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Real life spacious sewers do exist. See [http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/dctho/iama_a_drainer_i_explore_sewers_storm_drains_and/ IAMA Drainer]; note also that storm drainage systems, which are quite spacious, are sometimes [[You Keep Using That Word|called "sewers"]], thus explaining at least some versions of this trope.
For whole levels set in sewers, see [[Down the Drain]]. Compare [[Unnecessarily Large Interior]].
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* In [[Garth Nix]]'s ''[[Shade's Children]]'', which takes place [[After the End]], the sewer system is the primary path of transportation for [[La Résistance]]. Averted very slightly by the fact that the difficulties of walking in a curved pipe and the danger of sudden floods are addressed.
* In Eric Nylund's ''A Game of Universe'', some action happens in a sewer, but since there are no walkways they have to do a lot of wading/swimming.
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
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** The entirety of Ankh-Morpork is built on the slowly sinking ruins of its past, making it extremely easy for the native/non-native dwarves to tunnel under the city. Morpork doesn't build out from urban sprawl, it builds UP, and then sinks farther and farther.
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* [[Neal Shusterman]]'s young adult novel ''[[Downsiders]]'' is about a secret community of people who live underneath New York City and are forbidden to go "topside."
* In the early Neal Stephenson book ''The Big U'', devoted role-playing gamers would enter the sewers to game, with the help of a mainframe computer and a form of [[Mission Control]] acting as DM. (See the ''Mazes & Monsters'' entry below.)
* In ''The War Between the Pitiful Teachers and the Splendid Kids'', a spacious sewer inhabited by the Bookworms (smart kids and teacher's pets) is the last refuge of the [[Kid Hero]].
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* In ''[[The Saga of Darren Shan]]'' absurdly large sewers feature largely in a number of the books {{spoiler|most notably an arena of sorts is built in one part of the sewer and the sewers are used as a base of sorts for the mad vampaneze Murlough.}}
* In the book ''Reliquary'', the sequel to ''The Relic'', much of the action takes place in massive underground sewers, storm drains, maintenance tunnels, abandoned pneumatic train systems (!) beneath New York City. As noted in the [[Real Life]] section below, justified as [[Truth in Television]]: New York City is said to stand on seven storeys of underground tunnels, and the authors add a postscript backing the veracity of much of their claims about the extensive tunnelwork below the city.
* In the ''[[Tortall Universe
* An Absurdly Spacious Rubbish Chute {{spoiler|serves as the escape path for Jenna and the Heaps}} in ''[[Septimus Heap|Magyk]]''.
* In ''The Magician'', the second book of ''[[The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel]]'' series, Machiavelli and Dee take Josh into the spacious sewers and then the catacombs in Paris to be {{spoiler|Awakened by Mars Ultor}}. This is [[Justified Trope|justified]] because Paris does have an incredibly large sewer system that connects to the catacombs. There is even a special branch of the police force that patrols the sewers.
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* ''[[Yoshi's Story]]'' features two levels set inside giant sewer pipes. The first level, Jelly Pipe, is loaded up with mysterious gunk that clings to the sides. The second, Torrential Maze, is full of rushing water to sweep you away.
* When the heroes from ''[[Shining the Holy Ark]]'' get kidnapped they use a secret passage and escape into the sewers. It appear to be one massive space under a vaulted ceiling, with multiple levels, that is actually bigger than the castle above it. Maybe justified as there were more than one secret entrance to the castle and it's implied that soon of the royalty is entombed there...in the sewers.
* ''[[Global Agenda]]'' gets in on the action with a mission in the subterranean waterways in North Sonara (Recursive Colony Update). It's the sort of spacious that some of the shorter-range turrets can't cover its width.
* There's a huge sewer underneath the village in ''[[Stardew Valley]]'', which is home to the merchant, Krobus, as well as a fishing spot.
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