Ready Player One author Ernest Cline reveals sequel's story line
The top-secret story of Ready Player Two has finally been revealed.
The top-secret story line of Ready Player Two has finally been revealed.
Author Ernest Cline unveiled the book jacket copy for his eagerly anticipated Ready Player One sequel at New York Comic Con on Friday.
Here's the official description that sets up Cline's next adventure in the OASIS:
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.
Clearly, there's a lot to unpack there.
The "two worlds at stake" seem to suggest that not only is the OASIS in jeopardy, like in the first novel, but the real world as well.
One can only imagine what the secretive new technology is… but certain Black Mirror episodes are coming to mind.
Cline participated in this year’s virtual NYCC via a Zoom interview with Wil Wheaton (the audiobook narrator for both of the RP books).
Ready Player Two is a sequel to Cline's 2011 debut novel, which was a runaway best-seller and spawned a 2018 hit film adaptation directed by Steven Spielberg. There's no deal for a film yet based on the sequel, but one has to imagine that an eventual adaptation is likely.
Ready Player Two will be released Nov. 24.
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