Ready Player One

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PRESENT DAY 2044: reality is a dismal place. Wade Watts, a teenage boy, only really feels alive when he's hooked into the OASIS, a virtual paradise. Wade has dedicated his life to researching the riddles that lie inside the digital walls of this realm. These riddles are rooted in the pop culture obsessions of the last few decades of their inventor, and the solution holds the key to immense power and wealth for the person who can solve them.

Nevertheless, Wade is hounded by players ready to murder in order to win this ultimate reward as soon as he discovers the first clue. Wade must prevail in the race and face the actual world that he has always been so eager to avoid if he is to live.