{"version":"1.0","type":"link","provider_name":"Hardcover","provider_url":"https://hardcover.app","cache_age":86400,"title":"Armada","url":"https://hardcover.app/books/armada","description":"\u0026quot;He vastly prefers the countless science-fiction movies, books, and videogames he\u0026#39;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. \n\nSo when he sees the flying saucer, he\u0026#39;s sure his years of escapism have finally tipped over into madness. \n\nEspecially because the alien ship he\u0026#39;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. \n\nAs impossible as it seems, what Zack\u0026#39;s seeing is all too real. And it\u0026#39;s just the first in a blur of revlations that will force him to question everything he thought he knew about Earth\u0026#39;s history, its future, even his own life--and to play the hero for real, with humanity\u0026#39;s life in the balance. \n\nBut even through the terror and exhilaration, he can\u0026#39;t help thinking: Doesn\u0026#39;t something about this scenario feel a little bit like . . .  well . . . fiction?\u0026quot;-- Provided by Amazon","author_name":"Ernest Cline","author_url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/ernest-cline","thumbnail_url":"https://assets.hardcover.app/book_mappings/7332904/be14a0563a5936270c3149b471d82157bc24d1a9.jpeg","thumbnail_width":329,"thumbnail_height":500}