Ready Player One (Film Tie In) – Cline Ernest (2018)

It is the year 2044, and the real world has become an ugly place. The oil is gone, the climate has been ruined, and famine, poverty and disease are widespread. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes this depressing reality by spending his waking hours connected to the OASIS, a vast virtual utopia where people can be anything they want, live, play and fall in love across ten thousand planets. Wade is also obsessed with the ultimate prize hidden within this alternate reality. OASIS founder James Halliday dies without an heir and promises control of the OASIS, along with his immense fortune, to whoever solves the riddles scattered throughout his creation. For years, millions struggle unsuccessfully to claim the prize, knowing only that the riddles are based on late-twentieth-century culture. Then Wade discovers the key to the first puzzle. He suddenly finds himself competing against thousands of others in a desperate race for the ultimate prize, a chase that soon acquires terrifying real-world consequences and profoundly changes both Wade and his world. The book is in English.