Services to share this page. EXCLUSIVE: Dan Mazeau has been tapped to write a draft of Armada based on Ernest Cline‘s New York Times best-selling novel for Universal Pictures. Cline wrote an earlier ...

“Armada,” Ernest Cline’s follow-up to “Ready Player One,” proves he has the ability to blend popular culture with exciting stories that appeal to everyone, especially readers who grew up in the 1980s.

At one point in Armada, Ernest Cline’s latest novel, the protagonist Zachary Lightman gets brought to a secret military base run by the Earth Defense Alliance, which admits that it has been training ...