This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2015 by Dark All Day, Inc.
Excerpt from Ready Player One copyright © 2011 by Dark All Day, Inc.

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Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

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Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 2015.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cline, Ernest.
Armada : a novel / Ernest Cline.
1. High school students—Fiction. 2. Human-alien encounters—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3603.L548A89 2015
813′.6—dc23
2015009421

ISBN  9780804137256
Ebook ISBN  9780804137263

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Illustrations by Russell Walks
Cover design by Christopher Brand
Cover illustration by Sam Spratt

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