Chaotic Reviews Armada by Ernest Cline
Armada is the next highly anticipated blockbuster from Ernest Cline. This book is everything a geek needs in a novel. With nods to everything from Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, Name of the Wind, World of Warcraft, Firefly, Battlestar Gallactica, Power Rangers, Aliens and so many more that I must stop now, before your eyes glaze over. Ernest Cline is geek cultures dream author. To a point this really heightens the reading, and the fun, but at some point you start to think - enough. It gets too much which is the difference in the writing between Ready Player One and this new book. Even with the over play, every cultural mention engages you as the reader as you remember other stories in an intertwined culture. As his friends fighting over Wonder Woman's use of Sting (the sword, not the singer), Zachary Ulysses Lightman fights with himself for control of his emotions, and with reality when things start getting dodgy. Invading aliens? A government cover up that has lasted al...