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They have built utopia on earth at last, 10 000 years in the making... They build it on a platform that covered the polluted surface of the world, turned mens eyes away from unsolved problems of the old bad days, and brought their shining new cities up to the perpetual sunlight.
But down there, in the lamplight 'sky' of the old surface, life has persisted. Men existed, and semi-men, and things that never were men... and nobody in the sunlight above knew of them - until disturbing dreams began to intrude and visions bothered few sensitive minds.
One man investigated. One man went down to that forgotten basement of the earth and thereby uncovered the grave of the world that was - and let its transformed phantoms glimpse the light above.
This is the masterwork of an acclaimed author of the Grainger and Daedalus novels - a triumph of future fiction.
They have built utopia on earth at last, 10 000 years in the making... They build it on a platform that covered the polluted surface of the world, turned mens eyes away from unsolved problems of the old bad days, and brought their shining new cities up to the perpetual sunlight.
But down there, in the lamplight 'sky' of the old surface, life has persisted. Men existed, and semi-men, and things that never were men... and nobody in the sunlight above knew of them - until disturbing dreams began to intrude and visions bothered few sensitive minds.
One man investigated. One man went down to that forgotten basement of the earth and thereby uncovered the grave of the world that was - and let its transformed phantoms glimpse the light above.
This is the masterwork of an acclaimed author of the Grainger and Daedalus novels - a triumph of future fiction.
