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  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407042749
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224

Only You Can Save Mankind




The first of Terry Pratchett's terrific fantasy novels starring Johnny Maxwell - now with a brand-new look

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.

  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407042749
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224

About the author

Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett was the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. In all, he was the author of over fifty bestselling books. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal, as well as being awarded a knighthood for services to literature. He died in March 2015.

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Praise for Only You Can Save Mankind

A wonderful new Pratchett-style fantasy: funny and thrilling enough for anyone who can read fluently

Daily Mail

An impressively original book with its thrills and spills, its inventiveness, its wit and continuous readability

Daily Telegraph

Everyone should read Terry Pratchett. Maybe it should be part of the National Curriculum?

Families

Funny and exciting

Spectator

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

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