- Computer games, Conduct of life, Fiction, Juvenile fiction
Twelve-year-old Johnny endures tensions between his parents, watches television coverage of the Gulf War, and plays a computer game called Only You Can Save Mankind, in which he is increasingly drawn into the reality of the alien ScreeWee.
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Effortless, classical in form, comic and cool.
- effortlessdemanding
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Terry Pratchett
- First published
- 1992
- Pages
- 221
- Publisher
- Goldmann, Corgi, Audiobooks
- Editions
- 33
- Language
- tur, wel, French, Russian
- ISBN
- 9788420448404
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“Johnny bit his lip and concentrated.”
Sir Terence David John Pratchett, OBE more commonly known as Terry Pratchett, was an English novelist, known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre. He is best-known for his popular and long-running Discworld series of comic fantasy novels. Pratchett's first novel, *The Carpet People*, was published in 1971, and since his first Discworld novel (*The Colour of Magic*) was published in 1983, he has written two books a year on average. Pratchett was the UK's best-selling author of the 1990s, and as of December 2007 had sold more than 55 million books worldwide, with translations made into 36 languages. He is currently the second most-read writer in the UK, and seventh most-read no
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