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	Johnny and the Bomb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Johnny and the Bomb is a 1996 novel by Terry Pratchett.
		The action of the novel revolves around an incident during World War II in which Johnny's inoffensive home town of Blackbury was hit by a bomb during an air raid intended for an industrial complex at another nearby town.
		In January 2006 the BBC aired a three-part television adaptation of Johnny And The Bomb, starring George MacKay as Johnny, Zoe Wanamaker as Mrs Tachyon, Frank Finlay as Johnny's grandad Tom, and Keith Barron as Sir Walter.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Johnny_and_the_Bomb (349 words)

	Terry Pratchett, Johnny and the Bomb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
		Johnny Maxwell is back for another adventure in Blackbury in Terry Pratchett's Johnny and the Bomb.
		Johnny discovers a "time lorry," a bag-lady's means of circumventing the usual linear flow of history, and is then stuck with the dilemma of leaving history as is or taking action to try and save some Blackbury residents who, in 1941, were in the wrong place when the Luftwaffe flew overhead.
		I hope Johnny and the Bomb isn't the last we'll see of Johnny and his friends -- this cast of characters and their wonderful misadventures are too good to lie fallow for long!
	www.rambles.net /pratchett_johnnybomb.html (236 words)

	Andy's Anachronisms -- Review of Johnny and the Bomb by Terry Pratchett
		Johnny being somewhat of a local history buff is convinced that something should be done to warn the residents and avert the loss of life.
		With Johnny and The Bomb, author Terry Pratchett has proven once again that he's a more than capable writer and story teller even when he strays from the familiar territory of his Discworld series.
		Johnny and the Bomb is the third in a series of novels that seemed pitched at early adolescents, but will surely entertain young and old alike.
	www.timetravelreviews.com /books/pratche1.htm (769 words)

	Johnny And The Bomb
		Johnny Maxwell and his friends come across mysterious old bag lady Mrs Tachyon injured in an alleyway, and when she is taken to hospital they are left in charge of her squeaky trolley and a bunch of fl bin bags.
		When Johnny and Kirsty visit Mrs Tachyon in hospital, she tells them her trolley is special - or at least the bags are, the 'Bags of Time', as she calls them.
		Johnny learns this the hard way - his time-travelling exploits mean that he no longer exists, at least not in this life, and his gang have to figure out exactly what they did that caused things to go so horribly wrong.
	www.sfcrowsnest.com /features/arc/2006/nz9720.php (1539 words)

	Johnny and the Bomb (2006) (TV) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
		'Johnny and the Bomb' is the perfect example of the BBC actually using our licence fee money to produce excellent entertainment instead of squandering it on dreary soaps and repetitive music competitions.
		However, by messing with the timeline, the children are forced to face the repercussions when they return to their own time and find out they changed history, resulting in Johnny's grandmother being killed as a teenage girl in a German bombing.
		'Johnny and the Bomb' is a nice mix of science fiction, light fantasy, drama with a smidgen of romance.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0498319 (606 words)

	Amazon.com: Only You Can Save Mankind (Johnny Maxwell Trilogy, 1.): Books: Terry Pratchett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
		Johnny also discovers that he is able to enter the alien ship in dreams and grows convinced that the aliens are somehow real, and are actually dying when human players shoot at them.
		Johnny Maxwell is an extremely smart but otherwise ordinary English boy, who enjoys hanging out with his friends Wobbler, Yo-less, and Bigmac (their respective nicknames are all explained in the book) and exchanging pirated video games.
		Johnny is an endearing hero in the mold of Pratchett's Discworld character Teppic, a young and slightly naive young boy with a quick brain and a very difficult situation.
	www.amazon.com /Only-Mankind-Johnny-Maxwell-Trilogy/dp/0060541857 (3106 words)

	Book Review: The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy
		His story of Johnny and a computer game where the oncoming opponents say "We surrender", and what happens next in the confluence of RealSpace and GameSpace is great fun and very thoughtful.
		The Johnny books are more in the realist mode, and again, this is broad generalisation...
		introduces Johnny and his friends to the Dead who live in a local cemetary that has just been purchased by a local conglomerate for 5 pounds and other considerations.
	www.bewilderingstories.com /issue138/book.html (785 words)

	Review of Johnny and the Bomb at the Edinburgh Fringe on Broadway Baby
		Johnny and the Bomb is an enjoyable Terry Pratchet story involving time travel, a bag lady and the eponymous Johnny.
		The year is 1996 and Johnny and his 4 friends discover a time travelling shopping trolley that allows them to travel back and forwards to 1941.
		Of course, time travel is never as simple as it seems and soon the friends are in a race against time to change the past and ensure their future survival.
	www.broadwaybaby.com /edinburgh/fringe/reviews/johnnyandthebomb (342 words)

	Johnny and the Bomb - Terry Pratchett - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
		Johnny Maxwell and his friends go back to the time of the Blitz in 1941.
		'Johnny And The Bomb' is the third instalment in the Johnny Maxwell Trilogy, and I recommend wholeheartedly that you read the previous two as well.
		Johnny and his pals, Yo-less, Bigmac and Wobbler find a local bag lady, Mrs Tachyon in an alley.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/johnny-and-the-bomb-terry-pratchett (304 words)

	Amazon.com: Johnny and the Bomb: Books: Terry Pratchett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
		Johnny and the Bomb (Johnny Maxwell Trilogy) by Terry Pratchett
		Johnny notices that some of her bags seem to move of their own accord at times, and this discovery quickly leads to an episode of quite unexpected time travel.
		Johnny Maxwell's little gang is blatantly based on William's, with Ginger and the rest of them and in particular the alpha-female Violet Elizabeth Bott here replicated in the polyonymous Kassandra/Kirsty/Klytemnestra.
	www.amazon.com /Johnny-Bomb-Terry-Pratchett/dp/0385406703 (2760 words)

	Johnny Maxwell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Johnny Maxwell is a fictional character in a series of three children's books by Terry Pratchett.
		Johnny has a sort of gang, consisting of the kids who hang around with each other because they don't fit into any of the school cliques.
		In Johnny and the Bomb Wobbler got stuck in 1941 and grew up to be a billionaire, calling himself Sir John (Sir Walter in the TV version), but due to the time travel and multiple timelines involved where and if this happened is questionable.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Johnny_Maxwell (729 words)

	Johnny Maxwell
		Then Johnny starts having incredibly lifelike dreams...where he's at the controls of a starfighter, and the alien fleet, hanging in space before him, is waiting for him to lead them safely home.
		But Johnny can, and he's got bad news for them: the town council wants to sell the cemetery and put up an office complex.
		Johnny and his friends find this out the hard way when they discover Mrs.
	home.inreach.com /hups/johhny.htm (348 words)

	Johnny and The Bomb TV Show - Johnny and The Bomb Television Show - TV.com
		Based on the novel by Terry Pratchett, Johnny and The Bomb chronicles the time-traveling events that lead Johnny Maxwell and his friends back in time to the Second World War.
		Sir Walter is in fact Wobbler, he was trapped in the past when the butterfly effect occured.
		Jonny, Kirsty and Yo-less return to the past to try and put things right and rewrite history so Jonny is born and Wobbler can return to the present.
	www.tv.com /johnny-and-the-bomb/show/52837/summary.html (218 words)

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		The chosen few were from the Johnny Maxwell trilogy from Terry Pratchett - Johnny and the Bomb and Only You Can Save Mankind.
		The total unreality of Johnny's world is different from the fairyland of the average adult fiction book.
		Johnny and the Bomb doesn't even belong on the same shelves.
	t3.dotgnu.info /blog/books/only-you-can-save-mankind.html (799 words)

	Johnny and the dead by Terry Pratchett - Book
		Not surprisingly, Johnny’s friends don’t believe him at first, but his outstanding courage shines through and he manages to save the cemetery with a little help.
		Johnny Maxwell, a twelve-year-old boy battles against all odds to save his new friends’ homes and he’s got bad news for them; the council wants to sell the cemetery as a building site for new company, United Amalgamated Consolidated Holdings.
		This proves a heavy challenge for Johnny, as he has to cater for the individuals’ needs and mind them, at the same time as trying to save the cemetery in various ways.
	www.sffworld.com /book/3276.html (434 words)

	BookLoons Reviews - Johnny Maxwell Slipcase by Terry Pratchett
		Johnny is a 'natural worrier', who as his friend Wobbler says, has 'An imagination so big it's outside your head.
		As Johnny is pulled in through the wormhole in his head - along with his friends - the boundary between real and game worlds begins to dissolve.
		The next episode, Johnny and the Bomb, takes Johnny and company back to explore 'the other leg of the Trousers of Time' beginning with their town Blackbury's World War II experience.
	www.bookloons.com /cgi-bin/Review.asp?bookid=5536 (552 words)

	Boing Boing: Pratchett's Johnny and the Bomb coming to BBC TV
		The BBC has announced that it is adapting Terry Pratchett's brilliant kids book Johnny and the Bomb (part of the Johnny Maxwell trilogy, which includes Only You can Save Mankind and Johnny and the Dead) for TV.
		The Johnny Maxwell books deal with the fantastic adventures of three pre-teen Brit kids who travel through time and dimensions having advetures that are pure Pratchett: funny and humanistic at the same time.
		When Johnny Maxwell and his friends come across mysterious old bag lady Mrs Tachyon in an alleyway, they soon realise there is more to her than a squeaky trolley and a bunch of fl bags.
	www.boingboing.net /2005/09/13/pratchetts_johnny_an.html (283 words)

	Powell's Books - Johnny & the Dead by Terry Pratchett
		Johnny is the only one who can see them, and and the previously alive need his help to save their home and their history.
		Johnny didn’ t mean to become the voice for the lifeless, but if he doesn’ t speak up, who will?
		In Johnny Maxwell's second adventure, Carnegie Medalist Terry Pratchett explores the bonds between the living and the dead and proves that it’ s never too late to have the time of your life — even if it is your afterlife!
	www.powells.com /biblio/1-006054189x-0 (184 words)

	johnny and the bomb - tv review for zone-sf.com
		However, after a disastrous foray into 1941, Johnny returns home to find that he has edited himself out of history by indirectly contributing to the death of his own grandmother forcing him to set things right with the help of his gang and a mysterious billionaire.
		Simply put, Johnny And The Bomb is a triumph and by far and away the best piece of children's TV that I have seen for a long time.
		Thoroughly wonderful from beginning to end, Johnny And The Bomb is a must not only for Pratchett fans but also for fans of sci-fi in general.
	www.zone-sf.com /screenscene/johnbomb.html (373 words)

	Terry on TV
		Starring Zoe Wanamaker, Frank Finlay and Keith Barron, Johnny and the Bomb comes from the makers of the award-winning CBBC dramas Feather Boy and Stig of the Dump.
		The third title in Pratchett's Johnny Maxwell trilogy, Johnny and the Bomb has been adapted for television by Peter Tabern, winner of an International Emmy and the Bafta Children's Writer award for his adaptation of Stig of the Dump in 2001.
		Executive produced for the BBC by Head of CBBC Drama, Jon East, Johnny and the Bomb is being filmed on location in South Wales.
	www.sfcrowsnest.com /news/arc/2005/nz9357.php (325 words)

	Book Information: Johnny and the Bomb :: Internet Book List :: A database of book information and reviews
		But when Johnny Maxwell and his friends find her semi-conscious in an alley, they have to do something...
		The more time Johnny spends with her, the more he finds that Mrs.
		Suddenly now isn't the safe place Johnny once though it was, as he finds himself boundup more and more with then.
	www.iblist.com /book2927.htm (185 words)

	Johnny and the Bomb \| BBC One 5.35pm - Digital Spy Forums
		Johnny and the Bomb is a cracking yarn with a sprinkling of social commentary, satire and humour, which has attracted an impressive cast.
		BTW 'Johnny' was also in 'Magnificent 7' (BBC2 late last year) and he was great in that.
		Johnny and the Bomb has made me see it differently.
	www.digitalspy.co.uk /forums/showthread.php?t=329673 (1231 words)

	Buy Johnny And The Bomb DVD Video from Woolworths.co.uk online shop
		Johnny and the Bomb is based on the novel by Terry Pratchett and stars Zoe Wanamaker (Harry Potter, Five Children and It), Frank Finlay (Life Begins, Heartbeat, The Pianist) and Keith Barron (Duty Free, Where the Heart Is).
		When Johnny Maxwell and his friends help mad old Mrs Tachyon with her trolley full of strange fl bags, they end up in 1941, at the height of the wartime Blitz.
		In fact, Johnny won't have a life at all...
	www.woolworths.co.uk /ww_p2/product/index.jhtml?pid=50734310 (161 words)

	SCI FI WIRE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
		SF writer Terry Pratchett's best-seller Johnny and the Bomb is being turned into a children's drama for the U.K.'s BBC One in 2006, the BBC News Web site reported.
		Johnny and the Bomb, the third title in Pratchett's Johnny Maxwell trilogy, is being filmed by Ballykissangel director Dermot Boyd, the site reported.
		The drama is being produced for the BBC by Childsplay Television and is being filmed in South Wales.
	www.scifi.com /scifiwire/handheld/32454.html (110 words)

	Johnny And The Bomb \| Films \| Showcomotion Young People's Film Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
		Owing to a chance encounter with a time-travelling Mrs Tachyon and her 'Bags of Time', Johnny and his friends end up going back to 1941.
		Lost in the past, the gang can't help making changes, changes that affect history to the point where Johnny's own grandmother might die in an air-raid and Johnny himself might never even be born.
		Hathersage-based Peter Tabern is the award-winning screenwriter and producer of Johnny And The Bomb and we are delighted that he is coming to talk after the screening about the making of the original series for CBBC and this special feature length version.
	www.showcomotion.org.uk /films/?film=241 (195 words)

	Edinburgh Festivals - Johnny and the Bomb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
		The little English town of Blackbury, where Johnny Maxwell and his by-the-numbers cronies (fat one, nerdy one, idiot and token spunky female) live, is remarkable only for being mistakenly targeted by the Luftwaffe during the Blitz.
		A gibbering bag lady, Mrs Tachyon, sets off an unexploded bomb, and suddenly her supermarket trolley becomes a time machine.
		But, oddly, the full ramifications of attempting to save victims of the bombing are ignored in favour of a neatly packaged ending.
	www.edinburgh-festivals.com /reviews.cfm?id=1191932006 (335 words)

	Events: TV: Johnny and the Bomb
		The BBC in the UK have commissioned award-winning independent Childsplay Television to produce a three-part version of Terry Pratchett's 'JOHNNY and THE BOMB' starring GEORGE MacKAY as Johnny Maxwell with ZOE WANAMAKER as Mrs Tachyon, FRANK FINLAY as Johnny's Grandad, Tom Maxwell, and KEITH BARRON as the mysterious Sir Walter.
		He published his first story when he was thirteen and since then his books, and particularly the 'Discworld' series, have been translated into thirty-odd languages with worldwide sales topping forty million.
		'JOHNNY and THE BOMB' is one of an award-winning series of stories for younger readers.
	www.lspace.org /fandom/events/tv/johnny-and-the-bomb.html (1126 words)

	Discworld Convention 2006 : News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
		Progress is being made on the production of "Johnny and the Bomb" for BBC television.
		The BBC in the UK have commissioned award-winning independent Childsplay Television to produce a three-part version of Terry Pratchett's 'JOHNNY & THE BOMB' starring GEORGE MacKAY as Johnny Maxwell with ZOE WANAMAKER as Mrs Tachyon, FRANK FINLAY as Johnny's Grandad, Tom Maxwell, and KEITH BARRON as the mysterious Sir Walter.
		'JOHNNY & THE BOMB' is one of an award-winning series of stories for younger readers.
	www.dwcon.org /saxon/display-item.php?newsid=46 (239 words)

	Radio Times \| Win a digital camera and the new Johnny and the Bomb DVD! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
		Based on Terry Pratchett's novel and recently shown on BBC1, Johnny and the Bomb is a feature-length children's drama that follows Johnny and his four best friends as they are unexpectedly thrown back in time.
		When they end up in the middle of the Second World War, they realise that everything they do will have a massive impact on their lives in the future.
		Johnny and the Bomb is available to buy on DVD from 4 September from Warner Vision.
	www.radiotimes.com /content/competitions/johnnybomb (465 words)

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