With Armada, Cline finally has the opportunity to address the question of whether his work has legs beyond the crutch of his referential obsessions. The sins of Cline’s era-specific obsessions and wafer-thin characters were forgivable, given the effervescent pleasures of his geek-culture mashup. We’re told that he’s just immersing himself in the beloved media of his dead father, but hearing a modern-day teenage character talk about ’80s culture with the intimacy and nostalgia of his 43-year-old creator feels more than a little contrived.Īnd familiar: Ready Player One, the novel that launched Cline’s career, was a sci-fi adventure about teenagers cavorting through a futuristic virtual reality world where the limitless creative possibilities of the digital universe were oddly laser-focused on 1980s pop culture references. At this, Zach worries he will be forcibly removed from the program.Armada reads like a coming-of-age fantasy for people who came of age long ago despite the fact that Zack Lightman is only 18 years old, he drives a 1989 Dodge Omni, watches ’80s movies like Say Anything, and can’t stop listening to ZZ Top.
During the battle, Zach disobeys explicit orders, causing the destruction of numerous precious drones. Suddenly, the base is attacked without warning and the new recruits must immediately take to battle stations to defend the base. Apparently, the government has known about an upcoming three-tiered attack from the aliens for forty years. His narrative is so well composed as to be mistaken for easy.
There, Zach learns that Armada is, in fact, a simulation created by the government to train drone pilots against an imminent attack from aliens hailing from Europa, one of the moons orbiting Jupiter.Īt the base in Nebraska, Zach is escorted into a briefing room where he sits next to a woman with tattoos named Lex. Not as long as RP1, but it’s a worthwhile comply with up.Ernest Cline writes in this novel with supportive voice, easily read and also memorably delighted in. And who steps out but Ray himself, who recruits Zach to fly with him to a top-secret base in Nebraska. Armada: A Novel Audible Audiobook Unabridged Ernest Cline (Author), Wil Wheaton (Narrator), & 1 more 19,441 ratings Editors' pick Best Science Fiction & Fantasy See all formats and editions Kindle 9.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. Still curious about the UFO he sees and uncertain about whether he’s losing his mind, Zach learns that it isn’t a hallucination when a huge spaceship resembling the ones piloted by the Earth government in Armada lands on the lawn of his school.
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