Tag: computer games

Only You Can Save Mankind

Only You Can Save Mankind

by Terry Pratchett (Doubleday, 1992)

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The aliens in Johnny’s computer game are real, in eye-opening contrast to his dissociated home life and the Gulf War’s televised entertainment. The concept entices but the execution feels hurried. Moreover, Pratchett’s twelve-year-olds remain in now incongruous accord with the early 1990s.

 

Derelict Space Sheep