Armada (Hungarian Edition)

by Ernest Cline

Overview

Zack Lightman egész életében arról álmodozott, hogy egyszer vele is megtörténik az, ami a legkedvesebb sci-fi könyveiben, filmjeiben és számítógépes játékaiban: hogy kamaszkora unalmas, kertvárosi monotóniájából egy nap felrázza egy fantasztikus, világrengető űrbéli kaland.

Ugyan mi rossz lehet egy kis ábrándozásban? Zack eddig elég jól elboldogult azzal, hogy tudja, mi a különbség a valóság és a képzelet között. Tisztában van vele, hogy a való világban nem a dühkezelési problémákkal küzdő, céltalan kamaszok szokták megmenteni az univerzumot.

Egészen addig, amíg egy nap meg nem pillant egy repülő csészealjat. Ami ráadásul megszólalásig hasonlít az Armada nevű videojátékban szereplő ellenséges földönkívüli űrhajóra. Kizárt, hogy tévedjen, mivel Zack történetesen a világ egyik legjobb Armada-játékosa, minden szabad percét ezzel a játékkal tölti...

Első, világsikerű regényéhez, a Ready Player One-hoz hasonlóan Ernest Cline ezúttal is a nyolcvanas évek popkultúrája előtt tiszteleg, és egy lebilincselő történetet kínál a sci-fi rajongóinak. Az Armada egyszerre lehengerlően izgalmas kalandregény, tisztelgés George Lucas és Steven Spielberg munkássága előtt, és a felnőtté válás klasszikus története.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789634190028
Publisher:	Agave Könyvek Kiadó Kft.
Publication date:	04/21/2020
Sold by:	PUBLISHDRIVE KFT
Format:	eBook
Pages:	368
File size:	2 MB
Language:	Hungarian

About the Author

Ernest Cline is a #1 New York Times bestselling novelist, screenwriter, father, and full-time geek. He is the author of the novels Ready Player One and Armada and co-screenwriter of the film adaptation of Ready Player One, directed by Steven Spielberg. His books have been published in over fifty countries and have spent more than 100 weeks on The New York Times bestsellers list. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his family, a time-traveling DeLorean, and a large collection of classic video games.

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Editorial Reviews

Nerd-gasmic . . . another science fiction tale with a Comic-Con's worth of pop-culture shout-outs.”—Rolling Stone

“An amazing novel [that] proves Cline has the ability to blend popular culture with exciting stories that appeal to everyone.”—Associated Press

“A fantastic second novel . . . fans of Ready Player One, it is time to rejoice.”—HuffPost

“A joyous, rollicking read . . . will garner Cline an even larger group of fans than the formidable crew he’s already assembled.”—Boing Boing
 
“A great romp . . . Cline (ever the fanboy) is both reverent of and referential to the books and movies and games of his childhood.”—Mother Jones

“Video games come to life in this witty, extraterrestrial thriller.”—New York Post

“Built like a summer blockbuster . . . Cline recombines the DNA of Ender’s Game, Star Wars, The Last Starfighter, and old-school arcade games like Asteroids into something that’s both familiar and unpredictable. It’s a mutant homage to sci-fi tropes past.”—Gawker

“Hugely entertaining…a paean to the videogames of a bygone era, and like Ready Player One it is a tremendous amount of fun for anyone who remembers that time and played those games.”—George R.R. Martin, New York Times bestselling author of Game of Thrones

“A novel so fun, you’ll want to reboot it and read it again . . . the best novel this gamer geek has read in a long, long time.”—Hugh Howey, New York Times bestselling author of Wool

“Those conspiracies you imagined when you were fourteen turn out to be true in this masterful tale of Earth’s desperate struggle against a powerful alien foe.”—Andy Weir, New York Times bestselling author of The Martian

“Armada proves Ernie Cline is the modern master of wish fulfillment literature—and of reminding us to be careful what we wish for.”—John Scalzi, New York Times bestselling author of Old Man’s War

“With another winning teen protagonist in Zach, Cline mines the nostalgia and geek spheres just as successfully as he did in his acclaimed debut, Ready Player One. The works that obviously influenced the story line, such as Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game and the films The Last Starfighter and Star Wars, feel like homages rather than borrowings- a rap artist sampling the best beats our there to create an irresistible jam.”—Library Journal (starred review)

“Cline once again brings crackling humor and fanboy knowledge to a zesty, crowd-pleasing, countdown-clock, save-the-planet tale featuring an unlikely hero, adrenaline-pumping action, gawky romance, and touching family moments. . . . Cline’s sly, mind-twisting premise and energetically depicted and electrifying high-tech battles make for smart, frenetic, and satisfying entertainment.”—Booklist (starred review)

From the Publisher

2015-06-03
From the author of Ready Player One (2011), another book centered around video games and the 1980s. Teenager Zack Lightman loves playing games online with his friends, although any similarities to teenagers of today end there. He's obsessed with '80s science fiction, ostensibly because it's a way to fill the void left by his dead father. In the attic, Zack finds not only his dad's favorite movies on VHS, but also a detailed conspiracy theory his father wrote when he was 19, claiming video games and movies about alien invasions have been secretly funded by a shadowy organization to prepare humanity for the real thing. It's a crazy theory that, of course, turns out to be absolutely true. When aliens invade, Zack is whisked away to a secret training facility where he learns the game he's devoted years of his life to playing has always been an advanced tactical simulation, much like the plot to the 1984 movie The Last Starfighter. Now, Zack and his fellow gamers must step up and defend Earth for real. In the hands of a more skilled writer, the book could have drawn on familiar stories to launch into a new science-fiction adventure. Instead, it offers little more than interminable video game-style battles and timeworn tropes, including a plot twist that can be seen coming for miles. Zack's love interest is impossibly attractive, swigs booze from an R2-D2 flask, and laughs at all his jokes—a nerd-fantasy centerfold and just as one-dimensional. Meanwhile, Zack's two friends are indistinguishable from one another and do little more than argue over geek minutiae, because as everyone knows, that's all nerds ever do. However, in the end, it's the unrelenting references to '80s movies that squander any possible tension in the narrative. Readers never doubt whether the good guys will win because they're constantly reminded: good guys always win in the movies. A hackneyed sci-fi spectacle.

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