THE BOOK BEHIND THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY STEVEN SPIELBERG Wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, Ready Player One is 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 A world at stake. A quest for the ultimate prize. Are you ready? Its the year 2044, and the real world has become an ugly place. Were out of oil. Weve wrecked the climate. Famine, poverty, and disease are widespread. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes this depressing reality by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia where you can be anything you want to be, where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets. And like most of humanity, Wade is obsesse