<p>When you¿re four inches high in a world full of giant people, things never go very well for long.<br><br>After running into trouble at the quarry, the nomes want to go home. The problem is, ¿home¿ is somewhere up in the stars, in some sort of Ship.<br><br>Masklin must find a way to get to the ¿launch¿ of a ¿communications satellite¿ (whatever that is). <br><br>And so begins an incredible journey, filled with peril, planes, honking geese . . . and a walking sandwich.<br><br>The fantastically funny third book of the nomes, from the author of the bestselling Discworld series.</p>