Truckers (1989)
Truckers is a 1989 department stores, fiction book written by Terry Pratchett.
Beneath the floorboards of a vast department store live the nomes, four inches tall and certain the world ends at the walls. Generations have taught them that Arnold Bros founded the Store and that Outside is a fairy story. Then Masklin and a small band of genuine outsiders climb off a delivery truck, full of talk about rain, stars, and open sky. They also carry worse news: the Store faces the wrecking ball. Terry Pratchett opens his Bromeliad trilogy with plucky little people, big questions about belief, and a plan that should be impossible.
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What is Truckers about?
Beneath the floorboards of a vast department store live the nomes, four inches tall and certain the world ends at the walls. Generations have taught them that Arnold Bros founded the Store and that Outside is a fairy story. Then Masklin and a small band of genuine outsiders climb off a delivery truck, full of talk about rain, stars, and open sky. They also carry worse news: the Store faces the wrecking ball. Terry Pratchett opens his Bromeliad trilogy with plucky little people, big questions about belief, and a plan that should be impossible.
When was Truckers published?
Truckers was published in 1989.
Who made Truckers?
Truckers was written by Terry Pratchett.
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Fans of small heroes in a giant world should watch The Secret World of Arrietty, Studio Ghibli's take on tiny borrowers slipping through a human house. Chicken Run brings the same underdog escape plan and dry British comedy, while A Bug's Life scales society down into an insect epic. All three share Terry Pratchett's warmth toward the very little taking on the very large.
Tiny or hidden societies who leave the only world they've known
Truckers begins with nomes who genuinely believe the department store is the whole universe, until a small band climbs onto a truck and sees open sky for the first time. A Bug's Life, Arrietty and Chicken Run all follow miniature societies making the same terrifying leap out of a sheltered, enclosed world. The Matrix and The People of Sparks push the same discovery to a human, apocalyptic scale.