Product Description

This omnibus contains "Truckers", "Diggers" and "Wings" - a trilogy of tales about a race of little people struggling to survive in a world full of humans.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #418545 in Books
• Published on: 2000-06-20
• Released on: 2000-06-20
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 519 pages

From the Back Cover
TRUCKERS To the thousands of tiny nomes living under the floorboards of a large department store, there is no Outside. No Day or Night, no Sun or Rain. They're just daft old legends. Until the devastating news that the Store is to be demolished. Now the nomes have to think. And they have to think BIG...

DIGGERS A Bright New Dawn is just around the corner for the nomes when they move into an abandoned quarry. Or is it? For when humans turn up, they begin to mess everything up again. Now the nomes have two choices: to run, or to hide. Or maybe, they could... fight. But for how long can they keep the humans at bay - even with the help of the monster Jekub?

WINGS It's a ridiculous plan. Impossible. To hitch a ride on a truck with wings - Concorde. And then steal one of those space shuttle things. But home is home, and the nomes want to get there. They don't mean to cause any trouble. Really...

Hilariously inventive, marvellously witty and highly original, Truckers, Diggers and Wings form a magnificent trilogy of tales about a race of little people struggling to survive in a world full of humans: the Bromeliad trilogy.

Customer Reviews

Brilliantly funny read
This is the first Pratchett book I have ever read. It has sat on my shelf for 10 years, & I finally read it. I can't believe I waited so long. It was soooo funny. I never wanted to put it down, or to stop reading it. I wish that he had continued his tales of the nomes. I was just smiling so much as I read the book. How the simple things in life can be so easily twisted around & taken for their face value is so amusing. If you like humor with a good story, then this is the book for you. It is supposed to be a childrens story, but I find that to be far from the truth. It is a book for everyone of every age.

Pratchett's best.
I've never been a huge Pratchett fan. His science fiction books are good enough if I don't have anything else on my list although quite frankly I enjoy paging through this internet Pratchett annotations site. The late Douglas Adams's works are snappier and less dated--I ame in awe of Adams's devastation of heavy metal music in a chapter or two, but Pratchett took rather longer to slam a genre or two in _Soul Music_.

Except for the _Bromeliad Trilogy_ where in 400 pages of gentle humor Pratchett shows that you don't need to go into outer space to create a new world. It's a story of nomes, who are four inches tall but move ten times as fast as humans. Their deity is Arnold Bros.(1905) because that's what it says on the store window outside where they live. We find out they have a sort of Bible(quotes make headers for the chapter) and also try to discover signs from Arnold Bros. (one says "If You Do Not See What You Require, Please Ask.")

But one day they find out the store(which some sects think encompass the whole world) is about to be demolished, and this takes us on a journey where everyday human conveniences are objects of wonder. Part of the fun of reading is to see how soon on the page you can figure out the object described. The other part is watching their faith in Arnold Bros. buffeted as they learn about humans, our language and conventions we take for granted, technology, and nature in Diggers(another dramatic escape at the end) before a climactic meeting with Grandson Richard, 39, in Wings.

I can't say this is indicative of Pratchett's work, but it is certainly my clear favorite at about the same length as a Discworld novel with at least as much drama and humor.

Little people get into big trouble, and out again.
Unknown to the humans, they share the Earth with another intelligent race, the nomes. The reason they don't know about the nomes is that they are four inches tall, and live at a pace ten times that of humans. This is the story of Masklin, and other heroic nomes who lead their people out of the dangerous world of humans, in search of their home. In the course of this story the overcome great obstacles, all with wit and humor.

This book is actually a collection of three book: Truckers, Diggers and Wings. The stories showcase Terry Pratchett's wit and humor, his ability to examine the human experience from a very different viewpoint. The action is gripping, and the humor outrageous. I highly recommend this book.