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1. In the post apocalyptic "I Feel Like the Morning Star", a group of children take matters into their own hands when the adults refuse to open the doors of their underground haven and see what is left of the world outside. When they emerge, the first thing they see reminds them of one of their nursery songs, and they sing and dance in the open air that some of them have never felt before. What do they sing?
2. In "This Time of Darkness" Amy and Axel must escape the Guards, the Crazies, and the ever watchful cameras, and make their way up to Level One and the hope of making it Outside. One vital thing makes their escape possible; without it they would have been killed on the way. What is this lifesaving thing?
3. In "8 Against Utopia", 7000 years have passed while the descendants of the lucky few live peaceful lives in their safely domed city. All thoughts of leaving are forbidden, and a telepathic master computer reads the citizens' minds to ensure nobody goes against the rules. Featuring in the alternative title of the book, what is the name of the city?
4. In this book by Monica Hughes, the upper echelons of society have "infopaks" which attach to a socket surgically implanted at the nape of their necks. Tomi is an Administrator's son and destined to follow in his father's footsteps, but he breaks the hold of the infopaks and escapes outside the city, where he meets free people. Which book is this?
5. In the land that was once part of Canada, the descendants of the survivors of a terrible nuclear war eke out a basic living from their farms. Every newborn baby is carefully checked to make sure it is physically perfect, and if it is not, it is refused a "Certificate" and quietly disappears...
Which book am I describing?
6. In a book named "Outside," only children are left in a slowly dying domed city, many years after a forgotten disaster sent people inside for safety. Kristie and her friends eventually find their way out after following the mystical "Rhyming Man" across a complicated coded path. Who wrote "Outside"?
7. "The City of Ember" (2003) was the first of four books about the inhabitants of an underground city, and their return to the surface of the earth. Two hundred years have passed since a group of old people and babies were sent down into the city to survive a coming disaster, and it is time for their descendants to leave. Who wrote "The City of Ember" and its three sequels?
8. In 2300AD, a great disaster befell the Earth, and a group of people fled to an underground city for safety. Three hundred years later, Raymond Barnes and a group of his friends and colleagues repair the great elevator and head out onto the surface once more. The title of this novel, by Robert Silverberg, tells us the nature of the disaster; what is it?
9. In the far future, centuries after a devastating nuclear war, the United States is inhabited by three cultures: the Federation in their high tech underground bunker cities, the Mutes out on the Plains, and the Sons of Ne-Issan around the Great Lakes. How are the six books by Patrick Tilley set in this world collectively known?
10. Tia and Rabbit live with their tribe on the site of an old missile base, many years after a devastating war decimated the population and threw the survivors back into a Stone Age hunter/gatherer type existence. They have a talent that nobody else has; what is it?
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