I love the concept and expected I’d like it but the book surpassed all my expectations. This is my first time reading the author. (Random House, 18 August 2011, first published 16 August 2011, ebook, 384 pages, borrowed from my library, Popsugar 2018 Reading Challenge, a cyberpunk book)
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. And then Wade stumbles onto the key to the first puzzle. 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.įor years, millions have struggled fruitlessly to attain this prize, knowing only that the riddles are based in the culture of the late twentieth century. 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. Famine, poverty, and disease are widespread. It’s the year 2044, and the real world has become an ugly place.
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