In the current state of the seventh art, devoted to special effects and action stories, stocking up on arguments from good science fiction books at least compensates for the dangerous transition from cinema as a mere visual spectacle.
Steven Spielberg is aware of all this, and he has managed to find in the novel Ready Player One a perfect script for a future blockbuster. The novelist Ernest Cline He will be flattered when the movie comes out in 2018.
As for the novel itself, we could say that it is a dystopia with an eighties setting, only advanced to the year 2044. In the intricacies of the virtual environment Oasis hides an enigmatic proposal that can turn whoever discovers it into a millionaire. The real world has ceased to have any charm for the inhabitants of a planet Earth subjected to the dictatorship of capital.
People live in Oasis, a technological replica of the happy world by Huxley. And in fiction relationships are established. Oasis gives a lot of itself to end up surrendering to fiction as the only way to overcome physical reality.
James Halliday, the creator of the famous setting, has a surprise in store. Upon his death, he reveals that a treasure is hidden in Oasis, a fortune hidden in an Easter egg.
Wade Watts is one of the few who persists in the search as time goes by without anyone finding the famous egg. Until he manages to find the key.
All Oasis and all connected humans suddenly revolve around Wade Watts. The two realities then seem to overlap, and Wade must move through both environments to get his prize in the same way as to save his life, in danger from the moment he becomes the owner of the key.
The action of this novel will enchant thirty-something and forty-something grown up in the shadow of arcades, arcades, the trends of the eighties and nineties, and pop culture of the late twentieth century. A geek point and a wonderful evocative point ...
You can now buy the novel Ready Player One, Ernest Cline's book that Steven Spielberg will soon take to the movies, here: