Only You Can Save Mankind
- Published
- 1 January 1992
- Pages
- 221
- ISBN-13
- 9785699335190
- Type
- novel
About this book
Only You Can Save Mankind (1992) opens the Johnny Maxwell trilogy at 221 pages, the shortest of the three, as Johnny discovers the alien fleet in his video game is asking him to negotiate a real ceasefire, against the backdrop of the Gulf War.
Key facts about Only You Can Save Mankind
Terry Pratchett wrote Only You Can Save Mankind, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1992. The book has 221 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9785699335190 to find the main one.
Only You Can Save Mankind is book 1 of 3 in The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy series. The series has 3 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
Additionally, Terry Pratchett writes Discworld, The Bromeliad Trilogy and The Long Earth as separate series. Those series sit on our fantasy and science fiction shelves. Meanwhile, The Long Cosmos is the latest published Terry Pratchett book on file, from 30 June 2016.
About Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett was an English author whose Discworld series became one of the most beloved and best-selling comic fantasy works in the language, running to forty-one novels published between 1983 and his death in 2015. See every Terry Pratchett book in order.
Its place in The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy
Only You Can Save Mankind is book 1 in the The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy series. It is followed by 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 9785699335190