One of the most anticipated novels of the summer will have a familiar voice on the audio edition.
Ernest Cline revealed that his upcoming Ready Player One will be read by Wil Wheaton.
Cline said it was ” what happens when you convince your publisher to hire the perfect narrator for your audio book.” Cline features an excerpt of Wheaton reading the book on his web site.
The novel is set to hit stores next Tuesday. If you’re interested in the print, e-book or audio edition, click on the links above and you’ll help out Slice of SciFi.
Here’s a brief description of it.
At once wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, READY PLAYER ONE is a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debut—part quest novel, part love story, and part virtual space opera set in a universe where spell-slinging mages battle giant Japanese robots, entire planets are inspired by Blade Runner, and flying DeLoreans achieve light speed.
It’s the year 2044, and the real world is an ugly place.
Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes his grim surroundings by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia that lets you be anything you want to be, a place where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets.
And like most of humanity, Wade dreams of being the one to discover the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this virtual world. For somewhere inside this giant networked playground, OASIS creator James Halliday has hidden a series of fiendish puzzles that will yield massive fortune—and remarkable power—to whoever can unlock them.
For years, millions have struggled fruitlessly to attain this prize, knowing only that Halliday’s riddles are based in the pop culture he loved—that of the late twentieth century.
