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'''''Ready Player One''''' is a 2011 novel by Ernest Cline about a teen named Wade Watts, who spends all his time on OASIS, a virtual reality [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game]] that has replaced the Internet itself as a primary means of recreation and communication. He plays to escape his boring, harrowing life in the trailer park he calls home. Wade's life is consumed by the quest to find the hidden fortune of the man who created OASIS, James Halliday. The only clues to how to get at it were hidden away in his personal writings, and the only way to decode them is... [[The Eighties|80's]] pop culture.
What follows is a story about life, adventure, and a love letter to the 1980s wrapped up in a science fiction plot that's a blast to read.
A film adaptation, from director [[Steven Spielberg]], will be released in 2018.
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* [[Abusive Parents]]: {{spoiler|Aech's mother abandoned her when she found out that she was a lesbian.}}
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* [[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 with Acronyms]]: Wade Owen Watts spells out W.O.W.
* [[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.
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