Ready Player Two: A Novel

von Ernest Cline

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Beschreibung

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After I won Halliday’s contest, I remained offline for nine straight days—a new personal record.

When I finally logged back in to my OASIS account, I was sitting in my new corner office on the top floor of the GSS skyscraper in downtown Columbus, Ohio, preparing to start my gig as one of the company’s new owners. The other three were still scattered across the globe: Shoto had flown back home to Japan to take over operations at GSS’s Hokkaido division. Aech was enjoying an extended vacation in Senegal, a country she’d dreamed of visiting her whole life, because her ancestors had come from there. And Samantha had flown back to Vancouver to pack up her belongings and say goodbye to her grandmother, Evelyn. She wasn’t due to arrive here in Columbus for another four days, which seemed like an eternity. I needed to distract myself until our reunion, so I decided to log back in to the OASIS and try out a few more of the superuser abilities my avatar now possessed.

I climbed into my brand-new top-of-the-line OASIS immersion rig, a Habashaw OIR-9400, then put on my visor and haptic gloves and initiated the login sequence. My avatar reappeared where I’d last logged out, on the planet Chthonia, standing outside the gates of Castle Anorak. As I’d anticipated, there were thousands of other avatars already gathered there, all waiting patiently for me to make an appearance. According to the newsfeed headlines, some of them had been camped out there all week—ever since I’d resurrected them in the aftermath of our epic battle against the Sixers.

In my first official act as one of GSS’s new owners, just a few hours after the fight ended, I’d authorized our admins to restore all the items, credits, and power levels those heroic users had lost, along with their avatars. I thought it was the least we could do to repay them for their help, and Samantha, Aech, and Shoto had agreed. It was the first decision we’d voted on as the company’s new co-owners.

As soon as the avatars in my vicinity spotted me, they began to run in my direction, closing in on me from all sides at once. To avoid getting mobbed, I teleported inside the castle, into Anorak’s study—a room in the highest tower that I alone could enter, thanks to the Robes of Anorak I now wore. The obsidian-black garment endowed my avatar with the godlike powers Halliday’s own avatar had once possessed.

I glanced around the cluttered study. Here, just over a week ago, Anorak had declared me the winner of Halliday’s contest and changed my life forever.

My eyes fell upon the painting of a black dragon that hung on the wall. Beneath it stood an ornate crystal pedestal with a jewel-encrusted chalice resting on top of it. And cradled within the chalice was the object I’d spent so many years searching for: Halliday’s silver Easter egg.

I walked over to admire it, and that was when I noticed something strange—an inscription on the egg’s otherwise pristine surface. One that definitely hadn’t been there when I’d last seen it, nine days earlier.

No other avatars could enter this room. No one could’ve tampered with the egg. So there was only one way that inscription could’ve gotten there. Halliday himself must have programmed it to appear on the egg’s surface. It could have appeared right after Anorak gave me his robes, and I’d just been too distracted to notice.

I bent down to read the inscription: GSS—13th Floor—Vault #42–8675309.

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keksisbaby•

30. Okt. 2023

Der zweite Teil bleibt weit hinter dem ersten. Insbesondere die exzessiven verweise auf Popkultur der 80ger hat mich gelangweilt und das obwohl ich doch fast der Zielgruppe entspreche. Es war anstrengend zu lesen und der Spaß blieb mit jeder Scherbe weiter auf der Strecke.

simply_y•

10. Apr. 2024

3.5

Short on the emotional state of volume one.

When I read Ready Player One, I've struggled with longing for the OASIS for MONTHS. I've wanted to experience the technology of that age and day, wanted to travel through one world in which all the other games existet, all with one single avatar. My mind was completely compelled and I yearned for a quest like the Easter Egg's. So of course I bought Ready Player Two, expecting the same emotional state as in volume one. Sadly, the second book didn't deliver. At all. During the first quarter of the book I've felt lost and a bit annoyed about Wade's weird change in character. ## SPOILERS FROM THIS POSITION ONWARD ## Wade is a freaking geek gunter, sniffing up each detail he can find about his idol and the OASIS. That he simply stopped doing that after becoming a billionaire seems highly unlikely to me, so the first quarter of the book was just unrealistic to me. I can somewhat understand that Samantha split up with him over the ONI, however. The whole of the book seemed somehow detached from emotional depth, except when Ogden dies. It's the only time I actually shed a tear. All other events just slipped by, being nothing more than a "meh". And I think that's pretty sad. All in all it was an okayish read. Just not what I expected, and therefore didn't fulfill my expectations.

katziliest•

22. März 2025

Würdiger Nachfolger für Ready Player One. Hätte ich nicht gedacht.

missxoxolat•

1. März 2025

Was für ein Schwachsinn! "Ready Player One" habe ich geliebt, auch den Film fand ich gut gemacht. Aber die Fortsetzung ist die reinste Katastrophe. Sinnlose Aneinanderreihungen von Retro-Film-, Fernseh-, Buchtitel, Sängern und Bands. Langweilig zu lesen. Wirklich schade. Ich habe mir mehr erwartet.

calenlad•

7. Sept. 2022

Wow. Even worse than I expected.

lese87maus•

8. Juni 2023

Leider war die Fortsetzung von #ReadyPlayerOne für mich eine Enttäuschung. Den ersten Teil habe ich als #Buch und #Film sehr gemocht. Es ist halt wie so oft, der 2te Band war so nie vorgesehen und wäre für mich auch absolut nicht notwendig gewesen. Er hat bestimmt seine Fans aber ich behalte lieber Band 1 in meinem Herzen und beende damit auch die Reihe.

Unknown User•

24. März 2023

the first part dragged and overall I wasn’t sure whether I would enjoy it at all, but the second part made the novel way more enjoyable and even though the ending was a little mushy I enjoyed it, even though RP2 will never be as good as RP1

adlutz•

14. Jan. 2024

Nowhere as near compelling as the first. The conflict was great, but the individual quests to find the shards were too random and uninteresting.

demievrything•

20. Mai 2023

I forced myself through it but wanted to dnf it up until the ending, it felt like nothing was happening and then a bunch of things happened all at once. The characters felt flat, there was no real development and the ending felt too forced and too metaphorically perfect. I was happy with Ready Player One being a great standalone novel. Maybe I'll pretend it still is. I thought I couldn't be more disappointed by a book after reading A Court of Frost and Starlight at the beginning of the year. I guess I was wrong. But isn't it ironic that the first and last review of my year were severe disappointments?