A cinematic, inventive, heartwarming, and completely nerdtastic adventure from the bestselling author of Ready Player One 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 “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.
