Cholmondely wrote: ↑Wed Jul 30, 2025 4:25 pm
RockDoctor wrote: ↑Wed Jul 30, 2025 3:13 pm
Over to you. Let the spelunking commence.
How about the hidden cave system underneath the city of Threerivers in Paul O. Williams' The Fall of the Shell? Set in the aftermath of a nuclear war destroying the US, some refugees build cities along the Mississippi and hide away in them. Threerivers has hidden caves where the stone for the city above was carved from the bedrock and the hero Brudoer hides there for yonks, spying on those living above. Don't recall any super sonics, sorry!
Never heard of it, so I'll take your word for it.
Place 1 : Moonraker ; Wildblood ; no MBPs. Correction - in his list of Bondisms, Wildblood
did include the MBP I had been thinking of - the sub-volcano cave (magma chamber? I shudder, geologically) in You Only Live Twice. He also took several other shows off the table (Thunderbirds, UFO) but not
all of the other examples I'd been thinking of.
Place 2 : Cholmondely with "hidden cave system underneath the city of Threerivers in Paul O. Williams' The Fall of the Shell?"
Place 3 : TBA
Place 4 : TBA
Place 5 : TBA
Caves excavated for building stone? Well, it's not without precedent - volcanic tuffs under Rome (that's another city on a short fuse, along with Naples) ; Box stone mines just outside Bath (I got "tagged" by a sniper's laser down there; part of the complex is a military nuclear bunker. They probably weren't loaded, because I was on the "public" side of the tunnel full of razor wire, but it's a very effective "Fuck. Off. Now.")
It'd be a hell of a lot of effort for a just-post-apocalypse society though.