{"product_id":"9780804137270","title":"Armada: A novel by the author of Ready Player One","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eReady Player One\u003c\/i\u003e, a rollicking alien invasion thriller that embraces and subverts science-fiction conventions as only Ernest Cline can. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZack 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo when he sees the flying saucer, he's sure his years of escapism have finally tipped over into madness. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEspecially because the alien ship he's staring at is straight out of his favorite videogame, a flight simulator callled \u003ci\u003eArmada—\u003c\/i\u003ein which gamers just happen to be protecting Earth from alien invaders. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut even through the terror and exhilaration, he can't help thinking: Doesn't something about this scenario feel a little bit like...well...fiction? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once reinventing and paying homage to science-fiction classics,\u003ci\u003e Armada\u003c\/i\u003e is a rollicking, surprising thriller, a coming-of-age adventure, and an alien invasion tale like nothing you've ever read before.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47015213891824,"sku":"9780804137270","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780804137270_p0.jpg?v=1763726762","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780804137270","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}