![]() ![]() But what takes his breath away isn’t the architecture or the scope or the grandeur or the stars in the sky or the isolation. The moon base is a “breathtaking site,” according to Zack. ![]() “If you aren’t familiar with the works referenced here, that stretch of writing is gibberish. Instead they make Armada feel even more like a failed attempt to recapture the cleverness of Cline’s debut.” - AVClub. But put against such a lackluster backdrop, they can’t drive the novel the way they did in Ready Player One. “Plenty of the references and geeky arguments in Armada are hilarious, from Star Wars-themed insults to debates about the relative merits of fantasy weapons. “While the aims of the novel are onanistic rather than malicious, Armada nonetheless demands to be bronzed as the perfect embodiment of the impulses that so often make games-and gaming culture-boring, self-indulgent, and regressive.” - Slate. ![]()
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