If you read "Ready Player One" and want to play a game...

This is for people who read Ready Player One. If you only saw the movie, this won't exactly work for you, because the movie is very different from the book.

Ernest Cline has a sequel coming out next year, entitled Ready Player Two. He has been tight-lipped about it. So I got to thinking, if I were going to write the sequel, where would I take it? After all, Wade is incalculably rich, has the girl of his dreams, owns the Oasis and an invulnerable avatar, and even has the power to kill the Oasis! What's left for him to achieve?

He feared that Sorento "might not even go to jail" for the murders of Daito and the stacks residents. So, where should the story go?

And, while Ready Player Two is a cute sequel name, is it indicative of more? If Wade is, presumably, "Player One," then who is "Player Two?" Will the focus shift to At3mis? Aech? Shoto? Someone new?

Will Wade and Artie make good on their plan to try to make the world a better place? And if so, what will Sorento's reaction be? Will it take place mostly in the Oasis, or more in the real world, where you can get a good meal?

Have at it!

Oooh, having read the book this past summer, and watched the movie a few times, I know what you mean [book vs. movie]..

As with a lot of sequels: "Marty, it's your kids!!"

Maybe Sam & Wade's kids:

• Fall into trouble in the Oasis
• [their generation] looses their love of the oasis (to mirror FB today, how FB is more for us grown ups, vs. Snapchat or instagram)
• Become a threat to the Oasis
• Find a loop-hole in the oasis that .. a 4th key.. something taht [the main guy] had secretly put in that no one, not even Oggi, knew about..
• That the Oasis & reality have become so blurred that they start a movement to escape & switch off / get back to reality (Kinda like how FB is becoming integrated into our daily lives..)

Wade becomes Sorento. He becomes large & narcissistic & greedy with power.. (And has disowned the other 5)

Maybe the new OS [WIndows 23!!] recent upgrade has rendered the Oasis unstable & people are getting stuck in VR land..

Rivals in the IOI / Oasis creation / upgrade / programming dept stage a coup, with Sorento (or a Sorento henchman) in the lead..

The world crashes / technology collapses, plunging people back to reality, but the reality of the 1900/s!! The power grid, tech, modern tech is lost (like the end of 'Foundation')

dr wogz said:

Oooh, having read the book this past summer, and watched the movie a few times, I know what you mean [book vs. movie]..

As with a lot of sequels: "Marty, it's your kids!!"

Maybe Sam & Wade's kids:

• Fall into trouble in the Oasis
• [their generation] looses their love of the oasis (to mirror FB today, how FB is more for us grown ups, vs. Snapchat or instagram)
• Become a threat to the Oasis
• Find a loop-hole in the oasis that .. a 4th key.. something taht [the main guy] had secretly put in that no one, not even Oggi, knew about..
• That the Oasis & reality have become so blurred that they start a movement to escape & switch off / get back to reality (Kinda like how FB is becoming integrated into our daily lives..)

Wade becomes Sorento. He becomes large & narcissistic & greedy with power.. (And has disowned the other 5)

Maybe the new OS [WIndows 23!!] recent upgrade has rendered the Oasis unstable & people are getting stuck in VR land..

Rivals in the IOI / Oasis creation / upgrade / programming dept stage a coup, with Sorento (or a Sorento henchman) in the lead..

The world crashes / technology collapses, plunging people back to reality, but the reality of the 1900/s!! The power grid, tech, modern tech is lost (like the end of 'Foundation')

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Cool. Totally not what I was thinking, which is what makes this fun.

My idea so far is that it takes place at least ten years later than RP1. Sam and Wade are married and running the Oasis, with Aech and Shoto holding executive positions. Who knows what the laws are in 2054? So Sorento's sentence gets commuted due to overcrowding of prisons. He walks. And he knows a way to render Wade's avatar as destructible once again.

Wade and Samantha have been working to revolutionize farming, housing, and water supplies, and are making progress. But Sorento is still jealous and looking for vengeance, and still wants the Oasis for profit. IOI has long since fired Sorento for his criminal activities and the bad press he gave them, but he has a stash of wealth and is using it undermine Wade/Artie's efforts.

i like that too, although similar to my thoughts on my option about Sorento teaming up with the IOI's programmers for a [2nd] uprising to seize power once again..

I could also see a similarity to the movie "Surrogates", I keep getting drawn into this type of premise though, as the sequel..

76 views, but it looks like it's just you and I, Doc.

I heard about the book some years ago, but didn't want to buy it. I kept waiting for it at the library, but it was always out. I didn't want to put a hold in it. Then the movie came out, and I didn't go see it because I wanted to read the book first.

A few months ago, I downloaded the audiobook on Libby, read by Will Wheaton. I was mesmerized. Immediately declared it my favorite book of all time. When I finished it, I went and bought the paperback and read it again. Then I saw the movie. I thought the movie was good for what it was, but, of course, it's just not the book.

I got so nostalgic for the videogames of my childhood that I bought an Atari Flashback 9. My kids love it! Frogger, Missile Command, Space Invaders, Asteroids, Centipede, Adventure, Pitfall!, and a slew of others. So much fun!

The stacks etc. are a sim within a sim, and our hero becomes unsure whether he's real or not.

An element within the virtual world becomes self-aware and people are splicing their meatsuits for fuller immersion in this dangerously addictive ( and spreading ) realm.

Our hero struggles with no longer struggling, his lifetime of defense mechanisms now betraying everything he thought he wanted.

We relive the entire story through the eyes of a "minor character" who was off busy doing important things while RP1 was happening.

I don't think any of these are particularly likely as sequels, but I would probably read any of them.

I should re-read the book. I read it in ~2014 or so (maybe 2015?) and that was long enough ago that the detail has blurred in my mind, in particular because the overlay of the movie and the differences between the movie and the book create a dissonance. I preferred the book version where Wade was an employee of the sixer company for a while, and the way he hacked their system as portrayed in the book.

Marc_G said:

I should re-read the book. I read it in ~2014 or so (maybe 2015?) and that was long enough ago that the detail has blurred in my mind, in particular because the overlay of the movie and the differences between the movie and the book create a dissonance. I preferred the book version where Wade was an employee of the sixer company for a while, and the way he hacked their system as portrayed in the book.

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Lots of cool things in the book that were left out of the movie. Granted, had they filmed the book as written, it would have been six hours long and would have had to include two entire other films in it ("War Games", "Monty Python and the Holy Grail").

Not having Wade meet Samantha until the final pages was also more to my liking. It was that last "big thing" to look forward to after the story had resolved.

dhbarr said:

The stacks etc. are a sim within a sim, and our hero becomes unsure whether he's real or not.

An element within the virtual world becomes self-aware and people are splicing their meatsuits for fuller immersion in this dangerously addictive ( and spreading ) realm.

Our hero struggles with no longer struggling, his lifetime of defense mechanisms now betraying everything he thought he wanted.

We relive the entire story through the eyes of a "minor character" who was off busy doing important things while RP1 was happening.

I don't think any of these are particularly likely as sequels, but I would probably read any of them.

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I can't help but think that Ernest Cline will stick with what made the first book popular, and that is the 60s - 80s nostalgia. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm guessing the plot will necessitate more needing to know 80s trivia. However, considering the ending, when he realized that for the first time in his life, he wasn't looking forward to logging back into the Oasis, more of it will take place in the real world.

So I am thinking -- how would he incorporate 80s geekdom, Oasis adventure, real world adventure, and the re-emergence of Sorento into a cohesive plot?