"For me, growing up as a human being on the planet Earth in the twenty-first century was a real kick in the teeth. Existentially speaking."
Ready Player One is a 2011 science fiction novel, and the debut novel of American author Ernest Cline. The story, set in a dystopia in 2045, follows protagonist Wade Watts on his search for an Easter egg in a worldwide virtual reality game, the discovery of which would lead him to inherit the game creator's fortune and the game itself. Cline sold the rights to publish the novel in June 2010, in a
"A lot of kids owned their own interplanetary vehicles. School parking lots all over Ludus were filled with UFOs, TIE fighters, old NASA space shuttles, Vipers from Battlestar Galactica, and other spacecraft designs lifted from every sci-fi movie and TV show you can think of."
"The Great Recession was now entering its third decade, and unemployment was still at a record high. Even the fast-food joints in my neighborhood had a two-year waiting list for job applicants."
"We dont need a map because where we are going, there is no map"
"And then it finally happened. Right while I was sitting there daydreaming in Latin class."
"Being human totally sucks most of the time."
"Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable."