and the only way to survive is to win.

Wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia,Ready Player Oneis a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debutIndependent

Part intergalactic scavenger hunt, part romance, and all heartCNN

Ernest Clines novel deserves to be a modern classicSciFiNow

Gorgeously geeky, superbly entertaining, this really is a spectacularly successful debutDaily Mail

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ERNEST CLINE is an internationally best-selling novelist, screenwriter, father, and full-time geek. He is the #1New York Timesbest-selling author of the novelsReady Player OneandArmada,and co-screenwriter of the blockbuster film adaptation ofReady Player One, directed by Steven Spielberg. His books have been published in over fifty countries and have spent more than 100 weeks onThe New York TimesBest Sellers list.He lives in Austin, Texas, with his family, a time-traveling DeLorean, and a large collection of classic video games.