Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Ready Player One - Ernest Cline

Dystopian American Eighties geekout.

As a megarich billionaire game designer leaves his entire massive fortune to the person that can solve a puzzle quest he has left behind post-mortem. Which involves being as obsessed with 1980s American pop culture and geek stuff in the 2040s. So not quite as interesting, if not a yank.

Most people broke and plenty starving - with one escape is free access to a worldwide second life type program - designed by our dead billionaire, hence the wealth. Whoever wins will get control with this amount of money. So for the corporate fascists it is worth killing over if they can get away with it when so many people are obsessed with this quest and also hate them.

Cue epic online battle with spaceships, giant robots and video games.


4 out of 5

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