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Twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell has a knack for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. This has never been more true than when he finds himself in his hometown on May 21, 1941, over forty years before his birth! An accidental time traveler, Johnny knows his history. He knows England is at war, and he knows that on this day German bombs will fall on the town. It happened. It's history. And as Johnny and his friends quickly discover, tampering with history can have unpredictable—and drastic—effects on the future. But letting history take its course means letting people die. What if Johnny warns someone and changes history? What will happen to the future? If Johnny uses his knowledge to save innocent lives by being in the right place at the right time, is he doing the right thing? Mixing nail-biting suspense with outrageous humor, Terry Pratchett explores a classic time-travel paradox in Johnny Maxwell's third adventure.
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Rocco Dolciato
reviewed Johnny and the bomb on February 10, 2017 Johnny and the bomb
I've always been a fan of Terry Pratchett's Johnny Maxwell series - they were written and published during what I'd consider to be his golden years, and what's interesting about the Johnny Maxwell books is that they're set in our reality.
In this book, Johnny and his friends take a trip back in time after finding a magic, time-travelling trolley that belongs to the local bag lady. That allows Pratchett to experiment with genre, by writing a sort of realistic fantasy, which has some grounding in historical fact - it takes you back to the Second World War, albeit in the fictional town of Blackbury.
It's a lot of fun, because Pratchett plays around with cause and effect, and shows us his own bastardised version of the butterfly effect. He also talks about the trousers of time, a concept which I think he also used in the Discworld. And the crazy bag lady said "Millenium hand and shrimp", which might sound familiar.
Overall, I have a lot of love for the Johnny Maxwell series, and this was probably my second favourite so far. So read it!
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