Wings
Author: Terry Pratchett
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. And one nome, Masklin, knows that they’ve got to try and contact this ship. It means going to Florida (wherever that is), then getting to the launch of a communications satellite (whatever th….Read More
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