Ready Player Two
Ernest Cline
The sequel sends Wade on a new quest in the OASIS, so read it after the first book.
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Ready Player One sends a teenager on a hunt through a vast virtual world, in a bleak future where the puzzles come from old pop culture. These seven sci-fi books bring more virtual worlds, high-stakes games and geeky fun.
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Armada
Ernest Cline
A high school gamer sees a flying saucer outside his classroom that matches the ship from his favorite video game, in the same author's second novel.
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
A hacker who delivers pizza for a living chases a dangerous virus through the Metaverse and the real world, in a fast, funny and violent 1992 satire.
Neuromancer
William Gibson
A burned-out hacker is hired for a dangerous job in a neon, noir future of cyberspace, in the 1984 novel that became a landmark of cyberpunk.
Warcross
Marie Lu
A teenage bounty hunter glitches into the opening game of a global virtual-reality craze and is hired by its creator, in a fast young adult thriller.
Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
A gifted boy is recruited to a space academy where war games prepare children for a coming battle with an alien race, with violence between kids.
The Martian
Andy Weir
An astronaut left behind on Mars solves one problem after another to stay alive, in a funny, geeky survival story.
How to choose
Ready Player One is about games and nostalgia, so choose by which you want more of. For more from the author, Armada and Ready Player Two are the nearest, and Ready Player Two is a direct sequel. For the virtual worlds that came before, Snow Crash is satirical and violent, while Neuromancer is a denser, moodier classic. Warcross is a faster teen read with a game at its center. Ender's Game puts children into war games, with violence between kids, and The Martian trades games for survival and jokes. Several of these are the first in a series, so a favorite can lead to more.
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