Reading order
Terry Pratchett's Bromeliad Trilogy series: 3 books.
Read them in the order they were published
Under the floorboards of a large department Store lives a tribe of four-inch-tall nomes who believe Arnold Bros. created the Store for them and that Outside does not exist. When a group of Outside nomes arrives by truck, they bring word that the Store is closing and will be demolished. Masklin, one of the newcomers, must convince the Store nomes and lead a daring escape before everything is destroyed.
After leaving their department store, a group of tiny nomes settles in an abandoned quarry. Winter arrives with frozen puddles and falling ice, and then humans arrive to reopen the site. The nomes face conflict among themselves as they try to protect their refuge, aided by a creature called Jekub.
SpoilersAfter fleeing the department store, the nomes settle in an abandoned quarry. Winter arrives with frozen puddles and falling ice, and then humans arrive to reopen the site. The nomes face conflict among themselves as they try to protect their refuge, aided by a creature called Jekub.
Masklin searches for a way to reach a waiting ship and return the nomes to their home world. He must locate a human named Grandson Richard Arnold, travel from England to Florida, and get the Thing into the sky during a satellite launch so it can send a signal. Everyone at the quarry depends on him, and the survival of his people hangs on an impossible plan.
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About the author
Sir Terry Pratchett OBE (1948–2015) was an English author born in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, best known for the satirical fantasy Discworld series. He published his first short story at thirteen and wrote more than 70 books. Discworld is set on a flat world carried by four elephants standing on a giant turtle; across 41 novels he used that premise to examine politics, religion, money, death, war, and everyday...
Also by Terry Pratchett: Equal Rites, The Colour of Magic, Guards! Guards!, Men at Arms, Raising Steam, Reaper Man
Terry Pratchett reflects on his introduction to science fiction fandom and how meeting established authors inspired him to write.
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Pratchett recalls that early sci-fi conventions were low-tech gatherings of men in sports jackets, where he first experienced both drinking beer and throwing up.
“a science fiction convention was a room full of guys in sports jackets all called Ted”
Pratchett explains that early science fiction had a built-in ethos where famous authors mingled freely and were willing to share advice with aspiring writers.
“built in to the whole science fiction ethos was that you paid forward”
Meeting literary figures like Arthur C. Clarke made Pratchett realise that writers were not mythical giants, giving him the confidence to write down his own stories.
“these authors, who were in my imagination men of gold half a mile high, were normal people.”
Pratchett describes fandom as a democratic space that naturally inspires people to write, noting how that creative impulse persists in modern online fan fiction.
“The democracy of the low literary world, the gutter literary world!”
Questions
There are three Bromeliad Trilogy books. The series is complete.
Start with Truckers and read them in publication order: Truckers (1989), Diggers (1990), Wings (1990).
Truckers, published in 1989. Under the floorboards of a large department Store lives a tribe of four-inch-tall nomes who believe Arnold Bros. created the Store for them and that Outside does not exist. When a group of Outside nomes arrives by truck, they bring word that the Store is closing and will be demolished. Masklin, one of the newcomers, must convince the Store nomes and lead a daring escape before everything is destroyed.
Yes. Wings (1990) is the final book.
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