Truckers
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Under the floorboards of the Store is a world of four-inch-tall nomes that humans never see. It is commonly known among these nomes that Arnold Bros. created the Store for them to live in, and he declared: "Everything Under One Roof." Therefore there can be no such thing as Outside. It just makes sense.
That is, until the day a group of nomes arrives on a truck, claiming to be from Outside, talking about Day and Night and Snow and other crazy legends. And they soon uncover devastating news: The Store is about to be demolished. It's up to Masklin, one of the Outside nomes, to devise a daring escape plan that will forever change the nomes' vision of the world...
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3 primary booksBromeliad Trilogy
Bromeliad Trilogy is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 1989 with contributions by Terry Pratchett.
Series
3 primary booksБромелиада
Бромелиада is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 1989 with contributions by Terry Pratchett.
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If you like Pratchett's stuff, you'll probably like this. It's a fun story about little people who live in the floors of a department store. They have to move and learn how to drive a truck.
The narrator was clearly thinking of Monty Python's ‘priest reading from the holy book' during much of this. So glad to discover another world from Terry Pratchett's imagination. Right up there with [b:The Wee Free Men 34494 The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30; Tiffany Aching, #1) Terry Pratchett https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1443764106l/34494.SY75.jpg 62580]
This is one of Terry Pratchett's best books. Full of many delicious touches of humour, it also offers genuine sympathy for the plight of human-like creatures four inches high, stranded in a world full of large and dangerous creatures, including full-sized humans.Unlike most of his books, this is science fiction rather than fantasy, and I like that too; although he doesn't really deal with the problem of how the nomes with their smaller brains can have human-like intelligence.The life of nomes in the wild is dealt with realistically, and the life of nomes in the Store is both realistic and richly comical.Unfortunately for their comfort, the Store is facing demolition, and they have to leave it. With that accomplished, the book comes to an end. You have to buy the sequels to read the rest of the story, which is worth reading.The nomes have a traditionally patriarchal society, and there are few female nomes on display here; adding more of them would have scored points with feminists but would probably have contributed little to the story. Pratchett has created plenty of good female characters in his time, but he's a man, and the majority of his characters are men. I'd rather have him concentrate on writing good stories than worry about meeting his quota of female characters.I'm a bit puzzled by the unusual name Masklin for the hero of the story. Rather similar to Masculine, but it also reminds me of Mesklin, the name of the high-gravity planet in [b:Mission of Gravity 525285 Mission of Gravity Hal Clement https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1328628795l/525285.SY75.jpg 894625]. I guess that it just came to Pratchett out of the blue and he had no particular motive for using it.
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