The Secret People

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The Sun Bird was beginning to travel fast close to the edge of the whirlpool. They could look right down into the hollow of spinning water While flying over Africas New Sea a water project in the heart of the Sahara desert Mark Sunnets rocket plane crashes and is sucked through a hole in the desert floor into a strange cavernous new world. There he and his partner Margaret encounter the survivors of an ancient race of underground dwellers whose whole existence is now threatened. Captured and forced to live with other prisoners taken from the surface the pair know that they must escape before the waters above drown them all . . . The Secret People published in 1935 is John Wyndhams first novel. Perhaps the best writer of science fiction England has ever produced Stephen King The Sun Bird was beginning to travel fast close to the edge of the whirlpool. They could look right down into the hollow of spinning water While flying over Africas New Sea a water project in the heart of the Sahara desert Mark Sunnets rocket plane crashes and is sucked through a hole in the desert floor into a strange cavernous new world. There he and his partner Margaret encounter the survivors of an ancient race of underground dwellers whose whole existence is now threatened. Captured and forced to live with other prisoners taken from the surface the pair know that they must escape before the waters above drown them all . . . The Secret People published in 1935 is John Wyndhams first novel. Perhaps the best writer of science fiction England has ever produced Stephen King