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 * __Only You Can Save Mankind by: Terry Pratchett __**

Only You Can Save Mankind is a very interesting book. People that like adventure, video games and aliens would definetly enjoy it. I am not one of those people so personally, I didn't enjoy it as much.

The book starts with a boy named Johnny Maxwell. His friend Wobbler gives a copy of Only You Can Save Mankind (a video game) to Johnny. When Jonny starts playing the game he get mysterious messages inside the game. The first message being, "We wish to talk to you," then another, "We surrender." Johnny had no idea what was going on! The aliens were supposed to die not surrender. Soon Johnny responds to the aliens not knowing what else to do. He learns that when all the players kill the aliens in the game the aliens really //do// die, that the aliens are real living things not just a part of the game. Johnny thinks that Wobbler was just trying to pull a prank on him but when he called Wobbler to ask about it Wobbler had absolutly no idea what he was talking about.

Johnny went to bed and then was //in// the computer game with the ScreeWee aliens. The captain of the ScreeWee were explaining to him everything that was happening. The ScreeWee were all dying because of the video game. Johnny came to relization that the ScreeWee trusted him to save all of them. Johnny tried everything from communicating with other players telling them to stop to just defending the ScreeWee through battle but nothing worked. The ScreeWee kept dying no matter what he did. While everyone was dying the ScreeWee were getting angry, they didn't agree with what the Captain wanted them to do so they captured the Captain and put him in the ScreeWee jail. Then, acting as if they were the Captain the ScreeWee kept telling Johnny to stop fighting for them, that they would be okay. Johnny too confused just kept defending them.

Johnny comes across a player named Kristy and tries to make her stop fighting the ScreeWee. She doesn't believe him at first but is interested in what he had to say so they decided to meet in person. Kristy started to believe Johnny but she hated what he was saying. She loved to win, winning was everything to her. If she helped protect the ScreeWee that meant not winning. They decided to dream themselves into the game. When they both got there they woke up in the Captains jail. They came up with a plan to help the ScreeWee's. Find out what happends in the end of the book by reading __Only You Can Save Mankind by Terry Pratchett.__  This book has a lot of ups and downs in it. It also had a lot of interesting characters. If you like video games with aliens involved this is the book got you.