But even through the terror and exhilaration, he can’t help thinking back to all those science-fiction stories he grew up with, and wondering: Doesn’t something about this scenario seem a little…familiar? It’s Zack’s chance, at last, to play the hero. 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. As impossible as it seems, what he’s seeing is all too real. He knows that here in the real world, aimless teenage gamers with anger issues don’t get chosen to save the universe.Įven stranger, the alien ship 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. Dreaming that one day, some fantastic, world-altering event will shatter the monotony of his humdrum existence and whisk him off on some grand space-faring adventure.īut hey, there’s nothing wrong with a little escapism, right? After all, Zack tells himself, he knows the difference between fantasy and reality. Dreaming that the real world could be a little more like the countless science-fiction books, movies, and videogames he’s spent his life consuming. Synopsis: Zack Lightman has spent his life dreaming. It was quite fun and we plan to do another in May. Each day we would message each other about the stuff that happened in the book and give our predictions for what we thought would happen. We did about 2 chapters a day and fit in extra when we had time but stayed pretty consistent. Over the past 3 weeks, I participated in my first ever buddy read with J.W.Martin from Storeys of Stories and we read the book Armada by Ernest Cline.
What’s up bookworms? I hope you are all reading your hearts out.
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