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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"Exciting . . . 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**
Zack Lightman has never much cared for reality. He vastly prefers the
countless science-fiction movies, books, and videogames he's spent his
life consuming. 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.
So when he sees the flying saucer, he's sure his years of escapism have
finally tipped over into madness.
Especially 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.
As impossible as it seems, what Zack's seeing is all too real. 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.
But even through the terror and exhilaration, he can't help thinking:
Doesn't something about this scenario feel a little bit like . . . well
. . . fiction?
At 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.
