Only You Can Save Mankind

by Terry Pratchett
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A fantastic new B format edition of the first Johnny Maxwell novel

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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 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 ... Shortlisted for The Guardian Children's Fiction Award 'An impressively original book with thrills and spills, its inventiveness, its wit and continuous readability' The Daily Telegraph From the author of the phenomenally successful Discworld series and The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, which won the 2001 Carnegie Medal.

Editorial Reviews

"An impressively original book with its thrills and spills, its inventiveness, its wit and continuous readability" - Daily Telegraph

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

"Funny and exciting" - The Spectator

"Terry Pratchett's funny, fast-moving story makes provocative reading for all computer games players....Makes a serious point out of a ridiculously comic example" - Children's Books of the Year

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

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