A love letter to the 1980s and to nerds everywhere--The Impossible Fortress will make you remember what it feels like to love someone--or something--for the first time.

Billy Marvin's first love was his computer.

Then he met Mary Zelinsky.

Do you remember your first love?

It's May 1987. Fourteen-year-old Billy Marvin of Wetbridge, New Jersey, is a nerd, but a decidedly happy nerd. Afternoons are spent with his buddies, watching copious amounts of television, gorging on Pop-Tarts, debating who would win in a brawl (Rocky Balboa or Freddy Krueger? Bruce Springsteen or...