Release Date:- 2011-08-16
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢ Now a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg.
āEnchanting . . . Willy Wonka meets The Matrix.āāUSA Today ā¢ āAs one adventure leads expertly to the next, time simply evaporates.āāEntertainment Weekly
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 heās 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 fortuneāand control of the OASIS itself.
Then Wade cracks the first clue. Suddenly heās beset by rivals whoāll kill to take this prize. The race is onāand the only way to survive is to win.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Entertainment Weekly ā¢ San Francisco Chronicle ā¢ Village Voice ā¢ Chicago Sun-Times ā¢ iO9 ā¢ The AV Club
āDelightful . . . the grown-upās Harry Potter.āāHuffPost
āAn addictive read . . . part intergalactic scavenger hunt, part romance, and all heart.āāCNN
āA most excellent ride . . . Cline stuffs his novel with a cornucopia of pop culture, as if to wink to the reader.āāBoston Globe
āRidiculously fun and large-hearted . . . Cline is that rare writer who can translate his own dorky enthusiasms into prose thatās both hilarious and compassionate.āāNPR
ā[A] fantastic page-turner . . . starts out like a simple bit of fun and winds up feeling like a rich and plausible picture of future friendships in a world not too distant from our own.āāiO9