{"id":117082,"date":"2020-11-24T12:10:03","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T12:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=117082"},"modified":"2020-11-26T06:19:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T06:19:16","slug":"ready-player-two-sci-fi-sequel-launch-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/events\/ready-player-two-sci-fi-sequel-launch-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready Player Two: Sci-fi Sequel Launch Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Ready Player Two, <\/strong><\/em>Ernest Cline&#8217;s highly-anticipated sequel to <em><strong>Ready Player One,<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is finally here and there are a plethora of brilliant events to celebrate!<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, you can hear the first chapter from the sequel, which takes place just days after our hero, Wade Watts, wins OASIS Founder James Halliday&#8217;s contest, being read by none other than actor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/interviews\/rent-a-pal-interview-with-wil-wheaton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Will Wheaton<\/a> himself!<\/p>\n<p>Check out a video of the recording below or you can listen via <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/penguin-books\/ready-player-two-by-ernest-cline-read-by-wil-wheaton\/s-oIev1PtzeuD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">soundcloud<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gJ30A3DGMig\" width=\"375\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Not only that but you can feel like you&#8217;re part of your own VR gaming experience with the launch of a virtual <em><strong>Ready Player Two<\/strong>&#8211;<\/em>themed treasure hunt. Taking place inside seven experiences on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roblox.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roblox<\/a> platform, players who complete the treasure hunt will be awarded virtual goods! The event<strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>headlines a virtual Q&amp;A with Cline and Dave Baszucki (the founder and CEO of Roblox) which will stream inside the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roblox.com\/games\/5967514178\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ready Player Two Event<\/a> on 1 December at 10:00 PST \/ 18:00 GMT (it may even include clues for navigating the treasure hunt). In addition to the Q&amp;A, users can find clues by reading <strong><em>Ready Player Two<\/em><\/strong> in advance of the event\u2019s start.<\/p>\n<p>Further to this, exclusive to UK fans, Waterstones will be holding a virtual launch event for the book &#8216;Ernest Cline In Conversation&#8217; on Wednesday 25 November at 19:30 and you can be part of it! Tickets cost \u00a323, include a copy of <em><strong>Ready Player Two<\/strong><\/em> and you can even submit questions for Cline ahead of the event &#8211; all taking place via Zoom. Grab your tickets <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waterstones.com\/events\/ready-player-two-ernest-cline-in-conversation\/online-events\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/178089743X\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=178089743X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=scifinow01-21&amp;linkId=510b95b49db4a8f68f856cc080134d82\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">out now<\/a>. The Roblox event will be taking place on 1 December at 18:00 GMT and the Waterstones event on 25 November at 19.30 GMT.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=GB&amp;source=ac&amp;ref=qf_sp_asin_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=scifinow01-21&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=GB&amp;placement=178089743X&amp;asins=178089743X&amp;linkId=8ecc33cc768d85662d87f9327fda1166&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true&amp;price_color=333333&amp;title_color=001dbf&amp;bg_color=f5f0f0\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Wil Wheaton, to a VR treasure hunt, to a Zoom Q&#038;A, there are plenty of events available to celebrate the launch of Ernest Cline&#8217;s Ready Player Two&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":117083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[1624,6954],"tags":[6986],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Ready-Player-Two-Book-Cover-Main.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117082"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}