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1) Dust
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"Wool introduced the world of the Silo. Shift told the story of its creation. Dust will describe its downfall. Juliette, now mayor of Silo 18, doesn't trust Silo 1, especially its leader, Donald. But in the world of the Silos, there is no black and white -- everything is shades of gray. Donald may not be the monster Juliette thinks he is, and may in fact be key to humanity's continued survival. But can they work together long enough to succeed?"--...
2) Wool
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In a ruined and toxic landscape, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. In a society full of regulations meant to protect the community, Sheriff Holston, unexpectedly breaks the greatest taboo of all: he asks to go outside. An unlikely candidate is appointed to replace him: Juliette, a mechanic with no training in law, whose special knack is fixing machines. Now Juliette is about to be entrusted with fixing her silo,...
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Willis George Emerson wrote the Smoky God in 1908. It is subtitled A Voyage to the Inner Earth. Olaf Jansen was a Norwegian sailor who sailed his sloop through an entrance near the North Pole to the earth's interior. This novel is an early example of an underground civilization. Jansen spent two years with the inhabitants in a network of subterrannean colonies. A smoky central sun lighted the world. Their capital city was believed to be the original...
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Timber Press
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2021.
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English
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Subterranea is where the world's remaining mysteries are yet to be found. For millennia, across nations and cultures, it has been a hotbed of fantastical stories. It's where humans have kept their most sacred treasures and their darkest secrets. It's where we have found evidence of our past and may, at some point, find an escape route for our uncertain future. But what would we find there today? From the underground cities of Cappadocia to smuggling...
5) The ark plan
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Edge of extinction volume 1
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"One hundred and fifty years ago, the first dinosaurs were cloned. Soon after, they replaced humans at the top of the food chain. The only way to survive was to move into underground compounds. ... Five years ago, Sky Mundy's father vanished from North Compound without a trace. Now she has just stumbled on a clue that not only suggests his disappearance is just the tip of an even larger mystery, but also points directly to the surface. To find her...
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2000
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"In post-apocalyptic America, surviving is hard work. Basic necessities are at a minimum. Vic, an 18-year-old loner, roams the landscape looking for food and women. He is joined by his dog, Blood, whom he communicates with telepathically. When Vic is lured into a subterranean society of survivors, he must leave his only friend to fend for himself on the surface. Is life really better underground or will Vic need to escape everything he thought...
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"For eons, the city of Troy--whose legendary fall was detailed in Homer's Iliad--was believed to be myth, until archaeologists in the nineteenth century uncovered its ancient walls buried beneath the sands. If Troy was real, how much of Homer's twin tales of gods and monsters, curses and miracles--the Iliad and the Odyssey--could also be true and awaiting discovery? In the frozen tundra of Greenland, a group of modern-day researchers stumble on a...
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W.W. Norton & Company
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[2019]
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English
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In Underland, Macfarland delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself. He takes us on an extraordinary journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind. Traveling through "deep time" - the dizzying expanses of geologic time that stretch away from the present - he moves from the birth of the universe...
11) Moscow zero
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Inc
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[2008]
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English
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An anthropologist doing research in an underground city in Moscow goes missing and it's up to a priest and a rescue team to find him, learning terrifying secrets along the way.
13) Spiral
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Tunnels volume 5
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Chicken House/Scholastic
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2012.
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English
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The outer crust is under attack by the subterranean Styx who are turning ordinary humans into walking bombs and incubators for their eggs, and only Will Burrows and his band of retired commandos stand in their way--but the Styx also have problems of their own.
14) City of Ember
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
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[2009]
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English
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For centuries, the residents of the underground City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights and quiet contentment. But when the City's massive power generator begins to fail, the streetlamps fade - along with the hopes of the townspeople. Now it will be up to two courageous teenagers to follow a trail of clues left by the ancient builders to find the way out of Ember before their world is plunged into complete darkness.
15) Shift omnibus
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CreateSpace
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2013.
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English
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In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platform that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate. In the same year, the CBS network re-aired a program about the effects of propranolol on sufferers of extreme trauma. A simple pill, it had been discovered, could wipe out the memory of any traumatic event. At almost the same...
16) Subterranean
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Making their way beneath the Antarctic ice toward the center of the world, a team of specialists traverses rocks, caverns, and underground rivers in darkness, not knowing the incredible wonders--and terrors beyond imagination--that lie ahead.
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Jim Henson Co
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2004.
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English
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Beginnings: Gobo's uncle discovers a way to leave Fraggle Rock and venture out into our world - a land he calls Outer Space. Wembley and the Gorgs: Giant Gorgs capture Wembley and enslave him. Let the water run: A one-Fraggle swim show is in trouble when a drought hits Fraggle Rock and the swimming hole turns into a mud puddle.
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Chris Contes
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"For thirteen-year-old Lanie Speros, the journey from anonymous middle school life to epic subterranean adventure begins during a road trip. The accidental revelation of a hidden tunnel under her yard leads her family and best friend on a thrilling motorhome voyage full of danger, destruction and narrow escapes. But more importantly, it's a voyage of self-discovery--one that changes Lanie's entire outlook on what it means to become a teenager."--Back...
20) The evolution underground: burrows, bunkers, and the marvelous subterranean world beneath our feet
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Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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