The Paperback of the Armada by Ernest Cline at Barnes & Noble. FREE Shipping on $25 or more! The Paperback of the Armada by Ernest Cline at Barnes & Noble. FREE Shipping on $25 or more! Also riding that trickle-down breeze of science-fiction nostalgia is the adventure yarn “Armada.” Ernest Cline’s new novel is a virtual. By Ernest Cline. By Ernest Cline may have been designed in a laboratory to become the perfect parent-child read, artfully spanning the generation gap.'

Publication date July 14, 2015 Media type Print () Pages 368 Armada is a science fiction novel by, published on July 14, 2015 by (a division of ). The story follows a teenager who plays an online video game about defending against an alien invasion, only to find out that the game is a simulator to prepare him and people around the world for defending an actual alien invasion., who narrated the audio book version of Cline's previous novel,, performs the audio book of Armada as well. Plans for a film adaptation are also in process.

By Lindsay Roseberry, Reference Department Armada is Ernest Cline’s second book. Game Theory Hostage Negotiations. Those of us who loved Ready Player One may be slightly disappointed. We were expecting lightning in a jar again.

Zack loves video games; he really got into them trying to get to know his deceased father. His mother told him about a box of his things in the attic and he had been exploring his father’s notebooks and games. So, when he saw a space ship that looked exactly like one from the video game Armada outside his school window, you would understand why he thought he was hallucinating.

A larger spaceship lands in the schoolyard, and his friend and boss calls him to get in. While on route to an underground bunker, he learns that his world and everyone else’s is about to drastically change.

The aliens are real, Armada, the game that swept the world, was a training program to help fight off the aliens and Earth is under attack. Because he has a high score in Armada (in the top 10!), he is automatically an officer. He is assigned to the dark side of the Moon, to a forward base for the earth forces, to fight off the alien attacks.

But is it possible all is not what it seems? Could his father possibly still be alive? Can Earth be saved?? This book will remind you of Ender’s Game, but not so serious and shocking, and the movie The Last Starfighter. While it does seem formulaic in parts, there is room for a sequel. Perhaps, like in other science fiction series, the first book sets up the story and the story continues where it left off.