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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.

*** In ''[[The Truth]]'', Sacharissa Cripslock explains the phenomenon to some dwarfs while availing themselves of the exact same eccentricity of architecture. Basically, Ankh-Morpork is (somewhere down there) built on soft loam. Gradually, slowly, not so you'd notice until you tripped on the sidewalk, the sturdy foundations of the city sank ever deeper into the ground. At certain points in the city's history, street level was a full story above the entrances of the buildings; ladders and tunnels were used to get across the street. The Author's Note at the beginning explains that this is based on Seattle, below.

* [[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.)