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* [[Dropped a Bridget On Him]]: {{spoiler|Aech}} uses a male avatar in the OASIS. {{spoiler|Near the end of the story, she's revealed as a Sassy Black Woman in the real world.}}
* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: Wade had to go to a lot in order to make it happen, though.
* [[Easter Egg]]: What Halliday describes his prize as, even though it's technically a [[Treasure Hunt]]. There is a real example, though. On the arcade planet, you can go to a certain arcade and play a perfect game of [[
* [[Eccentric Millionaire]]: James Halliday easily qualifies as this. Some parentheticals note that he may have had a form of Asperger's Syndrome.
* [[The Eighties]]: A large focus of the plot is almost every single trivial detail about Eighties pop culture.
* [[Evil, Inc.]]: IOI. They're looking for Halliday's egg as well, and if they find it they will introduce monthly fees for the currently [[Allegedly Free Game|free to play]] OASIS, plaster ads on every visible surface and basically ruin the only thing that still makes life bearable.
* [[Expy]]: The author compares Halliday to a Bill Gates-esque figure. Meanwhile, Halliday's longtime friend Ogden Morrow is a thinly veiled Steve Wozniak.
* [[Fun
* [[Game Within a Game]]: OASIS has recreations of all the old video games. Some parts of the hunt could be considered a game within a game within a game.
* [[GIRL]]: {{spoiler|Aech. Inverted.}}
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* [[Only Smart People May Pass]]: The Easter Egg requires Encyclopedic knowledge of 80s pop culture.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Wade's real parents died when he was young. Even his single mother, who did seem to care for him, didn't have time to do much beyond set him up with OASIS.
* [[Person
* [[Player Versus Player]]: Usually Gunters vs. Sixers en masse in story
* [[Post Cyber Punk]]: The setting. If IOI wins, it will quickly become classic [[Cyberpunk]].
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** Wade has two space vessels on his asteroid base: an [[Star Wars|X-Wing]] and a [[Firefly|Firefly-class]] ship.
** At one point, the elections in OASIS are held and [[Cory Doctorow]] and [[Wil Wheaton]] are re-elected as President and Vice-President. This becomes doubly funny when you realize that the audiobook is narrated by [[Wil Wheaton]] himself.
** Sorrento's employee number 655321 is Alex's prison number from the film version of ''[[A Clockwork Orange (
** Wade's alias Bryce Lynch is a young hacker character from ''[[Max Headroom]]''. While living under this alias, he uses Max Headroom as a virtual servant.
** Wade's IOI employee aliases are Sam Lowery and Harry Tuttle, from ''[[Brazil (
* [[Twofer Token Minority|Threefer Token Minority]]: {{spoiler|Aech}} is black, female, and homosexual.
* [[The Three Trials]]: The three keys and three gates.
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