History Trivia / ReadyPlayerOne

* DuelingWorks: The novel ''Literature/EscapistDream'' has been compared to this novel in recent times. While the two books are separated roughly 9 years apart, ''Escapist Dream'' was released two years after the more popular ''Ready Player One'' film adaptation. Since then both books have been contrasted side-by-side because they both tackled geek culture and pop culture references, inside a virtual reality world no less. The major difference is that ''Ready Player One'' referenced the 1980s while ''Escapist Dream'' referenced modern 2010s culture.
** Everything came to a point when one reviewer by the name of Carl Hannigan pointed out that ''Escapist Dream'' was "better than Ready Player One" in his article. For the most part, Ernest Cline's novel seems to have the better writing since it is a traditionally published book compared to its self-published counterpart, but Louis Bulaong's novel is noted to have better likeable characters and references that made sense.
* ReferencedBy: In ''Film/DearEvanHansen'', [[spoiler:Connor's]] favorite books include Ready Player One.
* TheWikiRule: [[http://readyplayerone.wikia.com/wiki/Ready_Player_One_Wiki The Ready Player One Wiki]]

** Invoked with Wade's [=DeLorean=]: Cline purchased one in real life with the proceeds from Ready Player One, complete with all of Wade's modifications (save the [[{{Intangibility}} oscillation]] [[Film/TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossThe8thDimension overthruster]] of course; ThisIsReality). Many of his critics obsess over the "Ecto-88" VanityLicensePlate; Cline chose the plate as a reference to the "88 miles per hour" time travel speed, but his detractors often point out the UnfortunateImplications of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/88_(number)#In_white_nationalism number 88.]]
** and now, [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/779650/Ready_Player_One_OASIS_beta/ the OASIS actually exists as a real life VR game]], along with other similar [=VRMMOs=] such as [=VRChat=] and Lavender.