Zack has grown up in a world where Armada is the most played video game ever, though it’s really a top-secret government training program to help prepare the world for an incoming alien invasion. Their secret weapon: an army of spaceship battle drones and robots controlled via video game controllers. I’d have never guessed it would actually be worse, though I suppose that’s my own fault.Īrmada tells the story of Zack Lightman, a high school kid obsessed with video games and the 1980s, who is recruited into a secret government army bent on saving the world from an alien invasion. He had the makings of a good book with Ready Player One it stands to reason he’d improve and Armada would be everything the first one should have been. When I learned that Cline wrote a second novel, Armada, I decided I’d give him a second chance. I find that setting brilliant, and it’s a shame it was left in the background. While I didn’t like Ernest Cline’s first novel, Ready Player One, I do recognize that it has some very good ideas behind it, most notably the dystopian wasteland where everyone has access to a utopia.
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