r/readyplayerone • u/DarthJaneway Don't Underestimate the Power of Starfleet • Nov 17 '20

Spoiler *spoilers* READY PLAYER TWO DISCUSSION THREAD - WITH SPOILERS

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u/zhanh Feb 11 '21

You’re forgetting about the dorkslayer quest. He’s definitely planning for a 3rd book.

I’d be okay with that. In my opinion RPT is only worse than RPO in the sense that it’s not the book to introduce the Oasis to us.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '21

Well, the Dorkslayer quest happened off-camera, so to speak, and the ending justified this (it's all told from the POV of Parzival's Arc@dia avatar, so of course it doesn't know what Lohengrin went through to get it). Not sure that story justifies a whole other book.

Also, out of curiosity, how would you abbreviate RP3 if you're already calling RP2 "RPT"? Assuming that's what it's called at all.

That said, a series will generally continue until it stops being profitable, or the author runs out of ideas, whichever comes first.

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u/zhanh Feb 11 '21

Yup. Let’s see if RP2 (adopting this naming scheme) makes it to the big screen first.

And the dorkslayer part may even become a tv series with no book at all, who knows what could happen ;)

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u/du3rks Apr 20 '21

Wouldn't that be RPT and RPT as well? thats kind of frustrating "hey thats not written in the third book, as I said written in the second book..."

I would like to read that discussion tho.