Unlike most of his people in his Lower Level, Jared wears the front of his hair short because he likes to keep his eyes open, even though there is nothing to see in the pitch-black caverns. Jared Fenton is “twenty-seven pregnancy periods of age.” Although bearded and strong, Jared is still a Pre-Survivor, not yet an adult Survivor. In 2007, Galouye posthumously received the Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award which highlights a genre writer whose work is worthy of being “rediscovered” by today’s readers. Some readers have likened Dark Universe to a science-fictional version of Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave.” Dark Universe was nominated for a Hugo award in 1961. In Dark Universe, Galouye explores the tension between religion and science: the conflict between the blind acceptance of faith and the active pursuit of knowledge. He sets out on a perilous quest, battling everything from superstition to soubats, to discover Light. As young Jared grows up, he begins to question his people’s established belief system. Generations later, they live in total darkness in underground caves.
Following a nuclear holocaust, survivors retreat into underground bunkers.
Dark Universe (1961) is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Daniel Galouye.
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