Terry Pratchett’s novel Only You Can Save Mankind is a charming and fine young adult novel about a kid who discovers that the Space Invaders he chases onscreen are a distant fleet who are being massacred by his hand. Like all Pratchett, it is funny as anything, and like all of Pratchett’s YA novels, it’s eminently suitable for grownups as well.
The book has been adapted for the stage and will run this summer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Pratchett says, “If I’d known it was going to be so good I’d have written a better book.”
(Thanks, Lynn!)
Update: Philip sez, “It’s currently being broadcast as a 3-part radio play on BBC 7 and can be found beginning here until next Monday (15th Nov).