It's a mutant homage to sci-fi tropes past.' - Gawker Cline recombines the DNA of Ender's Game, Star Wars, The Last Starfighter, and old-school arcade games like Asteroids into something that's both familiar and unpredictable. 'Video games come to life in this witty, extraterrestrial thriller.' - New York Post Cline (ever the fanboy) is both reverent of and referential to the books and movies and games of his childhood.' - Mother Jones

will garner Cline an even larger group of fans than the formidable crew he's already assembled.' - Boing Boing fiction?Īt once reinventing and paying homage to science-fiction classics, Armada is a rollicking, surprising thriller, a coming-of-age adventure, and an alien invasion tale like nothing you've ever read before. And it's just the first in a blur of revlations that will force him to question everything he thought he knew about Earth's history, its future, even his own life-and to play the hero for real, with humanity's life in the balance.īut even through the terror and exhilaration, he can't help thinking: Doesn't something about this scenario feel a little bit like. So when he sees the flying saucer, he's sure his years of escapism have finally tipped over into madness.Įspecially because the alien ship he's staring at is straight out of his favorite videogame, a flight simulator callled Armada-in which gamers just happen to be protecting Earth from alien invaders.Īs impossible as it seems, what Zack's seeing is all too real. And too often, he catches himself wishing that some fantastic, impossible, world-altering event could arrive to whisk him off on a grand spacefaring adventure. He vastly prefers the countless science-fiction movies, books, and videogames he's spent his life consuming. Zack Lightman has never much cared for reality. mixes Star Wars, The Last Starfighter, Independence Day, and a really gnarly round of Space Invaders.'- USA Today - 'A thrilling coming of age story.'- Entertainment Weekly Description NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A rollicking alien invasion thriller that embraces and subverts science-fiction conventions, from the author of the worldwide phenomenon Ready Player One

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