Armada: From the author of READY PLAYER ONE - Brossura

Cline, Ernest

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ISBN 10: 178089189X ISBN 13: 9781780891897

Casa editrice: Century, 2015

Riassunto

THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF READY PLAYER ONE

Zack Lightman has spent his life dreaming. 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. 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.

But hey, there’s nothing wrong with a little escapism, right? After all, Zack tells himself, he knows the difference between fantasy and reality. He knows that here in the real world, aimless teenage gamers with anger issues don’t get chosen to save the universe.

And then he sees the flying saucer.

Even 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.

No, Zack hasn’t lost his mind. As impossible as it seems, what he’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.

It’s Zack’s chance, at last, to play the hero. 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?

At 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.

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Recensione:

"A novel so fun, you'll want to reboot it and read it again...the best novel this gamer geek has read in a long, long time." (Hugh Howey, Sunday Times bestselling author of Wool)

"Those conspiracies you imagined when you were fourteen turn out to be true in this masterful tale of Earth's desperate struggle against a powerful alien foe." (Andy Weir, bestselling author of The Martian)

"Another geektastic celebration of the nerd and nerd culture...Really clever, really captivating." (Daily Mail)

"A thrilling coming-of-age story." (Entertainment Weekly)

"Built like a summer blockbuster...Cline recombines the DNA of Ender’s Game, Star Wars, The Last Starfighter, and old-school arcade games like Asteroids into something that’s both familiar and unpredictable. It’s a mutant homage to sci-fi tropes past." (Gawker)

Descrizione del libro:

THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF READY PLAYER ONE

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• Editore: Century
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 178089189X
• ISBN 13: 9781780891897
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 368