The science fiction book that I read is Armada by Ernest Cline. After reading his first book Ready Player One I had really high hopes for Armada. Ready Player One is a big nerd adventure kind of like Willy Wonka but in a different setting. Armada on the other hand is more of a stereotypical save the world, find your dead dad, and get the girl type. Armada has many fun elements. Ernest Cline's works are based around nerd culture like video games, comic books, and 80s tv shows. Armada is no different. This book focuses on Zack Lightman, an 18 year old boy with anger issues and a video game problem. When he was a baby Zack’s father died in an accident at a Sanitary plant. The characters in this book are enjoyable for the most part. There are
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Zack is insanely good at a videogame called “Armada.” The game has a fictional universe, that happens to be real, where aliens are coming to attack earth, and there are cool locations, drones to fly, and leaderboards that rank the players from best to worst depending on their call sign. The setup for the main plot takes a surprisingly long time to set up. Zack does not arrive on moon base until 200 pages into the book. The book spends way too much time on the insanely long fight scenes that take up 20 pages at a time. A big part of the book was wasted on insanely long fight scenes that could have instead been used to focus on the story that could have been much more interesting if they spent a little bit more time on it. For example on pages 145-149, Zack has a giant fight that goes into way too much detail. The story had a lot of potential that it was so close to fully realizing. I feel like if they tried to flesh out some of the other characters a little more maybe I would have care a little bit more. The book has two big settings, Zack´s hometown of Portland, Oregon, and moonbase alpha on of course, the moon. The places seemed realistic, even though one of them is a giant moon base. Portland was just used as as a place on earth, nothing special at all is used from the location. The author cannot even make a hipster joke about
Zack is insanely good at a videogame called “Armada.” The game has a fictional universe, that happens to be real, where aliens are coming to attack earth, and there are cool locations, drones to fly, and leaderboards that rank the players from best to worst depending on their call sign. The setup for the main plot takes a surprisingly long time to set up. Zack does not arrive on moon base until 200 pages into the book. The book spends way too much time on the insanely long fight scenes that take up 20 pages at a time. A big part of the book was wasted on insanely long fight scenes that could have instead been used to focus on the story that could have been much more interesting if they spent a little bit more time on it. For example on pages 145-149, Zack has a giant fight that goes into way too much detail. The story had a lot of potential that it was so close to fully realizing. I feel like if they tried to flesh out some of the other characters a little more maybe I would have care a little bit more. The book has two big settings, Zack´s hometown of Portland, Oregon, and moonbase alpha on of course, the moon. The places seemed realistic, even though one of them is a giant moon base. Portland was just used as as a place on earth, nothing special at all is used from the location. The author cannot even make a hipster joke about