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Only You Can Save Mankind

By: Terry Pratchett
Narrated by: Richard Mitchley
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Summary

IF NOT YOU, WHO ELSE?

As the mighty alien fleet from the latest computer game thunders across the screen, Johnny prepares to blow them into the usual million pieces. And they send him a message: We surrender.

They're not supposed to do that! They're supposed to die. And computer joysticks don't have 'Don't Fire' buttons . . .

But it's only a game, isn't it. Isn't it?

The first book in the Johnny Maxwell trilogy.

 Fantasy Fiction Humorous Fiction Literature & Fiction Science Fiction Science Fiction & Fantasy Comedy Game

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Critic reviews

An impressively original book with its thrills and spills, its inventiveness, its wit and continuous readability
A wonderful new Pratchett-style fantasy: funny and thrilling enough for anyone who can read fluently
Funny and exciting
Terry Pratchett's funny, fast-moving story makes provocative reading for all computer game players . . . Makes a serious point out of a ridiculously comic example
Everyone should read Terry Pratchett. Maybe it should be part of the National Curriculum?
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I read this when it came out, it was set at the time (early nineties) and I was in my late teens, but it really caught being a kid in the late eighties, and being a kid just getting by, not certain about anything. Johnny's a brilliant character, and close to home.
Remarkable when you consider Pratchett was a totally different generation, how accurate he got it.
It's very funny, and a genuinely brilliant idea, and bringing all the Gulf War stuff in really made it resonate.
All that heavy stuff in it, and yet it's still affable and enjoyable, it's fun and intense at the same time, how did he do that?
A good good book.

Maybe my favourite book from Pratchett

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Not my favourite in the trilogy, but I think that these stories are underrated and should be more popular than they are.

Only You Can Save Mankind

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I love this book, like every other Pratchett book before and after it, all though it's not set on the disc it's still well written and the plot is interestingly enjoyable.

Fun and enjoyable

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It is exiting and it is weird because there is alians and stuf it is so sad that terry pratchett is dead yes R.I.P terry

Johnny is amazing

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Although this book is for younger readers, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
The characters are brought to life by the great narratives.

Another great title from Mr. P.

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