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.

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  1. The World Below by S. Fowler Wright (W. Collins Sons, 1929).
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by S. Fowler Wright