FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF READY PLAYER ONE SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY STEVEN SPIELBERG'A masterful tale of Earth's desperate struggle against a powerful alien foe'
- Andy Weir bestselling author of The Martian It's just another day of high school for Zack Lightman He's daydreaming through another boring math class with just one more month to go until graduation & freedom-if he can make it that long without getting suspended again Then he glances out his classroom window & spots the flying saucer At first Zack thinks he's going crazy A minute later he's sure of it Because the UFO 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 But what Zack's seeing is all too real & 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 Yet even as he & his new comrades scramble to prepare for the alien onslaught Zack can't help thinking of all the science-fiction books TV shows & movies he grew up reading & watching & wonder Doesn't something about this scenario seem a little too familiar? Armada is at once a rollicking surprising thriller a classic coming of age adventure & an alien-invasion tale like nothing you've ever read before-one whose every page is infused with author Ernest Cline's trademark pop-culture savvy