

Zack Lightman, a high school senior with a reputation for getting into trouble, is one of the world’s top players of the video game Armada, an online combat flight simulation game in which the Earth Defense Alliance attempts to save the earth from extraterrestrial invasion.

Plans for a film adaptation are also in process. Wil Wheaton, who narrated the audiobook version of Cline's previous novel, Ready Player One, performs the audiobook of Armada as well. The story follows a teenager who plays an online video game about defending against an alien invasion, only to find out that the game is a simulator to prepare him and people around the world for defending against an actual alien invasion. Print ( hardcover and paperback), e-book, audiobookĪrmada is a science fiction novel by Ernest Cline, published on Jby Crown Publishing Group (a division of Penguin Random House).
