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As Earth is being ravaged by a series of apocalyptic events known as the Disaster, a coalition of architects, scientists, and doctors (called the Builders) create an underground city named Ember, with an initial population of 200 citizens (100 elderly adults, 100 babies), to ensure humanity survives, with the intention that future generations of the city will not know about the outside world ...
Having discovered that New York was built on top of a massive hollow cavity, an architect devises a plan to build an underground city below Manhattan. The underground setting then becomes the scenario of the apocalyptic battle between a clairvoyant and an international terrorist. A Hollow Earth featured in the children's Choose Your Own ...
The book placed on The New York Times Children's Chapter Books Bestseller List in February and March 2008. It is the first book in the Tunnels series, and was followed by Deeper (2008), Freefall (2009), Closer (2010), Spiral (2011) and Terminal (2013). BBC Audiobooks and Recorded Books have released audio editions.
It is located under New York, with most of its entrances leading out to what is now New York City. In the first novel, a character named Vikus tells Gregor (the protagonist) that the Underland humans are descended from a group of "Overlanders" who, led by a man named Bartholomew of Sandwich, settled underground over a period of some fifty years ...
Children's book Novel 2005 War Metro 2033: Dmitry Glukhovsky: Set in the metro tunnels of post-apocalyptic Moscow. A man named Artyom journeys to the central city of the metro, Polis, to find answers about a possible threat called the Dark Ones. Film 2005 Disease Æon Flux: Based on MTV's animated series Æon Flux: Game 2005 Impact Event Guild Wars
Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Shane W. Evans. It was published by Roaring Brook Press in 2011 and received the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustrators in 2012. [1]
Julilly was born a slave on the Hensen Cotton Plantation in Virginia.Her initial happy life was changed when slave traders from the Deep South arrived. Julilly was taken from her mother's arms and moved to The Riley Plantation in Mississippi, where she meets Liza, an injured girl who needs help making it to the land of the free-Canada.
Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon: Mind the Gap: A Novel of the Hidden Cities (2008) Lisa Goldstein: Dark Cities Underground (1999) James Herbert: The Rats (1974; also 1982 film Deadly Eyes) Tobias Hill: Underground (1999). Involves disused South Kentish Town Underground station. Russell Hoban: The Underground is a character in Kleinzeit.