The Descent
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A mountaineer in Tibet falls down a hole to emerge in a subterranean world, populated by brutish and horned creatures. Is this the hell of the Bible? As scientists and philosophers debate, a global race gets underway to exploit its fabulous mineral deposits. By the author of Angels of Light.
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2 primary booksThe Descent
The Descent is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 1999 with contributions by Jeff Long.
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This has been my longtime favorite novel, not because it's profound or moving, but because it fully pulled me into its strange and twisted subterranean world. I found my imagination returning to the story for weeks after reading the book.
I'm not sure what to make of Jeff Long‘s tale of an ancient underground civilization and the genocidal conflict that ensues after their discovery. It starts out kind of creepy, turns into a romance novel, then ends with one of those horror movie final scene gotchas.
Published in paperback by Jove.
This book starts out strong and promises to be a truly terrifying story. That first chapter is sleep-with-the-lights-on, throw the book in the freezer, chilling. But then Long keeps broadening the scope so we're introduced to a Dan Brown DaVinci Code re-examination of history and secret cabals, Michael Crichton eco-terror with elements of sci-fi, and romance thrown in for good measure. What could have been a tight horror novel about the discovery of a savage race living far beneath the earth instead becomes a convoluted mess that is all the stories that still manages the occasional bright spots.
