Ready Player One is a literary work.
The Prometheus Award is an award for libertarian science fiction novels given annually by the Libertarian Futurist Society , which also publishes the quarterly journal Prometheus . Ready Player One . In 2012 , the book received an Alex Award from the Young Adult Library Services Association division of the American Library Association and won the 2012 Prometheus Award . The book was published on August 16 , 2011 . An audiobook was released the same day ; it was narrated by Wil Wheaton , who was mentioned briefly in one of the chapters . Ready Player One is a 2018 American science-fiction adventure film co-produced and directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Ernest Cline , Eric Eason , and Zak Penn , based on Cline 's novel of the same name .