The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy · Book 2
Johnny and the Dead
- Published
- 1 January 1993
- Pages
- 240
- ISBN-13
- 9780552576772
- Type
- novel
About this book
Johnny and the Dead followed a year later in 1993 at 240 pages, with Johnny helping the residents of a condemned cemetery stop their graveyard from being sold off.
Its place in The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy
Johnny and the Dead is book 2 in the The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy series. It follows Only You Can Save Mankind. It is followed by Johnny and the Bomb. 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 9780552576772