Ready Player One
Virtual reality quest
Ready Player One is a 2011 science fiction novel by Ernest Cline, set in a dystopian future where people escape reality through a vast virtual universe called the OASIS.
The story follows a teenager hunting for an Easter egg hidden by the simulation's deceased creator.
The book spawned a 2018 film adaptation directed by Steven Spielberg.
The title has become shorthand for nostalgia-heavy pop culture, particularly 1980s references: The presentation was very Ready Player One with all those retro video game clips.
- virtual realityComputer-created interactive environment
- avatarDigital user representation
- virtualExisting in effect, not fact
- eightiesYears from eighty-nine backward
- nostalgiaLonging for the past
Spielberg · Easter · egg · hunt · Wade · Easter egg · treasure hunt · arcade · Atari · quest · high score · extra life · dystopia · VR · headset · DeLorean · Iron Giant · Mechagodzilla
- crossoverscrossover hit, crossover appeal, crossover star, crossover episode, genre crossover
- Adapted NovelsHarry Potter, The Hunger Games, Twilight, Jurassic Park, The Lord of the Rings
- sci-fiscience fiction, Star Wars, sci-fi, Blade Runner 2049, aliens
- SpielbergE.T., Schindler's List, Jurassic Park, Saving Private Ryan, Indiana Jones
- video game moviesSuper Mario Bros, Sonic the Hedgehog, Warcraft, Assassin's Creed, Tomb Raider
- coming-of-agecoming-of-age, bildungsroman, growing up, maturation, youth
Ready Player OneWalden
Massachusetts pond and memoir
Feed · digital detox · The Matrix · Brave New World · technophobia
Ready Player OneUlysses
Greek hero, Latinized
Infinite Jest · Neuromancer · The Road · literary fiction · highbrow
Ready Player OneWalden
Massachusetts pond and memoir
Wild · nature writing · rewilding · digital minimalism · slow living
ready, readiness, readied, readying, readier, readiest, unready, player, play