About the book: 1997 / Beneath the city there is another city: damp, dark and alien, a city of sewers and slippery rivers running in different directions that so desperately strive for freedom . It was in this hidden underground city that he found the child. Children. Lots of children. They have been waiting for him for a long time... One of the most provocative stories by Harlan Ellison, a master of provocations and the author of the “New Wave”, which itself was to a fair degree provocative.