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Ready Player One

novel by Ernest Cline
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Summary

Ready Player One is a literary work[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of literary work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,514 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Author: Ernest Cline[3]
  • Award received: Alex Award[4], Prometheus Award[5]
  • Publisher: Crown Publishing Group[6], AST[7]
  • Genre: cyberpunk[8], LitRPG[9], science fiction[10], adventure fiction[11], dystopian fiction[12]
  • Followed by: Ready Player Two[13]
  • Language of work or name: English[14]
  • Country of origin: United States[15]
  • Inception: 2011[16]
  • Publication date: August 16, 2011[17]
  • Characters: Parzival[18], Art3mis[19], James Halliday[20]
  • Has edition or translation: Ready Player One[21], Ready Player One: Hra začíná[22]

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Prose[23]

  • MusicBrainz ID: cbf93ebf-edc5-49b9-a4db-65555744c6d5[24]

Why It Matters

Ready Player One has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] It is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

FAQs

What awards did Ready Player One receive?

Honors received include Alex Award[4] and Prometheus Award[5].

Related Entities

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [5] ↑ . lfs.org. lfs.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [23] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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