After the monster-fest of
The Amphibians, the narrator is captured by the rulers of
the far-flung future: super-intelligent beings who dwell underground.
This second part of
the story was combined with The Amphibians in 1929 and published as a single volume
called The World Below. In 1954, it was published on it’s own as The
Dwellers.
I know from what you have shown me already, that you come of a race which has lived only
on the earth’s surface, and any cave or tunnel by which you enter it implies the
approach to a confined and narrow space, so that when you attempt to visualise the
condition of a race which lives under the surface, your imagination is of a cave, and not
of a country.