Title: Wings
Author(s): Terry Pratchett
Release year: 1990
Publisher: Doubleday
Why in Database: “Wings” is the third and final part of the trilogyy (the previous ones are Truckers and Diggers), the only one in which turtle element appears. It is also worth adding that in addition to the edition under this title, there is also a collective edition on the market, containing all three of these books – it is called Bromeliad Trilogy.
In total, there are four mentions of turtles, one of which is the heroes see, and the other three refer to the fact that there are turtles in Florida (the first of this quotes appears before the scene of seeing the turtle, it comes from the introduction to chapter five, these introductory fragments are quotes from a work that was written by one of the heroes AFTER the events of the book).
FLORIDA (or Floridia): A place where alligators, longnecked turtles, and space shuttles may be found.
Their temporary camp overlooked a ditch. There didn’t seem to be any winter in Florida, and the banks were thick with greenery. Something like a flat plate with a spoon on the front sculled slowly past. The spoon stuck out of the water for a moment, looked at the nomes vaguely, and then dropped down again.
‘What was that thing, Thing?’ said Masklin.
The Thing extended one of its sensors.
‘A long-necked turtle.’
‘Oh.’
The turtle swam peacefully away.
‘Lucky, really,’ said Gurder.
‘What?’ said Angalo.
‘Its having a long neck like that and being called a Long-Necked Turtle. It’d be really awkward having a name like that if it had a short neck.’
‘Apart from turtles with long necks,’ he said, ‘what other animals are there here, Thing?’
They watched the grasses. A damp warm world inhabited by insects and turtles was suddenly a disguise for horrible terrors with huge teeth.
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