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Have you read this book?
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I'm trying to figure out what sci-fi book I read in junior high, about 25 years ago. | |
The book is post-apocalyptic although I don't know the nature of the apolcalypse: either | |
nuclear and/or environmental. The story centers around a young man who lives with his | |
father. They live in some sort of oppressive society and have to keep things (or | |
people?) hidden beneath their house. I think they grow their own food down there, which | |
is against the law. They use the dirt they've dug up as sound insulation in their walls. | |
Something is wrong with the air and they can't always be outside, or they need special | |
breathing gear. I don't remember anything about the story arc, but at the end they go | |
out to the desert and find a hatch that takes them to a passenger jet that is buried | |
underground. The jet isn't functional, but serves as a hidden suspended-animation | |
chamber which many "escapees" are using to travel to the future to escape the troubles | |
they are having in the present. | |
I don't remember anything about the title or author, but the cover of the book had a | |
ring on it with a figure-8 in the jewel. It was an older book and if I had to guess I would | |
say it was published sometime between the late 50s and early 70s. |
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