Ready Participant Plot Synopsis Exhibits ‘a Closing Easter Egg’

Just as Roald Dahl located a manner to retain Charlie’s tale after the definitive finishing of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, novelist Ernest Cline noticed room for a sequel to his hit 2011 dystopian sci-fi novel Ready Player One. At the end of that e book, Wade Watts, having successfully solved all the clues left in the back of in the virtual reality gamespace OASIS, took possession of the alt-universe from its original creator, the Willy Wonka-esque James Halliday.

In July, Cline announced that he had sooner or later completed a sequel to the e-book, the logically titled Ready Player Two, but exactly what might occur inside the sequel became left a thriller. Until Friday morning, for the duration of a 2020 New York Comic Con panel selling the ebook, the writer finally teased the course for his 2nd, nostalgia-stuffed adventure inside the OASIS. Moderator Wil Wheaton, who narrated the audiobook model of Ready Player One and is set to return for the sequel, read the synopsis for the e book instantly off the flap:

An unexpected quest. Two worlds at stake. Are you equipped?

Days after OASIS founder James Halliday’s contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that modifications everything. Hidden within Halliday’s vaults, anticipating his inheritor to find, lies a technological advancement a good way to all over again alternate the arena and make the OASIS more wondrous — and addictive — then even Wade dreamed possible. With it comes a new riddle and a brand new quest, a final Easter egg from Holiday, hinting at a mysterious prize, and an surprising, impossibly powerful, new and threatening rival awaits, one that will kill thousands and thousands to get what he wishes. Wade’s life and the future of the OASIS are once more at stake, however this time, the fate of humanity also hangs in the stability.

After working carefully with screenwriter Zak Penn and director Steven Spielberg at the film edition of Ready Player One, Cline discovered time to chip away at his sequel. He teased his paintings on the e book in 2017, and it arrives from Ballantine Books, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House, beneath a veil of secrecy.