It wasn't a thing it was a bit of shaped sky Somewhere in a place that is so far up there is no down a ship is waiting to take the nomes home
- back to wherever they came from & one nome Masklin knows that they've got to try & contact this ship It means going to Florida (wherever that is) then getting to the launch of a communications satellite (whatever that is) A ridiculous plan Impossible But Masklin doesn't know this so he tries to do it anyway & the first step is to try & hitch a ride on a new kind of truck a truck with wings
- Concorde The final title in the magnificent trilogy The Bromeliad