Armada is the story of Zackary "Zack" Ulysses Lightman, a gamer who grew up without his father. After looking through some notes his father left behind, Zack believed that (view spoiler)[thngs such as: The Last Starfighter, Space Invaders, Star Trek, and Star Wars were made to help make the common man ready for when Earth made contact with an alien life form, and he was right. (hide spoiler)]
This has been on my 'to read' shelf for a while, I read and throughly enjoyed Ready Player One a few years ago. Like before, Ernest Cline does a fantastic job weaving references to nerd culture into the story, most of which I got. One that I did not get was the tattoo of the "comic book herorine Tank Girl, adorned in postapocolyptic rock lingerie and smooching an M16. On her right bicep, in stylized capital letters, were the words EL RIESGO SIEMPRE VIVE (Cline 114-5). (I just checked and it is in refrence to the Alien franchise) I also like that in my book after the epilogue, they tell you what songs were on the mix tape that used to belong to Zack's father, which was named Raid the Arcade, which included among other tracks: Ozzy Osborne's Crazy Train, Queen's We Will Rock You/We are the Champions, and Van Halen's You Really Got Me.
Armada is the story of Zackary "Zack" Ulysses Lightman, a gamer who grew up without his father. After looking through some notes his father left behind, Zack believed that (view spoiler)[thngs such as: The Last Starfighter, Space Invaders, Star Trek, and Star Wars were made to help make the common man ready for when Earth made contact with an alien life form, and he was right. (hide spoiler)]
This has been on my 'to read' shelf for a while, I read and throughly enjoyed Ready Player One a few years ago. Like before, Ernest Cline does a fantastic job weaving references to nerd culture into the story, most of which I got. One that I did not get was the tattoo of the "comic book herorine Tank Girl, adorned in postapocolyptic rock lingerie and smooching an M16. On her right bicep, in stylized capital letters, were the words EL RIESGO SIEMPRE VIVE (Cline 114-5). (I just checked and it is in refrence to the Alien franchise) I also like that in my book after the epilogue, they tell you what songs were on the mix tape that used to belong to Zack's father, which was named Raid the Arcade, which included among other tracks: Ozzy Osborne's Crazy Train, Queen's We Will Rock You/We are the Champions, and Van Halen's You Really Got Me.