NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A rollicking alien invasion thriller that embraces and subverts
science-fiction conventions from the author of the worldwide phenomenon Ready Player One
Exciting . . . mixes Star Wars The Last Starfighter Independence Day and a really gnarly
round of Space Invaders.-USA Today • A thrilling coming of age story.-Entertainment Weekly Zack
Lightman has never much cared for reality. He vastly prefers the countless science-fiction
movies books and videogames he's 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 he's sure his years of
escapism have finally tipped over into madness. Especially 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. As impossible as it seems what Zack's
seeing is all too real. 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. But even through the
terror and exhilaration he can't help thinking: Doesn't something about this scenario feel a
little bit like . . . well . . . fiction? At once reinventing and paying homage to
science-fiction classics Armada is a rollicking surprising thriller a coming-of-age
adventure and an alien invasion tale like nothing you've ever read before.
