Books by Ernest Cline and Complete Book Reviews

Ready Player One
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline. Crown, $24 (384p) ISBN 978-0-307-88743-6
This adrenaline shot of uncut geekdom, a quest through a virtual world, is loaded with enough 1980s nostalgia to please even the most devoted John Hughes fans. In a bleak but easily imagined 2044, Wade Watts, an impoverished high school student who...
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Armada
Armada
Ernest Cline. Crown, $26 (368p) ISBN 978-0-8041-3725-6
What if the X-Files were a “fictional alien cover-up created to conceal [a] real one”? Cline (Ready Player One) makes this kind of paranoia intriguing in an SF novel whose strong opening compensates for a less gripping ending. After Zack Lightman’s...
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Armada
Armada
Ernest Cline, read by Wil Wheaton. Random House Audio, , unabridged, 10 CDs, 12 hrs., $45 ISBN 978-0-8041-4911-2
When Zack Lightman sees aliens in the sky, he thinks he is going crazy like his conspiracy-theory-prone father, who died in a mysterious accident when Zack was a kid. Growing up, Zack distracted himself with gaming, achieving one of the world’s top...
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