It\'s the year 2044, and the real world has become an ugly place.
And like most of humanity, Wade is obsessed by the ultimate lottery ticket tha.
Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes this depressing reality by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia where you can be anything you want to be, where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets.
Famine, poverty, and disease are widespread.
We\'ve wrecked the climate.
We\'re out of oil.
It\'s the year 2044, and the real world has become an ugly place