{"product_id":"armada-a-novel-by-the-author-of-ready-player-one","title":"Preloved: Armada: A novel by the author of Ready Player One","description":"\u003cp\u003eNEW 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 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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\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 Armada—in 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, Armada 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":"The CuriosiTea Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43514749288511,"sku":"P9780804137270","price":2.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/0619\/3727\/files\/7F055B6C-51FF-4DD6-9720-0936DCC8F435.jpg?v=1783799997","url":"https:\/\/curiositeabookshop.com\/products\/armada-a-novel-by-the-author-of-ready-player-one","provider":"The CuriosiTea Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}