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Tussie Mussie

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Co-Winner of the GenCan't Design Contest Tussie-Mussie is based on Victorian fad that assigned...

Slap Shots!

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** Please note: You must TAP AND HOLD to get power for a shot then RELEASE to shoot.** Slap Shots!...

Indigo

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Indigo is a tile-laying game along the lines of Metro, Tsuro, and Linie 1 in which players build...

David McK (3425 KP) rated Armada in Books

Jan 28, 2019

Armada

Ernest Cline | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry

7.6

(16 Ratings)

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I had high hopes for this one.

I quite enjoyed [b:Ready Player One|9969571|Ready Player One|Ernest Cline|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1406383612s/9969571.jpg|14863741] and it's almost-plausible-near-future setting that read a bit like a mix between Bruce Willis's movie "Surrogates" with a dash of "The Matrix" thrown in, and always like a bit of sci-fi.

Unfortunately, this fell flat for me.

I don't know whether it's because it's not as believable (and yes, I'm futher aware that I'm talking about fiction here) as [b:Ready Player One|9969571|Ready Player One|Ernest Cline|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1406383612s/9969571.jpg|14863741], or because I could tell where the plot was going within the first 100 pages or so - think "The Last Starfighter" meets "Ender's Game" with a bit of "BattleStar Galactica" thrown in for good measure, but - for me - this just didn't really do it.

Tricky second novel syndrome, perhaps?

N.B.: I did pick up on the numerous real-world sci-fi references :-)