(THIS PRINTED VERSION IS HARDCOVER) While researching an ancient symbol, archaeologist Laurent Sherwood and his friend, Robertson Davies, fall 23 miles into a secondary Earth crust. After discovering an advanced living civilization, they realize their arrival has set in motion a chain of events that will engulf human history.
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Read Book I, Book II, and, like the characters within, make discoveries nothing can prepare you for: A living underground civilization, obsessed with the pleasure of reading. A paper airplane saving the entire world... A radically new perspective on the history of our books. A massive military assault on the world's largest library. Finally, see the underpinnings of most cultural declines, revealing the illness of boredom dwelling within all of us. In their relentless, absolute love of books, fanatical beyond any rational restraint, Atlanteans carry a message seemingly few "Aliens" want to hear: That the ubiquitous content of screens, by its transience, is a threat to the very continuity of our sense of being.
At the end of Book II, you will put the tome down, look around to see an unrecognizable world, and realize you were holding not so much a novel, but a duly stamped passport.