I’m going to be frank and say it didn’t give me quite the same buzz as the first book but even so I enjoyed the ride and found it very entertaining. Well, this is without doubt a fun read that will appeal to many readers. I really enjoyed Ready Player One, in fact it was a big surprise for me because it really didn’t hold any appeal and I resisted reading it in spite of all the love going round – so I did wonder how Armada would stand up.
I confess that I’ve been waiting for this book for ages! (Or at least it feels that way – you know how it is when you’re really anticipating something so badly). But even through the terror and exhilaration, he can’t help thinking back to all those science-fiction stories he grew up with, and wondering: Doesn’t something about this scenario seem a little…familiar?Īt once gleefully embracing and brilliantly subverting science-fiction conventions as only Ernest Cline could, Armada is a rollicking, surprising thriller, a classic coming of age adventure, and an alien invasion tale like nothing you’ve ever read before-one whose every page is infused with the pop-culture savvy that has helped make Ready Player One a phenomenon.Just finished reading Armada by Ernest Cline. It’s Zack’s chance, at last, to play the hero. And his skills-as well as those of millions of gamers across the world-are going to be needed to save the earth from what’s about to befall it.
As impossible as it seems, what he’s seeing is all too real. He knows that here in the real world, aimless teenage gamers with anger issues don’t get chosen to save the universe.Įven stranger, the alien ship he’s staring at is straight out of the videogame he plays every night, a hugely popular online flight simulator called Armada-in which gamers just happen to be protecting the earth from alien invaders. Dreaming that one day, some fantastic, world-altering event will shatter the monotony of his humdrum existence and whisk him off on some grand space-faring adventure.īut hey, there’s nothing wrong with a little escapism, right? After all, Zack tells himself, he knows the difference between fantasy and reality. Dreaming that the real world could be a little more like the countless science-fiction books, movies, and videogames he’s spent his life consuming. Zack Lightman has spent his life dreaming.
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