Ready Player One

by Ernest Cline

I felt like a kid standing in the world’s greatest video arcade without any quarters, unable to do anything but walk around and watch the other kids play.

It was the dawn of a new era, one where most of the human race now spent all of their free time inside a videogame.

I’m not crazy about reality, but it’s still the only place to get a decent meal. —Groucho Marx

You know you’ve totally screwed up your life when your whole world turns to shit and the only person you have to talk to is your system agent software.