Armada : A Novel by Ernest Cline (2015,‎ Hardcover)

👾 ARMADA BY ERNEST CLINE – HARDCOVER W/ DUST JACKET  🎮 From the author of Ready Player One comes a joystick-wielding, alien-blasting, retro-sci-fi throwback that'll light up your 1980s soul. 📡 I was just a kid who played video games. Then the government showed up. Yeah, it's that kind of story.  ----------------------------------------  🛸 PLOT POWER-UP:  Zack Lightman is your average high school gamer with a hyperactive imagination, a thirst for vintage arcade glory, and a bedroom that's one X-Wing poster short of a geek museum. But when he sees a real spaceship straight out of his favorite video game hovering above his school? Suddenly that fantasy isn't so fictional anymore.  Turns out his gaming wasn't a waste of time — it was training. And Zack might just be Earth's last hope against an alien threat that's been hiding in the pixels all along.  ----------------------------------------  🧠 BOOK SPECS:  * Title: Armada  * Author: Ernest Cline  * Format: Hardcover with Dust Jacket  * Publisher: Crown / Random House  * ISBN: 9780804137256  * Condition: Very Good – minor shelf wear on the dust jacket corner (likely from interstellar turbulence), otherwise crisp, clean, and button-mashing ready.