The government has been preparing for this attack for about forty years, hence creating Armada. The trainees in this base discover that Armada is a simulation of an imminent alien attack on planet Earth. In Nebraska, Zack falls in love with Lex, a tattoo-loving woman. Zack is taken to Nebraska, a military base where humans are trained on how to fight off aliens. Before long, he learns that the spacecraft has come for him. The following day another spacecraft from Earth Defense Alliance (EDA) lands in the school compound. Therefore, when he spots the UFO, he went home to look for books about an alien invasion.

Zack is obsessed with video games, and he continually goes through his father’s books to study about conspiracy theories. The spacecraft bear a resemblance to one of those he regularly sees in a video game, Armada. Zack is a high school senior, and one day he sees a strange spacecraft from his classroom window. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own.Īrmada is a science fiction book by Ernest Cline that follows the story of Zack Lightman, a video game fan. 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 ?Īt once reinventing and paying homage to science-fiction classics as only Ernest Cline can, Armada is a rollicking, surprising thriller, a coming-of-age adventure, and an alien invasion tale like nothing you've ever read before.These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. 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. From the author of Ready Player One, a rollicking alien invasion thriller that embraces and subverts science-fiction conventions as only Ernest Cline could.

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