Ready Player One (Signed First Edition)

Cline, Ernest

ISBN 10: 030788743X / ISBN 13: 9780307887436

Verlag: Ballantine Books, 2011

Beschreibung

First Edition/First Printing with the complete number line, in the first state jacket with no blurb to the front panel; A Very Good book in a Near Fine dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed by the author with the inscription "MTFBWYA"! A handsome copy of this wildly popular debut novel, the basis for the excellent film; scarce in the first printing and signed; this copy is in very good condition with some light edgewear and minor smudging/soiling to the boards; housed in a crisp and clean near fine dust jacket that shows only slight rubbing to the edges and a faint sunning to the front panel, else Fine. Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in archival protection and will ship in a sturdy box.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 4217

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Ready Player One (Signed First Edition)
• Verlag: Ballantine Books
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 030788743X
• ISBN-13: 9780307887436
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 1st Edition
• Zustand: Very Good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine
• Signiert: Signed by Author(s)
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Books Into Movies
  • Science Fiction

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Inhaltsangabe

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read

The bestselling cult classic—now a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg.

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.

It’s the year 2045, and the real world is an ugly place.

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.

And like most of humanity, Wade dreams of being the one to discover the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this virtual world. 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.  

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. And for years, millions have found in this quest another means of escape, retreating into happy, obsessive study of Halliday’s icons. 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 then Wade stumbles upon the first puzzle.

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. Now the only way for Wade to survive and preserve everything he knows is to win. But to do so, he may have to leave behind his oh-so-perfect virtual existence and face up to life—and love—in the real world he’s always been so desperate to escape. 
 
A world at stake.
A quest for the ultimate prize.
Are you ready?

. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ernest Cline is a #1 New York Times bestselling novelist, screenwriter, father, and full-time geek. He is the author of the novels Ready Player One and Armada and co-screenwriter of the film adaptation of Ready Player One, directed by Steven Spielberg. His books have been published in over fifty countries and have spent more than 100 weeks on The New York Times bestsellers list. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his family, a time-traveling DeLorean, and a large collection of classic video games.