HARPERCOLLINS ROCKS!

[tealin]

Only You Can Save Mankind, the first in the Johnny Maxwell trilogy, will be released in the US on July 1, 2005. Send in those library request forms now!

I solemnly swear HarperCollins did not pay me to say this.


5:10 pm
Perhaps this is not the last week of work after all. Perhaps all this "senioritis" has been in vain!
I go now to buy coconut milk. For lo, yesterday there was a sale, and I had not the strength of will to carry it home. O Great Master of Coconut Milk Price, will it yet be 69c a can?

Epilogue
And yea, the coconut milk was yet 69c, and Tealin in her quest did purchase nine cans thereof, for indeed that was all she could carry.

Comments

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

As far as I know (which isn't very far), the only US edition was the omnibus released by the Science Fiction Book Club ... With the magic of the internet, it's been available to order from England or Canada, but the amount one had to pay for a scrawny paperback was just silly. I do know that practically no library had one – the library I visited when I lived there had a fair number of Discworld books but no clue about Johnny Maxwell, and after I mentioned it on my site, I got quite a few emails from across the country saying, in effect, 'Does this book really exist? I can't find it anywhere!'

Anyway, as far as amusement regarding history repeating: Only You Can Save Mankind was set during the Gulf War in 1991 ... oddly enough, rather than dating it (as it would have done five or six years ago) it seems to make it all the more relevant now.

[inkblot-fiend.livejournal.com]

Too true... I never truly understood Stormin' Norman till all the Iraq coverage was on TV. Also, on my first reading I did not get why Johnny's nickname was Rubber. The great thing about Terry Pratchett is you always seem to discover something new upon rereading.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Um... I still don't get the 'Rubber' thing. The best I've been able to come up with is something to do with... the British term for an eraser? Care to illuminate?

[inkblot-fiend.livejournal.com]

A "Rubber Johnny" is slang for a condom, heh. I only got it when I heard one of my friends use it. I sat there for ages going, "Wha - ?" but then it became more of a snigger.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhh!

Haha. And in a kids' book.

[inkblot-fiend.livejournal.com]

Isn't it weird?

Of course, you only get it when you put the words together and know the slang, so it's quite sneaky.