01958cam a2200289 4500 607494738 TxAuBib 20150717120000.0 150313s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2015009421 9780804137256 hardcover 0804137250 hardcover (OCoLC)903634672 DLC rda eng DLC IG# YDXCP BTCTA OCLCF OI6 UOK TxAuBib Cline, Ernest, author. Armada : a novel / Ernest Cline. First edition. New York : Crown Publishers, [2015] 355 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. It's just another day of high school for Zack Lightman. He's daydreaming through another boring math class, with just one more month to go until graduation and freedom--if he can make it that long without getting suspended again. Then he glances out his classroom window and spots the flying saucer. At first, Zack thinks he's going crazy. A minute later, he's sure of it. Because the UFO he's staring at is straight out of the videogame he plays every night, a hugely popular online flight simulator called Armada--in which gamers just happen to be protecting the earth from alien invaders. But what Zack's seeing is all too real. And his skills--as well as those of millions of gamers across the world--are going to be needed to save the earth from what's about to befall it. Yet even as he and his new comrades scramble to prepare for the alien onslaught, Zack can't help thinking of all the science-fiction books, TV shows, and movies he grew up reading and watching, and wonder: Doesn't something about this scenario seem a little too familiar? 20150717. High school students Fiction. Human-alien encounters Fiction. Science fiction. 9780804137256.jpg Cover image TXMIT