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Ready Player One
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline–the battle for control of the Oasis begins!
The hero, Wade Watts, is a poor, orphaned teenager, whose real life exists on the OASIS, a massively multiplayer online game. He is stuck with a third-level avatar. “Having a third-level avatar was a colossal embarrassment.” Wade is a gunter, looking for the creator’s secret Easter Egg hidden in the OASIS. “The Hunt, as the contest came to be known, quickly wove its way into global culture. Like winning the lottery, finding Halliday’s Easter egg became a popular fantasy among adults and children alike. . . . A new subculture was born, composed of the millions of people who now devoted every free moment of their lives to searching for Halliday’s egg. At first, these individuals were known simply as ‘egg hunters,’ but this was quickly truncated to the nickname ‘gunters.’”