Plus there is a Big Bad in the form of an evil corporation. Although most of the action takes place in The Oasis, there is adventure, romance, and friendship. We get a ton of information on the real world and The Oasis. Ready Player One finds the perfect balance of world-building and moving the story forward. My fingers just typed sigh-fi by mistake but it might apply because it was SO GOOD. *sighs* But I totally embraced the geek and fell hard for this book. It sounds so geeky and too heavy on the sci-fi. I really didn’t think that I would love this one as much as people told me I would. When he becomes the first person to stumble on the first of the three keys necessary to finding the egg, he is thrust into the spotlight and his knowledge is put to the test. He dedicates all of his free time to learning about Halliday and the 1980s. Wade becomes a Gunter (someone devoted to hunting Halliday’s Easter Egg). So the world must embrace that era once again. But James Halliday was stuck in the decade in which he was a teenager: the 1980s. When The Oasis’ creator, James Halliday, dies, he leaves his fortune (and control of The Oasis) to the first person to find his hidden easter egg within the world he created. The Oasis is a virtual reality where people can go to school, get jobs, and live their lives away from the “real” world. The world is in shambles thanks to rising energy costs. Wade (or Parzival as he is known in The Oasis) is a teenager living in Oklahoma City in the 2040s.
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