Ready Player Two
An unexpected quest. Two worlds at stake. Are you ready? Days after Oasis founder James Halliday's contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything. Hidden within Halliday's vault, waiting for his heir to find, lies a technological advancement that will once again change the world and make the Oasis a thousand times more wondrous, and addictive, than even Wade dreamed possible. With it comes a new riddle and a new quest. A last Easter egg from Halliday, hinting at a mysterious prize. And an unexpected, impossibly powerful, and dangerous new rival awaits, one who will kill millions to get what he wants. Wade's life and the future of the Oasis are again at stake, but this time the fate of humanity also hangs in the balance.
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- Star Wars Thrawn Trilogy
Battlefield Earth (the book, definitely not the movie)
The Land: Founding - Aleron Kong
Steel World - B.V. Larson
Ready Player One / Ready Player Two - Ernest Cline
Twinborn Chronicles - J.S. Morin
The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
- My comment will be flagged and removed which will cause me to reach out to Dang, pg, Jessica and others.
Also watch Under the Silver Lake and read the book Ready Player Two. Plus music is a good way to try to understand the nature of reality.
I cannot believe that Hacker News has become infected by authoritarianism. At least the IRC is still free. Come to EFNet if you want to find real hackers and cypherpunks.
- Maybe I'm succumbing to the cynical zeitgeist, but I figure the future will be primarily whatever the wealthy minority wants. If that's so, then maybe the best hope for people like me is a future like the one portrayed in the opening of Ready Player Two (generally not a very good book), where a VR-obsessed multi-billionaire funds work on neural interfaces, starting with implants for disabled people and culminating in the OASIS Neural Interface headset. Yes, it would feel wrong to be used as a means to an end, but it would answer the question of how a world-dominating VR as depicted in those books could be made accessible.
- The sequel to the novel Ready Player One, predictably called Ready Player Two, begins by introducing an OASIS Neural Interface (ONI) headset, which paralyzes the body and directly connects the brain to the OASIS VR. To develop this technology in secret, the creator of the OASIS set up an "Accessibility Research Lab" to develop implants for various categories of disabled people, then moved on to develop the headset.
As a disabled (legally blind) person myself, I had mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, it felt like we (well, the disabled people in the fictional world) were being used as means to an end. On the other hand, one of my unanswered questions from the first book was what the rise of a VR like the OASIS would mean for people like us; I felt that the second book provided a satisfying answer (in the fictional world, if not in the real one).
To be clear, the sequel was panned, for good reasons IMO. I chose to read it before looking at the reviews. I don't recommend it, but this comment reminded me of it.
- Ready Player Two. I kid, skip it unless you really liked Ready Player One.
Dune, to prepare for the movie, I love this book but I could see some of the flaws now that I'm older. The book's recognition that politics is an art and cam be studied, mastered and manipulated brought some of recent history into sharp relief.
- Yeah I similarly have pretty fond memories of the whole atmosphere of the game, although in retrospect I've mostly forgotten the characters and what they were like. Unlike with many other adventure games, I can't even recall a single one-liner.
The fate of the alien civilization revealed at the end still has resonance to me in an age where people are talking about uploading their consciousness or living out the rest of eternity in some Ready Player Two digital-ethereal realm.
