The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy · Book 3
Johnny and the Bomb
- Published
- 1 January 1996
- Pages
- 256
- ISBN-13
- 9780552556934
- Type
- novel
About this book
At 256 pages, Johnny and the Bomb (1996) is the longest of the trilogy and closes it out three years after Johnny and the Dead, sending Johnny and his friends back in time to a WWII bombing raid.
Its place in The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy
Johnny and the Bomb is book 3 in the The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy series. It follows Johnny and the Dead. See the full The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy reading order.
Johnny Maxwell is an ordinary, slightly odd teenager in an unglamorous English town whose life keeps intersecting with things that shouldn't be possible. In Only You Can Save Mankind (1992), Johnny discovers that the alien fleet in his video game is asking him -- specifically him -- to negotiate a ceasefire, forcing him to reckon with the fact that he's been mindlessly slaughtering sentient beings for entertainment, all while the real-world backdrop of the Gulf War plays on the news. It's one of Pratchett's…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780552556934