Ernest Cline
Author
Series
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
"An exuberantly realized, exciting, and sweet-natured cyber-quest. Cline's imaginative and rollicking coming-of-age geek saga has a smash-hit vibe."--Booklist, starred review
"Ready Player One takes place in the not-so-distant future--the world has turned into a very bleak place, but luckily there is OASIS, a virtual reality world that is a vast online utopia. People can plug into OASIS to play, go to school, earn money, and even meet other people...
Author
Lexile measure
1110L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's just another day of high school for Zack Lightman. He's daydreaming through another boring math class, with just one more month to go until graduation and freedom--if he can make it that long without getting suspended again. Then he glances out his classroom window and spots the flying saucer. At first, Zack thinks he's going crazy. A minute later, he's sure of it. Because the UFO he's staring at is straight out of the videogame he plays every...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
314 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
After her mother's death, thirteen-year-old Opal moves to her uncle's farm where she befriends a group of orphaned, music-loving bats and summons the courage to protect them from a mining company as she attempts to find them a new home.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Special edition ; Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 140 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's 2045, with the world on the brink of chaos and collapse, but the people have found salvation in the OASIS, an expansive virtual reality universe created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday. When Halliday dies, he leaves his immense fortune to the first person to find a digital Easter egg he has hidden somewhere in the OASIS, sparking a contest that grips the entire world. When an unlikely young hero named Wade Watts decides to join...
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xix, 507 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
". . . [An anthology of short stories that] explore what happens when video games and science fiction collide. From text-based adventures to first-person shooters, dungeon crawlers to horror games, these twenty-six stories play with our notion of what video games can be -- and what they can become -- in smart and singular ways." -- Page [4] of cover.