![]() Instead, it offers little more than interminable video game–style battles and timeworn tropes, including a plot twist that can be seen coming for miles. In the hands of a more skilled writer, the book could have drawn on familiar stories to launch into a new science-fiction adventure. Now, Zack and his fellow gamers must step up and defend Earth for real. ![]() When aliens invade, Zack is whisked away to a secret training facility where he learns the game he’s devoted years of his life to playing has always been an advanced tactical simulation, much like the plot to the 1984 movie The Last Starfighter. ![]() It’s a crazy theory that, of course, turns out to be absolutely true. In the attic, Zack finds not only his dad’s favorite movies on VHS, but also a detailed conspiracy theory his father wrote when he was 19, claiming video games and movies about alien invasions have been secretly funded by a shadowy organization to prepare humanity for the real thing. ![]() He’s obsessed with '80s science fiction, ostensibly because it’s a way to fill the void left by his dead father. Teenager Zack Lightman loves playing games online with his friends, although any similarities to teenagers of today end there. ![]() From the author of Ready Player One (2011), another book centered around video games and the 1980s. ![]()
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