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Subterranean reminds me most of Journey to the Center of the Earth, and most particularly the nineteen ninety-something movie adaptation. The technology introduced is not way, way out there, but it is sufficiently advanced enough to give readers the notion that the story is entirely possible.

Given how highly interconnected Earth's ecosystems are, the only place you'd ever find something new would be in an extremely isolated place, which makes one of the basic premises of the novel all the more believable. After all, where else but in a totally isolated ecosystem would egg-laying mammals--deemed an evolutionary dead-end in the rest of the world--be able to flourish and survive? I'll admit, I had more trouble accepting the possibility of a land bridge connecting Australia with Antarctica than I did with the rest of the novel. Australia is quite some distance away from Antarctica. Still, once I accepted that possibility, the story flowed much more smoothly.

Subterranean is a sort of "lost world" kind of book, and naturally humans are determined to capitalize on the lost world and use it to ensure their success and comforts in life. But whether you're reading it for the human interactions or the exploratory options, or just to be in on the action as it goes on, then give this book a real chance.

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