Zack Lightman has spent his life dreaming. 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. 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. But hey, there's nothing wrong with a little escapism, right? After all, Zack tells himself, he knows the difference between fantasy and reality. He knows that here in the real world, aimless teenage gamers with …
Zack Lightman has spent his life dreaming. 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. 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. But hey, there's nothing wrong with a little escapism, right? After all, Zack tells himself, he knows the difference between fantasy and reality. He knows that here in the real world, aimless teenage gamers with anger issues don't get chosen to save the universe. And then he sees the flying saucer. Even 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. No, Zack hasn't lost his mind. As impossible as it seems, what he'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. It's Zack's chance, at last, to play the hero. 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?
Hardcover, 355 Seiten
Sprache: English
Am 21. September 2015 von Crown Publishers veröffentlicht.
Inhaltswarnung Spoiler generici
La classica storia di un ragazzino a cui capita tutto nel giro di ventiquattro ore. Cambia vita, salva il mondo, si innamora, ritrova (e ri-perde) un padre mai conosciuto. Pieno di cliché e con una trama banalotta, comunque si fa leggere con piacere.
This book is like viewing The Last Starfighter and Ender's Game through Ready Player One-tinted glasses. The result is hot garbage. If hot garbage is your jam, then by all means, enjoy this book. I DNFed it about one third in, which took me less than an hour because I was just skimming through the trash to find the nuggets of relevant information. Until I decided that I had enough of this shit. Awful book, avoid.
