# Down There In Darkness

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- Book: [Down There In Darkness](https://www.bookquiver.com/george-turner/down-there-in-darkness) ([Down There In Darkness.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/george-turner/down-there-in-darkness.md))
- Authors: [George Turner](https://www.bookquiver.com/george-turner)
- Publisher: gateway
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7322-506-0
- Published: 2018-11-20
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Two men, one of them a policeman, are investigating a death involving a large international genetic engineering corporation. They become bothersome to the corporate owners and are taken out of action - not by being killed, but by being put to sleep for hundreds of years. But this may be a fate worse than death. They awaken to a distant future in which contemporary industrial civilization has been " cleansed" from the earth and what humanity survives is learning to live a very low-technology lifestyle, being bred eugenically to this life. This cleaning was done on purpose, an international plot by the rich and powerful who in fact rule the world - and who, in this distant future, are dying off. This is a complex and morally tortuous vision, and Turner's characters find it nearly impossible to adapt without killing someone, perhaps even themselves.