Ready Player One -- Ernest Cline

<p><b>#1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER </b>- <b>Now a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg.</b> <p/> <b>"Enchanting . . . <i>Willy Wonka </i>meets <i>The Matrix</i>."--<i>USA Today </i>- "As one adventure leads expertly to the next, time simply evaporates."--<i>Entertainment Weekly</i></b> <p/> <i>A world at stake. A quest for the ultimate prize. Are you ready?</i> <p/> In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the OASIS, a vast virtual world where most of humanity spends their days. <p/> 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 fortune--and control of the OASIS itself. <p/> Then Wade cracks the first clue. Suddenly he's beset by rivals who'll kill to take this prize. The race is on--and the only way to survive is to win. <p/> <b>NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY <i>Entertainment Weekly </i>- <i>San Francisco Chronicle </i>- <i>Village Voice </i>- <i>Chicago Sun-Times </i>- <i>iO9 </i>- <i>The AV Club</i></b> <p/> "Delightful . . . the grown-up's Harry Potter."<b>--<i>HuffPost</i></b> <p/> "An addictive read . . . part intergalactic scavenger hunt, part romance, and all heart."<b>--CNN</b> <p/> "A most excellent ride . . . Cline stuffs his novel with a cornucopia of pop culture, as if to wink to the reader."<b>--<i>Bo