The quest involves obtaining finding three keys, entering three gates, and successfully competing three contests. The prize? $240 billion in real world currency. He is a “gunter,” a serious gamer looking for the “egg” Halliday left behind as his last bequest five years ago. He attends virtual school here, and when not in school pursues a quest that not everyone thinks is real. While he lives with his aunt, he spends most of his time in a secret hideaway in which he has connected his computer rig and “haptic” gear, in a virtual world called OASIS, created by perhaps the greatest of all game programmers, James Halliday. Wade Watts lives in a ghetto in Oklahoma, consisting of trailers “stacked” on scaffolding. Climate change and the attendant breakdown of civil society has rendered much of the planet, and much of the United States a dangerous wasteland. But as a lifelong Buckeye, Ohio authors, whether they still live here or not, are my thing. If it weren’t for the fact that the author was born in Ohio, I may not have given it a second thought. I have to admit, dystopian novels with a gaming theme are not my thing. I might be one of the last people to come to this ten year old story since made into a motion picture. Summary: A virtual world quest created as the last act of a gaming programmer in which a real prize of $240 billion is at stake pits Wade Watts and a rag tag group of “gunters” against a ruthless corporation.
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