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From the author of Ready Player One, a rollicking alien invasion thriller that embraces and subverts science-fiction conventions as only Ernest Cline could. . Zack Lightman has never much cared for reality. He vastly prefers the countless science-fiction movies, books, and videogames hes 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, hes sure his years of escapism have finally tipped over into madness. . Especially because the alien ship hes 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 Zacks seeing is all too real. And its just the first in a blur of revlations that will force him to question everything he thought he knew about Earths history, its future, even his own life--and to play the hero for real, with humanitys life in the balance. . But even through the terror and exhilaration, he cant help thinking: Doesnt something about this scenario feel a little bit like...well...fiction? . At 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 youve ever read before.