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conversations.value: Do you know a description for a book titled The Secret People about span, Secret, People with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Action & Adventure?
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conversations.value: <span>... truly enjoyed The Secret People. Absolutely loved the ending... </span><span>Wishing you many exciting and safe adventures which I hope will lead to more novels! </span><span>- Karen Dale Trask, author </span>
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conversations.value: Do you know a description for a book titled The Secret People about Midlands, During, Ministry with the genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction?
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conversations.value: the author was born in 1903 in the Midlands. After leaving school, he tried his hand at several careers, including farming, law and advertising, before starting to write stories in 1925. During the war he worked as a censor in the Ministry of Information and afterwards served in the Army. The Day of The Triffids was published in 1951, and was followed by many other famous works of science fiction, including The Kraken Wakes, The Chrysalids and The Midwich Cuckoos. the author died in 1969.
  						  	
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conversations.value: Do you know a plot for a book titled The Secret People about span, Secret, People with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Action & Adventure?
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conversations.value: The Secret People: The Sahara is being flooded to create a new sea when the protagonist of the novel, Mark Sunnet, crashes his private rocket plane into an island of what is currently little more than a large lake.\nHe soon finds himself and his female companion sucked into an underground cavern where they are promptly captured by mysterious pygmies.\nThe diet of little people is centred on large fungi; the captives speculate that stories which reached the surface of the little people and their giant mushrooms may have led to the myth of gnomes.\nSunnet finds that a tiered community has evolved in the underground caverns — the pygmies inhabiting a large underground collection of natural and artificial caverns and tunnels, and the captured humans in a deliberately isolated subsection of the caverns.\nHe is also surprised to learn that family life exists in the caverns — "natives", children of captured humans who were born and have lived all their lives in the caverns exist, and are generally happy with their life, and have no wish to escape.\nMost of the captured humans do wish to escape, and two different methods are being tried.\nBoth are tunnels, one going up at an angle, to try and break through to the surface, and another on a level, hoping to intersect a pygmy tunnel or cavern, from where they will be able to make their way to the surface.\nThe pygmies are distressed, and it is Sunnet\'s arrival that reveals why to the captives — the pygmies fear their environment will be flooded and destroyed by the newly formed Saharan Sea.\nTheir fear is well founded, and the waters break through into the pygmy caverns, eventually flooding the entire ecosystem.\nSunnet and a handful of others survive, and finish the story being sunburned after years of subterranean life, and establishing a new company based on primitive — but unique — technology they rescued from the caverns.