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Re: UE in Fiction and other books
<Reply # 20 on 12/14/2005 4:50 PM >
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Posted by womprat
"Reliquary" (Sequel to Relic) by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child - protagonist has to explore the abandoned tunnels under NYC.



"Relic" itself has UE stuff in it... lots of museum catacombs. Most of the third act takes place there. (By the way, read the book -- do not rent the movie.)

Preston & Child tend to feature dank, dark underground settings in their novels.

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Re: UE in Fiction and other books
<Reply # 21 on 12/17/2005 12:19 PM >
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I can't believe I forgot to list this book in my original post:

Rendezvous with Rama

The archetypal Sci Fi UE.

Exploring an empty alien spacecraft, not knowing what to find/expect. Great series of books.

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Re: UE in Fiction and other books
<Reply # 22 on 12/31/2005 4:58 AM >
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"Odd Thomas" by Dean Koontz involved a few chapters that took place in drains, then a good deal of action in an abandoned hotel/casino. There are a lot of ghosts, though. He's also written a two-book miniseries, "Fear Nothing" and "Seize the Night," in which the main character often explores an abandoned genetics lab. "Phantoms" and "The Taking" are also worth looking into, though those are more about people vanishing from places than abandoned places themselves...

Stephen King's "The Stand" was mentioned earlier in this thread...I love that book too, I just wish he would've gone on to describe the condition of all the lovely places ten or twenty years after the apocalypse.

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Re: UE in Fiction and other books
<Reply # 23 on 12/31/2005 11:49 PM >
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Posted by womprat
I can't believe I forgot to list this book in my original post:

Rendezvous with Rama

The archetypal Sci Fi UE.

Exploring an empty alien spacecraft, not knowing what to find/expect. Great series of books.


excellent book... I have been an Arthur C. Clarke fan since i was a wee little lad.

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Re: UE in Fiction and other books
<Reply # 24 on 1/3/2006 2:14 PM >
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I realize I'm getting into this discussion late, but I just want to put in my two cents for Snow Crash... If we're talking about fictional places to explore, The Raft would be at the top of my list.

The rest of what I read has little connection to UE that I can think of. But isn't it interesting that so many of us are science fiction fans? (Anyone else subscribe to Analog?)

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Re: UE in Fiction and other books
<Reply # 25 on 1/5/2006 12:35 PM >
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on the darker side of UE, the 'manhattan hunt club' is good.

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Re: UE in Fiction and other books
<Reply # 26 on 3/18/2006 7:55 AM >
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Hrm...

"Urban Nightmares" (ed. Josepha Sherman & Keith R.A. DeCandido) has the short story "Gator", by Robert J. Sawyer. It's about a paleontologist searching through the sewers of NYC looking for what everyone thinks are alligators. The anthology has some other interesting stories-- and some truly skippable ones.

"I Am Legend" by Richard Matheson is sorta UE. It's a classic "last man alive" story, set in an urban setting. Robert Neville has to survive by gathering supplies during the day-- and hiding from vampires at night. It was written in 1954, so it could certainly be one of the first of the stories of its type set in an actual urban setting.

And (shameless plug) my own UE short story appears in "Mythspring" (ed. Julie E. Czerneda & Genevive Kierans), which should be on bookshelves next week (23/05/06... at least in Canada). The story is "Over Lunar White". It is about a neophyte UE on his first (guided) tour of the TTC tunnels.



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Re: UE in Fiction and other books
<Reply # 27 on 3/18/2006 9:08 AM >
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Posted by Samurai
"The Stand" by Stephen King. I love this book. Aside from the whole good versus evil thing, imagine an entire country that has been, well, been abandoned.


I'm not a big Stephen King fan but I gotta agree with that. I've read it three times. I also dig the Dark Tower books, although I lost interest at the Wizard and Glass. A couple of other UEish books are “The Cabinet of Curiosities” by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child and “Newer York”, a compilation of short stories set in future New York. Especially the last story, “In the Good Old Summer Time” by B.W. Clough.
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Re: UE in Fiction and other books
<Reply # 28 on 3/18/2006 9:41 AM >
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Maybe this should be a separate post but I figure I’ll throw it down a well and see if anyone salutes it…
If you could explore a fictitious location what would it be? I’d have to go with Villa Straylight from William Gibson's “Neuromancer".
“The Villa Straylight, ... is a body grown in upon itself, a Gothic folly. Each space in Straylight is in some way secret, this endless series of chambers linked by passages, by stairwells vaulted like intestines, where the eye is trapped in narrow curves, carried past ornate screens, empty alcoves...The architects of Freeside went to great pains to conceal the fact that the interior of the spindle is arranged with the banal precision of furniture in a hotel room. In Straylight, the hull's inner surface is overgrown with a desperate proliferation of structures, forms flowing, interlocking, rising toward a solid core of microcircuitry, our clan's corporate heart, a cylinder of silicon wormholed with narrow maintenance tunnels, some no wider than a man's hand."

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Re: UE in Fiction and other books
<Reply # 29 on 3/18/2006 12:13 PM >
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Posted by Mr. Crafty
Maybe this should be a separate post but I figure I’ll throw it down a well and see if anyone salutes it…
If you could explore a fictitious location what would it be? I’d have to go with Villa Straylight from William Gibson's “Neuromancer".
“The Villa Straylight, ... is a body grown in upon itself, a Gothic folly. Each space in Straylight is in some way secret, this endless series of chambers linked by passages, by stairwells vaulted like intestines, where the eye is trapped in narrow curves, carried past ornate screens, empty alcoves...The architects of Freeside went to great pains to conceal the fact that the interior of the spindle is arranged with the banal precision of furniture in a hotel room. In Straylight, the hull's inner surface is overgrown with a desperate proliferation of structures, forms flowing, interlocking, rising toward a solid core of microcircuitry, our clan's corporate heart, a cylinder of silicon wormholed with narrow maintenance tunnels, some no wider than a man's hand."


this is another book that I've read over and over. I really think that the Sprawl series was the pinnacle for Gibson, back when he was really raw.

Now, i don't know, he seems... content? maybe...

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Re: UE in Fiction and other books
<Reply # 30 on 3/19/2006 5:22 AM >
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Posted by Torlough
After seeing this post by Allva:




I was wondering what good fiction and non fiction is out there? I am running out of good current fiction to read and this sounds good.


It *IS* good; Morrell is himself an explorer.

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Re: UE in Fiction and other books
<Reply # 31 on 3/19/2006 7:00 AM >
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The book that made me want to go to Paris:

Bad Voltage, by the great Jonathan Litell, son of Robert Litell. Exploring the Paris Catacombs back in the 80s. A masterpiece if ever there was one.
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