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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]]'':
** In the
{{quote|'''Detritus:''' In Ankh-Morpork even the shit have a street to itself. Truly, this a land of opportunity.}}
** 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.
*** In ''[[
* ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets|Harry Potter]]''. [[Justified Trope|Justified]] somewhat because the Chamber's creator was one of Founders of Hogwarts, who meant it to be accessible both by a person and by a giant monster. That, and [[A Wizard Did It|it's magic]].
* [[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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