I found a slightly used copy of The Art of Ready Player One and on the first page there was a cluster of signatures, at first i just thought id see more like someone used it as a yearbook but researching at home I saw this article https://www.slashfilm.com/557808/art-of-ready-player-one/

Thats the only other thing i see with this many signatures, it appears to be signed by the author of the book, the author of the art book, parzival, aech, art3mis, nolan, and Spielberg. The positions arent exactly the same as the book in the picture. Id imagine a couple hundred of these were sent out to people. Does anyone else have one? The ink looks pretty real and even bleeds slightly on the back or the page

Every version I find available has that hideous cover with the characters all over. This one is just perfect.

Has anyone purchased this before and is it worth it?

Very happy to come home to my copy of the graphic novel version.
The bookplate signature isn’t stuck in it though, now have the dilemma of where to put it!

hello all!

I've never posted to this sub before, but I'm rewatching the movie and was reminded of something that consistently pisses me off about it. during the fight for the castle, some things happen that wipe out multiple sixers.

for example, Godzilla falls on a bunch of them. when that happens, it flashes to the war room and shows everyone zeroing out in the same formation that they died in the Oasis. it doesn't make any sense for that to happen, because naturally they would scatter during the battle. it's unrealistic for IOI to require that they stick together in the same formation that they are in real life. it would have been more accurate to have a bunch of random people zero out across the war room as opposed to all clustered in a group like that.

okay, I'll get off my soapbox now.

This is Skylar we are using his image. Skylar cannot speak in real life, but in Alien Evolution he can speak, run and play—things his medical condition makes impossible. We want to pay Skylar for his image in his main character role. This concept has never been done before in history. It will catch on!

They finally uploaded the interview and send out a link to those of us that bought a ticket and attended and I wanted to share!

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I don't know if you guys have been following the recent flurry of AI decompiled games. (Basically, AIs deconstruct the packaged game so users can play with its contents however they like. Something that shouldn't be possible, but now is.)

I've been having RP1 flashbacks seeing the juxtapositions of different characters inhabiting other universes, sometimes in a way that can only be described as OASIS-like. A great deal of it is slop, but I'm wondering more about the future possibilities.

Gamers have been mixing and matching the weirdest combinations like skating in the war torn Modern Warfare levels, navy seals inhabitting pixelated minecraft landscapes.

In the video above we can see anime-stylized Sora from kingdom hearts traversing the high fantasy of Elden Ring. It's almost as if every different game is a different planet in the OASIS

Yeah....got mine!

In the novel, Wade is over weight for awhile. Aech is also. Arty is rubenesque and even mentioned to be 168 lbs.

In the movie only Aech kind of was, but its a movie and they want hot Hollywood people to butts in the seats. I get it.

The new graphic novel. Same as the film. Aech worst of all gets the slimming down effect. Wade doesn't really change through the comic and Arty may be sort of thick but not really. Most she is is large chested. But yeah, I was hoping the comic would adhere a bit more to their described likenesses.

Still a fun read, I just found it an odd adaption choice.

Edit: having see a better full version of Aech she is “rubenesque”.

Ernie Cline held a rare public webinar on Oct 13th to promote the new graphic novel edition of RPO. In the webinar, he shared that he is currently working on a sci fi novel about time travel, saying:
"I'm working on a new standalone science fiction novel that deals with time travel. Kind of me geeking out on time travel. As you can see, I do that all the time. And so I feel qualified to geek out on Back to the Future and time travel. I'm a big fan and grew up adoring time travel stories and have always wanted to do my version of that. But — it'll scramble your brain like an egg, writing time travel, because of the possibilities. And so I'm still working on that non-stop, guys, when I'm not doing stuff like this."

I asked Ernie if there are any plans for another RPO book and he said:
"There is. I always envisioned and mapped the story out as a trilogy, with Ready Player One and then the sequel Ready Player Two, and then a prequel: The Middletown Adventurers' Guild, which I kind of set up in Ready Player Two. That's probably the book I'm gonna write after I finish this time travel story. So I always had an idea for the origins of the Oasis and Halliday and Morrow and Kira and their friends in high school in Ohio. It would be my version of Stranger Things and The Breakfast Club and a lot of my favorite coming-of-age '80s films like Dead Poets Society, kind of Dead Poets Society but with Dungeons Dragons instead of poetry. I've got it all kind of sketched out."

I'm excited about both of these upcoming books.

The RPO prequel has been referred to as Ready Player Zero. It wasn't clear from Ernie's comments if he was saying the book would be titled The Middletown Adventurers' Guild or just that the book would be about The Middletown Adventurers' Guild. I would guess he'd title it Ready Player Zero so it's obvious that it's in the same series.

When asked about the Ready Player Two movie, Ernie said part of the delay was due to the Warner Brothers acquisition. He said "I don't think Steven Spielberg would direct the sequel." He also said, "The Prince estate is playing ball now and giving people licenses to stuff. So I have a dream of my Prince planet being visualized in a movie."

Ernie also said that the graphic novel adaptation of Ready Player Two should be finished in 2028. He speculated that the graphic novel would likely be released before the movie.

It's rare to get updates straight from the man himself, so I hope you enjoy them!

Caught ya!

I would love to see an oversized, hardcover annotated or illustrated coffee table book edition of RPO, filled with color photos of all the movies and games referenced in the novel. There are books like this, such as Harry Potter, the novels of Dan Brown or books annotated by author Leslie S. Klinger. I am sending a message out into the universe for this to be a thing.\ The money for this has been burning a hole in my pocket since I first read it.

I got the new RPO Graphic Novel and have been duo reading it while listening to the audio book while driving. I had a long drive today and finished the novel. I told myself before I started the audio book that I wasn't going to continue into RPT because it's character assassinating crap that retroactively harms the superior first book.

Yet I am. Because I love RPO so much. I love the characters so much. And I'm going to go into RPT AGAIN knowing the story isn't anywhere near as good and it just mischaracterizes everyone from Wade to Arty to Halladay etc. I honestly debate myself as to which character got ruined more.

I hope the RPT movie does an almost full rewrite like the RPO movie did.

Anyone come across errors like this before

I've been wanting to start the series and Target had a great sale going on with a "Buy 2, Get 1" deal, plus the graphic novel was 20 or 30% off (can't remember). WOO HOO.

Waterstones books held a one hour interview with Cline about his new RPO Graphic Novel and RPO in general. We got some great news!

- READY PLAYER THREE IS COMING! Cline is writing a "stand alone" novel (assuming unrelated to RPO), a scifi about time travel and after that one is done he'll write RP3! He'd always imagined it as a trilogy he said.

- After RP3 he has some spin off ideas including one about Kira, Og, and Halliday in college. Sort of a Breakfast Club but with D&D.

- RP2 MOVIE isn't dead! Cline sites WB mergers has at least partly to blame for the delays.

- He said he's love to see an RPO video game or MMO, and mentioned the attempt with Readyverse (boooo! hissss!) that didn't manifest.

- He also said seeing the graphic novel makes hime want an RPO anime.

I'll upload the full interview here once its ready - (added 10/16/26) Waterstones Cline Interview YT.

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I have some other books to read first but I am so excited!!! RPO means so much to me and I love comics so I cannot wait❤️