Now the only way for Wade to survive and preserve everything he knows is to win. 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. And then Wade stumbles upon the first puzzle. 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 for years, millions have found in this quest another means of escape, retreating into happy, obsessive study of Halliday s icons. 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. 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. And like most of humanity, Wade dreams of being the one to discover the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this virtual world. 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. It’s the year 2044, and the real world is an ugly place. At this, Zach worries he will be forcibly removed from the program.At once wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, Ready Player One is a spectacularly genre busting, ambitious, and charming debut part quest novel, part love story, and part virtual space opera set in a universe where spell slinging mages battle giant Japanese robots, entire planets are inspired by Blade Runner, and flying DeLoreans achieve light speed. During the battle, Zach disobeys explicit orders, causing the destruction of numerous precious drones. Suddenly, the base is attacked without warning and the new recruits must immediately take to battle stations to defend the base. Apparently, the government has known about an upcoming three-tiered attack from the aliens for forty years.
There, Zach learns that Armada is, in fact, a simulation created by the government to train drone pilots against an imminent attack from aliens hailing from Europa, one of the moons orbiting Jupiter.Īt the base in Nebraska, Zach is escorted into a briefing room where he sits next to a woman with tattoos named Lex. And who steps out but Ray himself, who recruits Zach to fly with him to a top-secret base in Nebraska. Still curious about the UFO he sees and uncertain about whether he’s losing his mind, Zach learns that it isn’t a hallucination when a huge spaceship resembling the ones piloted by the Earth government in Armada lands on the lawn of his school.
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