Ernest Cline: Ready Player One, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Kurzbeschreibung

Wir schreiben das Jahr 2044, die Welt ist zu einem hässlicher Ort verkommen. Es gibt kein Öl mehr, das Klima spielt vollkommen verrückt, Hunger, Armut und Krankheit sind allgegenwärtig. Wie viele andere Menschen, zieht auch Wade Watts sich in die virtuelle Welt von OASIS zurück, ein Ort, wo man alles sein kann, was man will und die Möglichkeiten unendlich sind. Und es liegt ein Schatz in OASIS verborgen. Der Gründer, welcher ohne Erben verstarb, versprach demjenigen, der seine Rätsel zu lösen vermag, sein gesamtes Vermögen und alleinige Kontrolle über OASIS. Seit Jahren ist es niemandem gelungen, einen Hinweis zu finden, doch nun hat Wade das erste Rätsel gelöst... The Sci-Fi Sensation of the Year - a jaw-droppingly cinematic space opera, part classic coming-of-age story, part brilliant pop-culture mash-up

Beschreibung

It's the year 2044, and the real world has become an ugly place. We're out of oil. We've 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 obsessed by the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this alternate reality: OASIS founder James Halliday, who dies with no heir, has promised that control of the OASIS - and his massive fortune - will go to the person who can solve the riddles he has left scattered throughout his creation.

For years, millions have struggled fruitlessly to attain this prize, knowing only that the riddles are based in the culture of the late twentieth century. And then Wade stumbles onto the key to the first puzzle.

Suddenly, he finds himself pitted against thousands of competitors in a desperate race to claim the ultimate prize, a chase that soon takes on terrifying real-world dimensions - and that will leave both Wade and his world profoundly changed.

Rezension

"Fascinating and imaginative...It's non-stop action when gamers must navigate clever puzzles and outwit determined enemies in a virtual world in order to save a real one. Readers are in for a wild ride." Terry Brooks, No. 1 New York Times bestselling author

Klappentext

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