3 Quotes About Ready Player One

Ready Player One is a science fiction novel written by Ernest Cline. It was published in 2011 by Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. The novel’s plot follows Wade Watts, a teenager living in the year 2044, who is obsessed with the pop culture of the 1980s Read more

Wade escapes into a virtual reality world called “The Oasis” where he can escape from his miserable life. He spends his time there interacting with other people who are also stuck in their own real lives.

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It suddenly occurred to me just how absurd this scene was: a guy wearing a suit of armor, standing next to an undead king, both hunched over the controls of a classic arcade game. It was the sort of surreal image you'd expect to see on the cover of an old issue of Heavy Metal or Dragon magazine. Ernest Cline
You're going to turn it into a fascist corporate theme...
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You're going to turn it into a fascist corporate theme park where the few people who can still afford the price of admission no longer have an ounce of freedom. Ernest Cline