The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy · Book 1
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.
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