The Bromeliad Trilogy · Book 3
Wings
- Published
- 1 January 1990
- Pages
- 215
- ISBN-13
- 9780385304368
- Type
- novel
About this book
Wings closes the trilogy in 1990 at 215 pages, revealing the Nomes' extraterrestrial origins and their plan to return to space -- the payoff of Pratchett's philosophical undercurrents about faith and how a small society decides what's true about a world too big to fully perceive.
Its place in The Bromeliad Trilogy
Wings is book 3 in the The Bromeliad Trilogy series. It follows Diggers. See the full The Bromeliad Trilogy reading order.
Also known as the Nome Trilogy, this children's fantasy series follows the Nomes -- a race of tiny people, only a few inches tall, who have lived hidden inside a department store for a decade believing it to be the entire universe. Truckers (1989) begins when the store's imminent demolition forces the Nomes to make contact with the small band of 'Outside' Nomes who have survived in the wild, and to stage a desperate, resourceful escape aboard a stolen truck. It's Pratchett at his most inventive with scale…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780385304368