This fast-paced science fiction adventure about an underground city built by an advanced alien civilization teaches children about science and technology while engaging their imaginations. Determined to learn why their scientist parents forced them to suddenly move to a boring town in Pennsylvania, Ryan and Regan follow them to work and discover that their parents are really working on a top secret investigation of an underground city. After cracking passwords, dodging barbed wire, and defeating laser beam alarms, they find themselves trapped in the abandoned city and under attack by a swarm of insect-like creatures. While trying to determine the nature of the creatures and how to escape them, scientific concepts such as the immune system, nanotechnology, and black holes are explained and explored.
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"Recommended. Cinematic. Readers will surely be reminded of Eleanor Cameron's Mushroom Planet series, as well as Heinlein's Have Space Suit --Will Travel, and even Clarke's 2001."
--Asimov's Science Fiction magazine
"Captures that pulse-pounding excitement you remember from your Have Spaceship Will Travel and Postmarked the Stars days. . . . crisp, clean, and delivers what it promises."
--SFReader.com
"This science-fiction mystery series certainly keeps you turning the pages. It had me hooked by page two of the first book."
--The Children's Book Review
"Fun and suspenseful. Highly recommended."
-- kirkus
"My class loved it. They were totally engaged. It's a hard book to put down."
--5th Grade Teacher, Quoted in the San Diego Union-Tribune
Douglas E. Richards is a biotechnology executive and the former director of biotechnology licensing for Bristol-Myers Squibb. He holds degrees in both genetic engineering and business and lives in San Diego, California. David Cabot has a masters in illustration and lives in San Francisco, California.
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