Armada

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Traverwood Adult A/V 4-week checkout	Adult BOCD / Fiction / Science Fiction / Cline, Ernest	4-week checkout	Due 05-07-2024

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Read by Wil Wheaton.
"It's just another day of high school for Zack Lightman. He's daydreaming through another boring math class, with just one more month to go until graduation and freedom--if he can make it that long without getting suspended again. Then he glances out his classroom window and spots the flying saucer. At first, Zack thinks he's going crazy. A minute later, he's sure of it. Because the UFO 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. But what Zack's seeing is all too real. 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. Yet even as he and his new comrades scramble to prepare for the alien onslaught, Zack can't help thinking of all the science-fiction books, TV shows, and movies he grew up reading and watching, and wonder: Doesn't something about this scenario seem a little too... familiar? Armada is at once 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 author Ernest Cline's trademark pop-culture savvy"-- Provided by publisher.

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A good follow-up novel from RPO submitted by bahr on July 19, 2022, 12:37pm Armada has a similar feel to Ready Player One, though the structure of the plot is different. Everything plays out in the real world, but gaming is still front and center. The main character’s identity crisis due to family history is a bit more raw here than in Ready Player One. I found this novel a bit more fantastical, but still a fun read.