General Information
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 Title:                  Only You can Save Mankind
 Author:                 Terry Pratchett
 Read By:                Richard Mitchley
 Copyright:              1997
 Audiobook Copyright:    1997
 Genre:                  Speech
 Series Name:            The Johnny Maxwell Series
 Position in Series:     01
 Abridged:               Yes

Original Media Information
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 Source:                 Cassette

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Book Description
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Grade 5-8–Johnny Maxwell, 12, thinks he's a loser. People don't seem 
to notice him, his parents are threatening to split up, and he's not 
very good at the shoot-up-the-bad-guys computer games that he and his 
friends are always playing. But after his hacker buddy, Wobbler, gives 
him an illegal copy of Only You Can Save Mankind, strange things happen. 
The captain of the alien fleet that Johnny is supposed to shoot up surrenders 
to him–unheard of in a computer game–and soon after that all of the 
aliens from all copies of the game have vanished. Players looking for 
someone to shoot at sail through light years of empty space and return 
the game to the store, demanding their money back. Johnny also discovers 
that he is able to enter the alien ship in dreams and grows convinced 
that the aliens are somehow real, and are actually dying when human 
players shoot at them. And soon the day arrives when the humans can 
resume their shooting. The story is told against the backdrop of the 
1991 Gulf War, in which many of the battles were fought with the help 
of PC screens, and the antiwar message of the story soon becomes a little 
too heavy-handed and obvious. Although the storytelling here is not 
as polished as it is in Pratchett's The Wee Free Men (HarperCollins, 
2003), the humor is sharp and the story is great fun to read. This is 
the first in a trilogy published in England; U.S. editions of Johnny 
and the Dead and Johnny and the Bomb will soon follow.–Walter Minkel, 
New York Public Library
