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Terry Prachett
· Born 28 April, 1948
· Beaconsfield, England
· Early interests: astronomy,
collected tea cards about space.
Which led him to science fiction!
· Published his first story "The
Hades Business" at the age of 13
· Left school when he was 17 to
start a career as a journalist
Terry Prachett
· Married with Lyn in 1968
· Their daughter Rhianna is
also a writer
· Was diagnosed with
Alzheimer's disease
· Was knighted in 2009
· Made himself a sword!
· Has a observatory in his
garden
The Truckers
· First published in 1988
· Between Fantasy and Sci-Fi
· First book in the Bromeliad Trilogy
· Children's book
· Also for grown-ups
· Humorous and easy to read
The Truckers
· Setting:
Between 1980s and 1990s
*In the fields
*In a department store
· Main characters:
about 10 cm tall human-like
creatures
*Masklin - static brave and
adventurous
*Grimma - static
*The Abbot - flat
*Grannie Morkie - flat
*Gurder - flat
The Truckers
· Starts off in the fields...
· Desperate times - desperate measures
· They arrive in a department store
· No-one belives them of being from the
outside!
· The store is about to be demolished
· The nomes start evacuating and steal a
truck!
The Truckers
Quotes:
"Outside! What's it like?"
"Well It's sort of big"
"It's a small step for a man,
but a giant leap for
nomekind."
...while reading all sorts of books to understand how to drive a
lorry, they came across "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
...soon after they started looking for a potion that would make
them bigger!
The Truckers
Conflict
Tiny little nomes VS men!
...to hitch a ride
...to steal a truck
Tiny little nomes VS nature!
...to hunt or to be hunted!
References
· http://www.lspace.org/about-terry/biography.html
· http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Pratchett
· http://www.sffworld.com/book/3274.html
· http://www.youtube.com/watch?
feature=player_detailpage&v=W7AxKCFk05k#t=195s
· http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=CoHBYgDu5oU&feature=player_detailpage#t=94s
Thank you!
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