Ready Player One ( Ready Player One #1 )

A world at stake.A quest for the ultimate prize.Are you ready ?It’s the year 2044, and the real world is an ugly place.Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes his grim surroundings by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia that lets you be anything you want to be, a place where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets.And like most of humanity, Wade dreams of being the one to discover the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this virtual world. For somewhere inside this giant networked playground, OASIS creator James Halliday has hidden a series of fiendish puzzles that will yield massive fortune—and remarkable power—to whoever can unlock them.For years, millions have struggled fruitlessly to attain this prize, knowing only that Halliday’s riddles are based in the pop culture he loved—that of the late twentieth century. And for years, millions have found in this quest another means of escape, retreating into happy, obsessive study of Halliday’s icons. Like many of his contemporaries, Wade is as comfortable debating the finer points of John Hughes’s oeuvre, playing Pac-Man, or reciting Devo lyrics as he is scrounging power to run his OASIS rig.And then Wade stumbles upon the first puzzle.Suddenly the whole world is watching, and thousands of competitors join the hunt—among them certain powerful players who are willing to commit very real murder to beat Wade to this prize. Now the only way for Wade to survive and preserve everything he knows is to win. But to do so, he may have to leave behind his oh-so-perfect virtual existence and face up to life—and love—in the real world he’s always been so desperate to escape. Estamos en el año 2044 y, como el resto de la humanidad, Wade Watts prefiere mil veces el videojuego de OASIS al cada vez más sombrío mundo real. Se afirma que esconde las piezas de un rompecabezas diabólico cuya resolución conduce a una fortuna incalculable. Durante años, millones de humanos han intentado dar con ellas, sin éxito. De repente, Wade logra resolver el primer rompecabezas del premio, y a partir de ese momento debe competir contra miles de jugadores para conseguir el trofeo. La única forma de sobrevivir es ganar. Ready Player One, el impresionante debut de Ernest Cline, está revolucionando la literatura de género en Estados Unidos. Antes incluso de su publicación, convenció a la Warner Bros, de convertirlo en su próxima gran producción, a agentes y editores de medio mundo de que compraran sus derechos, y cautivó a autores de la talla de Charlaine Harris y Patrick Rothfuss, a quien, según ha confesado, le pareció un libro escrito por él mismo. Desde entonces, esta novela ha seducido a la crítica y ha alcanzado las listas de más vendidos del New York Times y Amazon. In the year 2044. reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts *really* feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines--puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them. But when Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade's going to survive, he'll have to win--and confront the real world he's always been so desperate to escape. (Provided by publisher). En el año 2044, Wade Watts, como el resto de la humanidad, decide escapar de la realidad y pasa sus horas de vigilia en el, utópico mundo virtual ilimitado de OASIS, pero cuando Wade se topa con el primero de los puzles establecido por OASIS creador James Halliday, se encuentra con que tiene que competir con miles de personas - incluyendo aquellos dispuestos a cometer un asesinato - con el fin de reclamar el premio de una gran fortuna In the year 2044, Wade Watts, like the rest of humanity, chooses to escape reality and spends his waking hours in the limitless, utopian virtual world of OASIS, but when Wade stumbles upon the first of the fiendish puzzles set up by OASIS creator James Halliday, he finds he must compete with thousands of others--including those willing to commit murder--in order to claim the prize of a massive fortune