Sunlight People Underground - Paperback

by Samuel J. Thompson 1st (Author)

In the twilight age of humanity, there is no Sunlight, and none still living who could remember it. To wonder if it ever existed has become an ineluctable ritual of maturation; an arcane question each of the destitute people of Z-Bloc must confront in their own ways. As the antediluvian stones of their megastructure crumble, so do the last remnants of civilized society, its long-abandoned children realizing their legacies via means of religious zealotry, base carnality, or blood-drenched cruelty.

Amidst the degeneration, a nameless, nihilistic protagonist finds himself involuntarily elevated beyond anonymity when he is forced to flee from his home and abscond into the abysmal labyrinth of pipes and tunnels buried underground. On his sojourn through untold miles of decay both literal and moralistic, his saturnine apathy is starkly contrasted against the grander philosophical ideals of love, posterity, and the light of faith in a world darkened by secularity and a theological dogma that may prove to be dangerously fraudulent...