Sci Fi books about hollow earth?

[rkomar]

Originally Posted by BenG

Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne (they only go down less than 100 miles)

I had to smile at the only 100 miles part. The temperature of the rock rises roughly about 1 degree Celsius every 100m. I used to work about 2km underground, and the rock there was already 43 degrees Celsius. I used to work in a bakery when I was a teenager, and going 100 miles down would be like jumping into the oven with the baking bread. Good thing I was still a naive youth when I gobbled up the Pellucidar series.

[BenG]

Originally Posted by rkomar

I had to smile at the only 100 miles part. The temperature of the rock rises roughly about 1 degree Celsius every 100m. I used to work about 2km underground, and the rock there was already 43 degrees Celsius. I used to work in a bakery when I was a teenager, and going 100 miles down would be like jumping into the oven with the baking bread. Good thing I was still a naive youth when I gobbled up the Pellucidar series.

It was still far from the center.
The underground ocean kept it cool.

[Starbreaker]

Originally Posted by xg4bx

The Descent by Jeff Long-
...

theres also a sequel called Deeper.

I loved these books. Quite dark and depressing, but great reads.

I just recently read Subterranean by James Rollins... I would stay away from that one even though the description is enticing.

[Guns4Hire]

Originally Posted by xg4bx

The Descent by Jeff Long-

"In a high Himalayan cave, among the death pits of Bosnia, in a newly excavated Java temple, Long's characters find out to their terror that humanity is not alone--that, as we have always really known, horned and vicious humanoids lurk in vast caverns beneath our feet. This audacious remaking of the old hollow-earth plot takes us, in no short order, to the new world regime that follows the genocidal harrowing of Hell by heavily armed, high-tech American forces. An ambitious tycoon sends an expedition of scientists, including a beautiful nun linguist and a hideously tattooed commando former prisoner of Hell, ever deeper into the unknown, among surviving, savage, horned tribes and the vast citadels of the civilizations that fell beneath the earth before ours arose. A conspiracy of scholars pursues the identity of the being known as Satan, coming up with unpalatable truths about the origins of human culture and the identity of the Turin Shroud."

theres also a sequel called Deeper.

I read that a while back (don't even know how long ago but had to be at least five years ago...probably closer to ten years actually) and thoroughly enjoyed it. Didn't actually know there was a sequel. Thanks for the info.

[Birds]

There is a relatively recent children's book called Tunnels by Roderick Gordon, which has a slightly steampunk vibe, and a much older small children's book called Fattypuffs and Thinifers by Andre Maurois - I mean the book is small, not the children.
Although, I have slightly strayed from the brief as neither of the above are real sci-fi, and they describe hidden civilisations rather than hidden races.

Now, going off on a complete tangent, there is Marrow by Robert Reed which is hard sci-fi (not children's) and does not feature the earth but a hollow planet-like ship. But it is very, very good.

[pholy]

Andre Norton wrote something called "The People of the Crater" which was the cover story the first issue (1947) of Fantasy Book. I don't think I ever finished it; it certainly wasn't memorable I guess. It's Gutenberg 30960, and I found it on Feedbooks.
I'm not certain if it takes place inside the earth, or merely within a very deep crater.

[stonetools]

Sci-Fi? Wait a minute -you mean a hollow earth ISN"T science?

[Todd Young]

I read a book where the "Earth" (another planet) is hollow on the inside, and all the people walk around on the inside of the shell. There is a large bright light in the centre of the planet (like the sun) and the people are trying to work out where they are - trying to understand their world.

I've got no idea what the book is called, but if you try it on Name That Book thread, someone is bound to know. I think it was written in the 70s. I can still remember it quite vividly.