Event

Ernest Cline: Armada

Peninsula Arts & Letters and Kepler's present Ernest Cline

Tuesday, July 14, 2015
7:30pm

Kepler's Books
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA 94025

If you loved Ready Player One as much as we did (BoingBoing.com called it "A rollicking, surprise-laden, potboiling, thrilling adventure story...the best science-fiction novel I've read in a decade") then you will be as excited as we are to host Ernest Cline for his new book, Armada - the book we are dying to get our hands on.

Zack Lightman has spent his life dreaming. Dreaming that the real world could be a little more like the countless science-fiction books, movies, and videogames he's spent his life consuming. Dreaming that one day, some fantastic, world-altering event will shatter the monotony of his humdrum existence and whisk him off on some grand space-faring adventure. But hey, there's nothing wrong with a little escapism, right? After all, Zack tells himself, he knows the difference between fantasy and reality.

And then he sees the flying saucer. Even stranger, the alien ship he's staring at is straight out of the videogame he plays every night. No, Zack hasn't lost his mind. As impossible as it seems, what he's seeing is all too real. But even through the terror and exhilaration, he can't help thinking back to all those science-fiction stories he grew up with, and wondering: Doesn't something about this scenario seem a littlefamiliar?

At once gleefully embracing and brilliantly subverting science-fiction conventions as only Ernest Cline could, Armada is a rollicking, surprising thriller, a classic coming of age adventure, and an alien invasion tale like nothing you've ever read beforeone whose every page is infused with the pop-culture savvy that has helped make Ready Player One a phenomenon.
Science fiction fans: it doesn't get better than this!

The event is free - please register today.