Only You Can Save Mankind

Posted on 01 September 2017 by Terry Pratchett

It s just a gameisn t it The alien spaceship is in his sights His finger is on the Fire button Johnny Maxwell is about to set the new high score on the computer game Only You Can Save Mankind.Suddenly, a message appears We wish to talk We surrender.But the aliens aren t supposed to surrender they re supposed to die Best Read Only You Can Save Mankind [ By ] Terry Pratchett [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr So this is Terry Pratchett outside of Discworld.It was ok, but I think it was a short story stretched into a book The big theme of war being real and not a game was a bit preachy, but maybe that s because it s aimed at the YA audience.Then the author touches on universal problems faced by kids everywhere parents on the verge of a break up, trying to fit in with the other kids, surviving in the inner city, etc But since these are not the main story, he never goes anywhere with them.I wasn t en So this is Terry Pratchett outside of Discworld.It was ok, but I think it was a short story stretched into a book The big theme of war being real and not a game was a bit preachy, but maybe that s because it s aimed at the YA audience.Then the author touches on universal problems faced by kids everywhere parents on the verge of a break up, trying to fit in with the other kids, surviving in the inner city, etc But since these ar...Better with age.Older ReviewConsidering the popularity of first person shooters, this book is still very timely It s Pratchett, it s funny and delivers a message Kristi is the protype of Hermonie Enjoyable.A really good what...Another great story by Pratchett He must wake up every morning and think, What should I make fun of today And then he proceeds with mockery while sneaking in valuable social insights This book is shorter than most of his other books, but it made for great au...This book was how Terry Pratchett dealt with the first gulf war, I think I wish I had read it when I was a kid and images of that war were broadcast over my TV screen, interrupting my favorite television shows and occupying the conversation of adults The main character in the book, Johnny, cared a bitthan I did, but felt basically the same these images carried no meaning, as bland and removed from life as an old, out of date video game There s one hugely funny bit where Johnny defines This book was how Terry Pratchett dealt with the first gulf war, I think I wish I had read it when I was a kid and images of that war were broadcast over my TV screen, interrupting my favorite television shows and occupying the conversation of adults The main character in the book, Jo...From School Library JournalJohnny 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 t From School Library JournalJohnny 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...I d never read this series before, but I picked up the second and third at library sales a few years back, and in preparing for a month of reading, I came across them on the shelves and thought it was time The Johnny Maxwell series is solid middle grade SF with a touch of typically Pratchett esque humor In this book, Johnny is playing a video game that involves slaughtering invading aliens when his screen displays the message that the aliens want to surrender They re tired of dying when a pl I d never read this series before, but I picked up the second and third at library sales a few years back, and in preparing for a month of reading, I came across them on the shelves and thought it was time The Johnny Maxwell series is solid middle grade SF with a touch of typically Pratchett esque humor In this book, Johnny is playing a video game that involves slaughtering invading aliens when his screen displays the message that the aliens want to surrender They re tired of dying when a player dies, of course he returns again and again, but the aliens are permanently destroyed when they re shot and want Johnny to give them safe conduct back to their own world Johnny, at first reasonably disbelieving, comes to real...Okay, I give this book a 3sort of I like Sir Terry s writing He s sharp and can generally make a sharp quip with a dull point This book isn t quite so good.Oh, there are some laughs and the plot while not totally new that the world inside games is real in it s own way is a good one It opens with a cute idea The young man playing a new computer game is busy fighting his way through the enemy alien fleet , he s made it to the huge mother shipand they surrender He gets text on his Okay, I give this book a 3sort of I like...While Pratchett s main productions are Fantasy he occasionally tinkered in the scifi genre This is the first part of a trilogy , based around a weird kid called Johnny Maxwell.The book is fun and quite cheeky and still has the common Pratchett approach of turning things on their head to make you see things differently In this case he completely reverses the basic concepts of an Alien shooter computer game, starting with the premise that the Aliens don t want to die and decide to surrender and Whil... From BBC Radio 4 Extra Sci fi drama from Terry Pratchett.This is not my cup of tea.I picked up this book to read something short and light in between another books Oh, and because it s Terry Pratchett.I was surprised by this book It s definitely short but not as light as I was expecting Even the title of the book is not how it seems You don t need to save mankind from aliens You need to save mankind from well, mankind Only You Can Save Mankind is about war and Johnny Maxwell coping with it It s about the difference between reality and a dream Or, to beprecise, it I picked up this book to read something short and light in between another books Oh, and because it s Terry Pratchett.I was surprised by this book It s definitely short but not as light...

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01 September 2017

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