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Ready Player One

Written by Ernest Cline

Narrated by Wil Wheaton

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

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At once wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, Ready Player One is a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debut-part quest novel, part love story, and part virtual space opera set in a universe where spell-slinging mages battle giant Japanese robots, entire planets are inspired by Blade Runner, and flying DeLoreans achieve light speed.

It's the year 2044, and the real world is an ugly place.

Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes his grim surroundings by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia that lets you be anything you want to be, a place where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets.

And like most of humanity, Wade dreams of being the one to discover the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this virtual world. For somewhere inside this giant networked playground, OASIS creator James Halliday has hidden a series of fiendish puzzles that will yield massive fortune-and remarkable power-to whoever can unlock them.

For years, millions have struggled fruitlessly to attain this prize, knowing only that Halliday's riddles are based in the pop culture he loved-that of the late twentieth century. And for years, millions have found in this quest another means of escape, retreating into happy, obsessive study of Halliday's icons. Like many of his contemporaries, Wade is as comfortable debating the finer points of John Hughes's oeuvre, playing Pac-Man, or reciting Devo lyrics as he is scrounging power to run his OASIS rig.

And then Wade stumbles upon the first puzzle.

Suddenly the whole world is watching, and thousands of competitors join the hunt-among them certain powerful players who are willing to commit very real murder to beat Wade to this prize. Now the only way for Wade to survive and preserve everything he knows is to win. But to do so, he may have to leave behind his oh-so-perfect virtual existence and face up to life-and love-in the real world he's always been so desperate to escape.

A world at stake.
A quest for the ultimate prize.
Are you ready?

Editor's Note

Pop culture nostalgia…

Cline’s novel is a thick barrage of nerdy pop culture nostalgia, formed into the shape of a post-apocalyptic bildungsroman. Narrated by Wil Wheaton, this book is full of moments that will make any true superfan chuckle.

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Release dateAug 16, 2011
ISBN9780307913159
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  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    YA for nerdy genXers. Popcorn addictive. (fluffy and a few bits stick in your craw) Getting Wil Wheaton to narrate the audiobook was a fabulous idea.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I loved this book! It was recommended to me by a friend who said I’d like it even though I don’t like sci-fi. To clarify, I don’t like hard sci-fi. I like things that seem like they could happen, like dystopia and robots and establishing a life on other planets. This book was amazing because it could be read as a statement on what direction the world is going in - so much is done online, not face-to-face. Life seems so great on Facebook but it’s not in reality, etc.

    Wade basically lives in the OASIS, an online world that’s better than the real world, especially considering that people live in trailers stacked on each other. He squats in an abandoned van to log in to the OASIS and become Parzival, an avatar who is still in high school, but is searching for the egg the OASIS creator left encoded in the game before he died. I don’t want to give too much away, but this book totally sucked me in, and I already want to re-read it!
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    [Cross-posted to Knite Writes]Okay, so this book is basically a young (male) geek’s ultimate dream — from the smart, down-on-his-luck orphan protagonist to the kickass gamer girl who’s really only there to be a love interest to the impossible quests the protagonist somehow keeps winning despite all odds. Premise-wise, there is very little about this book that strays outside of today’s common “boy hero” tropes, and if it wasn’t for the incredible world-building and downright zany plot, Ready Player One would have fallen flatter than a pancake for me.As it stands, I found this a pretty fun (but sometimes tedious) read.Firstly, you need to be aware that this book contains more pop culture references than any other book you will ever read in your life. Video games. TV. Movies. Anime. Books. You name it, it’s in this story — and all of it is focused on the 80s. So, if you were born later than that, prepare to be lost on many occasions when the story goes off on a tangent regarding some piece of 80s trivia you are completely unaware of. Don’t worry, though, because most of the time the nature of the trivia in question is explained in detail.Which brings me to my biggest criticism of the book — I think it’s best I get this out of the way early: this story suffers from a horrific amount of info-dumping. In my opinion, an unacceptable amount of info-dumping. Dumping that goes on for pages and pages and pages, to the point where it’s often easy to lose track of what’s actually happening with the plot because said plot has come to a virtual standstill. There are info-dumps as filler, info-dumps in the middle of action scenes, info-dumps at pivotal moments. Info-dumps. Info-dumps. Info-dumps. Everywhere!And every last one is an in-depth explanation about an element of 80s pop culture the average person has no desire to know.You’ve been warned.If that doesn’t throw you off attempting this book, though, then let’s move on.Despite the info-dumpy nature of the narrative, it actually proves to be a fairly fun read as time goes on. The OASIS contains so many elements from so many shows, movies, books, anime, etc. all combined into one, massive world that you’ll have a hard time not smiling at the abundance of references strewn about as the plot progresses. Reading some of the battle scenes made my day — because, more often than not, the battles involved objects from a variety of fiction I was familiar with. Picturing such vastly different things being involved in the same fights amused me to no end.The OASIS in this book is basically a simultaneous crossover of every single piece of fiction (across all mediums) ever created. It’s pretty fascinating. And makes for a great setting for the majority of the book.The characters, on the other hand, were a little lacking in the originality department. I didn’t like how Art3mis ended up relegated to love interest more and more as the book went on. I didn’t like how shallow and underdeveloped most of the major characters were. The bad guys were the fairly generic “evil corporation” types often present in cyberpunk and other futuristic sci-fi; there wasn’t anything particularly special about Sorrento or his vast, anonymous army of Sixers.That being said, however, I did think the main characters made for an interesting gang of heroes (even with their lack of development), and the final showdown against the antagonists is pretty spectacular (even with their generic nature).Overall, I found this book a mixed bag — in the end, it was an enjoyable read, but there were a lot of parts (i.e., the info-dumps) I found tedious to get through, to the point where I occasionally ended up skimming a few passages here and there. The plot fulfills the premise in an unfortunately straightforward way and doesn’t deviate at all from some pretty tired tropes about boy heroes and rags-to-riches stories; despite this issue, though, it still builds a fairly interesting and engaging narrative. Lastly, the characters are lacking in a lot of ways, but, thanks largely to the amazing setting, are able to hold interest throughout the story.A decent read, in my opinion, but nothing to write home about.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Originally posted at The Wandering Fangirl.Possibly the biggest love letter to nerds and 80s pop culture out there to date, Ready Player One following Wade, aka Parzival, as he hunts for a treasure within the virtual reality game he spends most of his time in. Aside from the fun of the virtual reality and pop culture references, what makes this book really resonate is the way Wade grows as he deals with friends, enemies, and the difference between his virtual world and the real one. At times I felt the book dragged on a bit with all the pop culture descriptions and the length of time between the moments the action picked up again, but I always sprang right back when things got interesting again. It's incredibly fun, engaging, and as someone born in the middle of the 80s, it made me feel so awesome to know about 98% of all the pop culture references.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Ready Player One is Ernest Cline's debut novel, released by Crown Publishing in August 2011. Cline is probably best known for his work as a screenwriter for the film Fanboys (which I haven't actually seen but have been meaning to). When I was first offered a copy of Ready Player One, I hesitated accepting but not for long. I may not have been familiar with Cline and his previous work, but I couldn't resist wanting to see what was in store from an author who gladly discussed Space Invaders, The Lord of the Rings, Cowboy Bebop, Ultraman and all sorts of other wonderful geeky things all within the same interview. Cline is a self-proclaimed geek and clearly a man after my own heart. The more I learned about his novel, the more excited I became to read Ready Player One. The reviews and publicity I've seen for the book have been overwhelmingly positive and the novel has already been optioned for a film. (I think it would make a pretty good one, too.)In a bleak near future, most of humanity spends most of their time logged into OASIS if they can afford it. Originally, OASIS was developed as a gaming platform but it has since evolved into an immense and highly complex alternate reality system. It's also one of the only ways that people can escape their depressing lives and a world that is crumbling around them. When James Halliday, the creator of OASIS, dies, he announces a contest: he's hidden an Easter egg somewhere in OASIS and whoever finds it first will inherit his entire fortune. But first, the participants will have to find a set of three keys and three gates to lead them there. Five years pass before the first key is found, unexpectedly by an impoverished high school student named Wade Watts. Now Wade's life has gotten a lot more interesting, and a lot more dangerous.Ready Player One is inundated with pop culture references. Most important are those from the eighties, but any part of geekdom before or after that is still fair game. This includes references to films, video games, books, and just about anything else. I know for a fact that I didn't catch everything but I was completely delighted when I did, which was often enough that I found myself grinning through most of the novel. What really sold me on the book was a heated conversation early on between two characters about the relative merits and worth of Richard Donner's film Ladyhawke as an eighties classic. Some of the pop culture references aren't incorporated into the plot as well as they could be, but at least Cline has created a semi-legitimate reason for them to be there. And those that are really important to the story he makes sure to explain in more detail for readers that aren't in the know.Ready Player One is pure escapism for a very specific audience. I don't think that Cline will win any new converts to geekdom through his novel, but for those of us that are already devotees (and there are quite a few of us out there), Ready Player One is an absolute blast. Granted, the novel isn't breaking any ground; there's nothing new here that I haven't seen before. The plot and characters are fairly straightforward and don't show much development. The book doesn't have a deep, hidden meaning, although Cline does cram a few moral lessons in at the end. Still, I found Cline's world-building interesting, even if he has a tendency to infodump towards the beginning, and he's come up with a good excuse for esoteric pop culture geekery to not only be accepted but valued in society. If nothing else, Ready Player One is a lot of fun; sometimes you just want to be entertained.Experiments in Reading
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This book gets better every time I listen to it! 😁
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory meets Neuromancer meets I Love the 80s. Delightfully nerdy, especially as much of geek culture was born in the 80s (video games, D&D, etc.), but if you're not super familiar with much of the source materials (80s mecha anime? arcade games?) it's easy to get lost. My brother's of the opinion that you either love this book or hate it for the 80s infodumps.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Really enjoyed this read, although the ending was quite predictable. Lovers of 80s culture will be quite entertained!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I LOVED this. I won't spend too much time on this review, because you can tell from the overall rating that it's a great read, but you should know that I LOVED this book. It's intelligent, it's funny, it's a love letter to all things 80's nostalgia and it has the kind of plot line that makes me smile because it all wraps up beautifully. Were there perhaps some convenient things that happened now and then? Sure. Did I have any nagging questions left at the end though? No, I did not. That makes me more happy than I can express. I had a blast navigating this world with Wade, but I loved that all the main characters got enough love to be really fleshed out and enjoyable. I also so appreciated the attention to detail in the world building, both inside and outside the simulation. I felt like I was there, and that made all the difference. This book was excellent. Period, end of discussion. I'm glad I finally buckled down and read it!
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Ernest Cline has written something, alright.If you are not into geeky things, just turn back now. I enjoyed this book for all the references, but the storyline itself was meh.The writing was excellent as well, but, set in a dystopian not-so-distant future where everyone turns to OASIS, a simulation, to escape the reality of the world… Not a fan. Why don’t they try to fix it? The main character, Wade, is on a quest (along with everyone else) to find the Easter egg that the creator of OASIS left in game after he died. The winner? Gets his fortune and the company that made the game.Yeah, there is a prize for you! If you enjoyed Monty Python, read this book. If you are into all the geeky things, read this book. It is an interesting journey and one that I did enjoy.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Some of the set-up was feeling overly derivative in the beginning - and the writer's style and abilities grew from chapter to chapter (with a couple hiccoughs in the beginning) - - but it grew on me in a big way and became a book I hated to put down.

    I was an 80's kid, myself, and there are many juicy rewards for readers of my generation in here. Also, some ponderous obsessions (Silver Spoons... really?) - but for the most part, wonderful reminders of a time period and a spirit that pervades the whole novel - right through the conclusion.

    Ready Player One is a lot like Snowcrash, with more of a YA vibe, and fewer of the pretensions that slightly weighed down Snowcrash.

    It's such a good feeling to read a book that lives up to its hype and promise. Don't read it for depth - it honestly strikes me as a YA book and I'm surprised it isn't categorized as one - but it's some quality escapism, about the qualities of escapism.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I was very much looking forward to reading this to see what all the buzz was about. The story concept is really good, and I loved the odes to 80s geek culture.

    But the way that the plot played out was SOOOOO simplistic! Stupid plot devices abound that remove any challenge to the protagonist. I wondered if this was just a YA book which started out with a lot more promise. Could have been really memorable, but in the end, it was a throwaway read with a great starting point.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I really did not expect to read this book, nor to like it. So many friends read it and liked it and many were people I wouldn't have expected to read this book either.Cline just really hooked me with his story. My interest never waned; I was always eager to get back to the story.Yes, it's dystopian, but I got past that.This will surely be one of my favorite books this year.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Fantastic book! Fun, nostalgic, edgy! Just skyrocketed to one of my favorites of all time...
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    2.5 stars. Ready Player One reminded me, at first glance, of a weird mash-up of The Westing Game and the great anime film Summer Wars, just without a modicum of depth of either. It's a really easy book to read, and the second half is honestly engaging enough that I had a hard time putting it down. But here's my biggest problem with Ready Player One--in Cline's efforts to provide an ultimate geek-out experience of non-stop '80s/'90s nerd culture references, the book is little more than a collection of name-drops with a layer of story slapped on. Many of the classic video games and movies and comics and books he mentions are great, but for specific reasons. Cline never gets into that, instead being content to just say how awesome such and such thing is and move on. Plus, the other problems: the few stabs at depth are present-day hot-topic issues jammed into the story for a sentence or two; and the cool geeky protagonists are kind of awful people (at worst) or character cut-outs (at best). But hey, it's really readable, and I'd lie if I said I wasn't blazing through the second half.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Though I enjoyed the premise of the book, the whiny teenage male protagonist annoyed me just enough that I couldn't truly enjoy it.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    After reading the review of the movie, I wondered how a book set in the future could have so many pop culture references and yet be confined to the 80s. The book quickly explained that aspect for me. I am not a gamer of any kind but I found the novel compelling nonetheless. The world of OASIS was so rich that the descriptions of real life were easily overlooked or forgotten. I found the online relationships so rich and it direct opposition to the IRL social life of Wade. The race to win the game was compelling and exciting
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This was a July SFF/SFFFKIT book. It took me a while to get into this one. At one point I noticed that the movie was available on pay per view. I thought it might help me read the book faster if I watch the movie. The movie was so different from the parts of the book that I'd read already that it made me mad. But it also made me want to finish the book which is so much better than the movie. Set in a dystopian future where everyone spends most of their time with their heads in a Virtual world, mainly playing games. When the inventor of this virtual world - The Oasis- dies, he leaves his billions to the person who can find an egg that he has hidden. Wade, aka Parzival, a poor high school student, finds himself among the top 5 contenders in the race for Halliday's Egg.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Ready Player One Book Review
    by Author Ernest Cline
    I’m giving this book 4.5 easter eggs out of 5.
    One of the ways I judge a book is by its gravity, so to speak. Do I feel pulled toward it? In other words, when I was away from the book, did I feel like I needed to get back to it. If a day went by without reading it, did it bother me? I listened to the audiobook version of Ready Player One, and let me tell you, it pushed all my buttons (ha!)
    When my wife asked me if I’d be willing to go pick my daughter up from dance, or to go to the store or (fill in the blank) I quickly said, “yes,” thinking that it was another opportunity for me to flip the audiobook on and keep plugging away at it or a few more minutes.
    Set in the future, Ready Player One is, in so many ways, an homage to 80’s culture. Movies, music, styles, and especially video games all play a critical role in the plot. When a former video game developer, and rich business mogul learns that he only has a short time to live, he constructs an elaborate contest that he has placed inside the Oasis (online MMORPG type world). There are three phases (gates/keys) to the contest, and the first one to get through them all, wins “the egg,” or his ultimate prize—all his wealth and assets—billions.
    The story revolves around a less fortunate, yet brilliant, young guy named Wade that spends all his time on the Oasis. Like many others, he is devouring anything he about the 80’s in an attempt to figure out how to progress in the contest. James Halliday, the billionaire that created the contest that would take over just about everyone’s heart and mind, loved the 80’s, and was rumored to have based the whole contest on 80’s pop culture. So, everyone studied up in order to be able to play the game, including Wade. This was Halliday’s way of resurrecting the 80’s, maybe buying it an extra life, as it were—deposit your quarter, right here, thank you very much.
    The author does a fabulous job world building not only interesting things about the 80’s, but the futuristic world that would obsess about a dead man’s fortune, and stop at nothing to get it.
    This book was a wild right down memory lane. I’m proud to say that I got most of his references. I did have to look a few up, however. At any rate, the book is well-written, and the plot was good fun. It has murder, mystery, tons of 80’s backstory, and even romance.
    I really enjoyed this book.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This book was amazing! I cannot believe it took me so long to pick it up and read.



  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Wow! This is a popular book--it’s always checked out! I finally decided to read it by listening to it. You may have seen the movie, but I’m sure the book is very different. It’s a lengthy book that couldn’t really be done easily in two hours, so you’re probably missing out on a lot if you haven’t read the book.Wade Watts has a non-stellar life. His parents are gone and he lives with his aunt who is awful. He dislikes school because he doesn’t fit in. The year is 2045 and the world is not a great place. People are starving and only a few have money. Wade lives in the “stacks”--so many people are poor that they stack trailer homes-- one on top of another until they are many, many stories high. It’s very dangerous. Wade can escape this terrible world because he is great with computers. There is an alternate world called the Oasis. You can put on your haptic clothing and live in the Oasis, only coming back to the real world for food and bathroom breaks. Wade loves that he has been accepted to attend school in the Oasis, giving him a better unit to interact with this world.Five years previously the inventor of the Oasis died. He left a puzzle for people to solve. Whoever solves it first inherits his very vast fortune. At the very beginning of the novel, Wade says that he is the one who solves the puzzle. The rest of the novel is how he solved it and the obstacles he overcame with courage. Wade is the first person to solve the first puzzle, which is where he meets Artemis, a famous gamer. He also has a best friend he calls “H” because he won’t tell him his real name--only that it begins with an “H.” Within a short time, Artemis, H, and two more people get past the first gate. They have to fight against the huge corporation that is trying to get the fortune as well, but they don’t want to team up. They each want to win on their own to show they were smart enough to figure it out. Circumstances will require that they help each other.I am not a gamer at all. I don’t enjoy video games; I appreciate the abilities needed to understand and be amazing at them and even the coding that people are capable of accomplishing. I’ve never gushed about a book that takes places around and in computers. This is a book for gamers; it was fine/okay, but I didn’t love it. I am not interested in the gaming descriptions; I wanted something to happen. Kids have loved this book for several years, so I know it’s really popular; our copy is falling apart. Therefore, if you are a gamer, read this novel. All the kids at our school say you’ll love it!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I do hate nostalgia, I cannot stand it stil love this book. Obvious that the writer LOVES and knows the geek subculture and wants to share this with everyone. The story not a very unique one, basically the tale of the smallest poor boy who conquers the three quests and gets the love of the princess and the half of the kingdom. But it’s ok, we need fairy tales.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Thoroughly enjoyed this one. All the 80s references were so fun. Such a blast from the past. I’m not sure what took me so long to read this but I’m so glad I did. I just hope the movie is as fun. 5 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Great book! Warning: If you like the book a lot and decide to see the movie, it's best if you think of it as an entirely different movie not related to the book. Other than the character names and some basic data, VERY little from the movie is taken from the book. It's an okay movie, but it would have been a good movie if they'd changed all the character names and told me it had nothing to do with this book...
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I thought the story line of this book was creative. I have enjoyed gaming in the past but was not familiar with many of the games that were mentioned. The heroine of the story is resourceful. I can understand why it was made into a movie since it includes romance. It is true that the life of some people is happier in a gaming community than in real life.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Good story and plot. The book is written in a too "simplistic" way, not really appealing. Even though it is part of the point of this book to talk about many 80's cultural aspects, it sometimes feels too much like a "listing" of games, songs, shows, movies which are coming a little bit out of nowhere.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I'm convinced that Ernest Cline is a genius (as is Wade Watts).The book was brilliant, yet wordy. I was getting tired of all the descriptions and being as I listened to this on audio, I couldn't exactly skim over those parts as I probably would have if I read the book.I've wanted to read this for a long time and then my son read it and I figured I should now step up and read it so we could talk about it. Reading it after him, yikes. It's labeled YA, he's 11.5 and I figured that he was reading so the good outweigh the bad but some of the scenes made me cringe as I listened to it knowing that he read the same.There's not much to say about the book that hasn't already been said. I couldn't always wrap my brain around this massive virtual reality (especially at the beginning, it got a little easier as I went) game. I'm not a gamer but man if I wasn't relating to stuff I hear my kids say when playing Fortnite. LOLAll of the 80's references were wonderful.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I loved this book. Loved it! I think anyone who's ever been a huge fan of video games would love it. The thought of a fully immersive virtual reality is something that's been explored by other authors, in fact Tad Williams did it well in his Otherland series. But Ready player one takes you there in a fast paced, nonstop adventure. I'll probably read this one again someday!
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Ready Player One is a fun, exciting trip down memory lane for anybody who is of the Gen-X generation (which includes me). Wade Watts (aka Parzival) is a high school student in the not too distant future where the real world is collapsing from climate change, overpopulation, a prolonged energy crisis and food rationing. While the world is falling apart most people spend nearly all of their time in the virtual world of the OASIS, a computer generated place filled with hundreds of different worlds. More than a game simulation, the OASIS is where people work, shop, and go to school all through the comfort of their home. Now, the creator of the OASIS (James Donovan Halliday) has died and hidden an easter egg in the OASIS, the one who finds it will be given control of the OASIS as well as Halliday's vast fortune. I thoroughly enjoyed the book and all of the nostalgia and memories it brought back for me. All of the pop culture references - books, movies, music, video games, role-playing games (except for the giant robots, since I am not very familiar with Japanese mangas and anime with giant robots) were entertaining and fun. They helped to make a geek like me feel like that my life hadn't been wasted on memorizing movie lines or playing hours of video games. (Not that I expect to be able to hunt in a virtual world to find a vast treasure using these skills. Bummer.) There were many times during the story where I would nod my head at some anecdote or mention of a game or song or movie, or I would laugh aloud at a reference made. There were opportunities for Cline to have done things differently I felt, that would have added to the tension. A minor character early in the book who is a rival of Parzival and his best friend Aech just disappears and I felt there was an opportunity squandered to have made him a strong foil by joining the bad guys and becoming an obstacle in Parzival's search for the easter egg. While the action is fast paced at times there were also points where the story bogged a bit in an info dump. This wasn't often, but it was distracting from the story's pace. But overall Cline has created a very fun and exciting world with a strong character in Wade (Parzival).
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A very interesting concept for a book and not too far fetched on what our future might someday look like.