Ready Player Two: A Novel

Ernest Cline

Nov 2020 · Ready Player One Book 2 · Sold by Ballantine Books

About this ebook

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The thrilling sequel to the beloved worldwide bestseller Ready Player One, the near-future adventure that inspired the blockbuster Steven Spielberg film.
 
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST • “The game is on again. . . . A great mix of exciting fantasy and threatening fact.”—The Wall Street Journal

AN UNEXPECTED QUEST. TWO WORLDS AT STAKE. ARE YOU READY?

Days after winning OASIS founder James Halliday’s contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything.

Hidden within Halliday’s vaults, waiting for his heir to find, lies a technological advancement that will once again change the world and make the OASIS a thousand times more wondrous—and addictive—than even Wade dreamed possible.
 
With it comes a new riddle, and a new quest—a last Easter egg from Halliday, hinting at a mysterious prize.
 
And an unexpected, impossibly powerful, and dangerous new rival awaits, one who’ll kill millions to get what he wants.
 
Wade’s life and the future of the OASIS are again at stake, but this time the fate of humanity also hangs in the balance.
 
Lovingly nostalgic and wildly original as only Ernest Cline could conceive it, Ready Player Two takes us on another imaginative, fun, action-packed adventure through his beloved virtual universe, and jolts us thrillingly into the future once again.

Ratings and reviews

I'm going to jump right into this and say that the second half is better than the first. the constant telling the reader about the games and background started to bog me down, and I ended up just plowing through and sort of speed reading whole chapters by just looking for sets of words that seemed intriguing. I never read the first book, so if this one is written in the same style, sorry, but I didn't really appreciate it. don't get me wrong, the action parts and mystery parts were good, but it felt like the author was just trying to make the book longer by adding all the background stuff.

What a great way to continue the story! This perfectly picks up after where the first book finished. Full of great throwbacks to the 80's intertwined perfectly into a story full of love, loss and family. Ready player two opens up the possibility for a fun actioned packed sequel referencing great actors of the real world such as Vin Diesel and Robert Downy Jr. can't wait to see if and how they pull the movie off if one is made. give it a go, easy read with plenty of content to drag you through.

A great extension of the story in Ready Player One. Dive deeper into each of the main characters from the first book on another quest that opens up more possibilities contained within the OASIS. Another wonderful walk down memory lane for those of a certain age to appreciate all the well researched details from that time; pieced together again in a compelling page turner of a book from cover to cover.

About the author

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.