Ready Player One: The global bestseller and now a major Steven Spielberg movie

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USA Today wrote that the novel "undoubtedly qualifies Cline as the hottest geek on the planet right now. To his surprise, Wade finds a recreation of Happytime Pizza, a pizza place Halliday frequented as a child. In contrast to the book's contemporary reviews, which were generally positive, these were substantially more negative and triggered a social media backlash towards the book and the then-upcoming film adaptation.Frank Herbert begins the Dune Chronicles series with Dune, a classic tale widely regarded as setting the standards for many aspects of modern sci fi. Ernest Cline: It might be because young readers have all been raised in a world filled with high technology, just like the characters in the book. The book’s protagonist is Kali Ling, the biggest and best everfemale gamer in the Virtual Gaming League.

Ready Player One falls within the LitRPG subgenre of science fiction, meaning it features the conventions of massive multiplayer online role-playing games (such as the OASIS itself) and includes games as a substantial part of the plot. Ten months after the first edition's release, Cline revealed on his blog that Ready Player One itself contained an elaborately hidden Easter egg. Because it was such a sprawling story, anchoring the point of view with one character made it easier for me to keep track of what was going on – I could show the whole world from his perspective, but this ended up limiting the other characters. To escape the decline their world is facing, people turn to the OASIS, [a] a virtual reality simulator accessible by players using visors and haptic technology such as gloves.Ready Player One is a 2011 science fiction novel, and the debut novel of American author Ernest Cline.