Absolutely, it's a book that will be loved by almost all gamers, programmers and technology fans. Let me write a short summary of this work.
OASIS (Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation) it's an alternate reality game that allow people to live a better (but fake, virtual) life. It's a utopic simulation in a dystopic world. The world is in an energy crisis. The population of the earth have low life quality, living in precarious places due to lack of space. One way or another, "living" in OASIS is an obvious choice to all.
James Donovan Halliday, creator of OASIS, left in the game, before he died, a series of clues to the biggest competition of all time. Three keys to be find and three gates to be opened, who complete this will gain all his fortune: 240 billions of dollars.
For me, the best thing in this book, in this world created by Ernest Cline, is the way that all players need to follow if they want to have a chance to win the prize. Halliday left the "Anorak's Almanac", a list of his favorite books, games, movies and other things. All of 80's, his favorite decade. The challenge is based on this. Several things of that time are described in detail. It's a new (old) world to discovery.
Well, he lived in a super technological era, owner of the biggest game in the history, but all he liked, and played, and lived, it's things of a previous generation. I guess that we can choose which generation we want to live, we don't need to know all new games, and movies, and whatever. We can watch a billion times the Star Wars movie, or play Super Mario World until we die. It's a thing to think.
Other thing that make me think about is the possibility to dealing with life as a RPG game (a adventure game) where you make choices, gain experience, up levels and buy better equipment, exploring a giant universe.
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