Ready Player One

novel by Ernest Cline
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Ready Player One

Summary

Ready Player One is a literary work[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,762 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Ready Player One authored Ernest Cline[3].
  • Ready Player One received the Alex Award[4].
  • Ready Player One received the Prometheus Award[5].
  • Ready Player One's instance of is recorded as literary work[6].
  • Ready Player One was published by Crown Publishing Group[7].
  • Ready Player One was published by AST[8].
  • Ready Player One's genre is cyberpunk[9].
  • Ready Player One's genre is LitRPG[10].
  • Ready Player One's genre is science fiction[11].
  • Ready Player One's genre is adventure fiction[12].
  • Ready Player One's genre is dystopian fiction[13].
  • Ready Player One was followed by Ready Player Two[14].
  • Ready Player One's language of work or name is recorded as English[15].
  • Ready Player One's country of origin is recorded as United States[16].
  • 2011 marks the founding of Ready Player One[17].
  • Ready Player One was released on August 16, 2011[18].
  • Ready Player One's characters is recorded as Parzival[19].
  • Ready Player One's characters is recorded as Art3mis[20].
  • Ready Player One's characters is recorded as James Halliday[21].
  • Ready Player One's has edition or translation is recorded as Ready Player One[22].
  • Ready Player One's has edition or translation is recorded as Ready Player One[23].
  • Ready Player One's has edition or translation is recorded as Ready Player One[24].
  • Ready Player One's has edition or translation is recorded as Ready Player One[25].
  • Ready Player One's has edition or translation is recorded as Ready Player One[26].
  • Ready Player One's has edition or translation is recorded as Ready Player One[27].

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[28]

  • MusicBrainz ID: cbf93ebf-edc5-49b9-a4db-65555744c6d5[29]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Ready Player One authored Ernest Cline[3]. Publishers include Crown Publishing Group[7] and AST[8].

Publication

Ready Player One was published on August 16, 2011[18]. Its language of work or name is recorded as English[15]. Genres include cyberpunk[9], LitRPG[10], science fiction[11], adventure fiction[12], and dystopian fiction[13].

Reception

Awards received include Alex Award[4], a literary award[30], in United States[31], founded in 1998[32] and Prometheus Award[5], a group of awards[33], in United States[34], founded in 1979[35].

Adaptations and Inspiration

Ready Player One was followed by Ready Player Two[14].

Why It Matters

Ready Player One ranks in the top 1% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,762 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[36] It is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[37]

FAQs

What awards did Ready Player One receive?

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

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [6] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] . wikidata.org.
  5. [9] . wikidata.org.
  6. [10] . wikidata.org.
  7. [11] . wikidata.org.
  8. [12] . wikidata.org.
  9. [13] . wikidata.org.
  10. [14] . wikidata.org.
  11. [4] . wikidata.org.
  12. [5] . lfs.org. lfs.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [28] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [29] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [34] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [35] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [36] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [37] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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