Ready Player One - Its co-relation with Second Life
What is the co-relation of the book with Second Life? Here's what author Ernest Cline has to say.
Wired.com: How would you describe Ready Player One?
Cline: It’s kind of like Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, but if Willy Wonka was a videogame designer. It’s about a videogame contest that this eccentric billionaire creates — this really popular version of Second Life that the whole world uses every day. He dies and leaves his fortune to whoever can unlock these videogame puzzles that he’s left behind.
Because he was kind of a Generation X kid and obsessed with ’80s pop culture and old videogames, all the puzzles have to do with geek culture and ’80s videogames and things like that. It’s basically me geeking out for about 400 pages.
