It did give me a huge amount of anxiousness going into writing it.
I had to then stop and do and now I've been working on it nonstop for the last two years. So it was hard to think about anything else once I was there. It was also great because I was in the Stacks - on the set of the movie - in this recreation of things from my imagination. So that motivated me and it was great because as we were finishing the movie, Steven started to ask me questions about what the sequel might be about so he could get that into the ending of the first movie. And if there's no book to base the sequel on, then that won't stop them. Also, I knew then there was like a ticking clock because if the movie does well, then they're going to want to make a movie sequel.
That's when I started to really write the sequel. I don't think I really started writing until they started production on the movie, which got me back into living in the world of Ready Player One. As I was finishing the first book, and I knew the first book was going to be published, ideas started to formulate in the back of my head. And it's just the first in a blur of revlations that will force him to question everything he thought he knew about Earth's history, its future, even his own life-and to play the hero for real, with humanity's life in the balance.īut even through the terror and exhilaration, he can't help thinking: Doesn't something about this scenario feel a little bit ?Īt once reinventing and paying homage to science-fiction classics as only Ernest Cline can, Armada is a rollicking, surprising thriller, a coming-of-age adventure, and an alien invasion tale like nothing you've ever read before.ERNEST CLINE: I tried to set up the possibility of a sequel when I wrote the first novel. So when he sees the flying saucer, he's sure his years of escapism have finally tipped over into madness.Įspecially because the alien ship he's staring at is straight out of his favorite videogame, a flight simulator callled Armada-in which gamers just happen to be protecting Earth from alien invaders.Īs impossible as it seems, what Zack's seeing is all too real. And too often, he catches himself wishing that some fantastic, impossible, world-altering event could arrive to whisk him off on a grand spacefaring adventure.
He vastly prefers the countless science-fiction movies, books, and videogames he's spent his life consuming. Zack Lightman has never much cared for reality. From the author of Ready Player One, a rollicking alien invasion thriller that embraces and subverts science-fiction conventions as only Ernest Cline could.
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