Armada

Autor: Cline, Ernest

Editorial: Ivy Books

Lenguaje: Inglés Internacional

ISBN13: 9780804137256

Reseña:  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 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 Armada is a rollicking surprising thriller a coming-of-age adventure and an alien invasion tale like nothing youve ever read before.