Novels about Megadungeon Exploration

[jonesy]

Would Rendezvous With Rama count? It's not a tomb, and sci fi, but it was huge.

I remember reading the non-fictional story of Howard Carter and the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb and finding it fascinating, but I don't recall what the book series was called. Something about egyptologists.

The Tomb of Horrors novelization isn't too bad.

 

[Tav_Behemoth]

Sign of the Labrys by Margaret St. Clair is on the AD&D recommended reading list and is set entirely in a multi-level bomb shelter with secret doors, teleporter traps, slimes, and other characteristic D&D elements.

The Descent is a contemporary modern thriller set in a hollow world; it's got good spelunking passages and some people liked it lots more than I did.

 

[GreyLord]

I think this may be the biggest dungeon I've ever read about in a novel series

Dungeon series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Or simply...The Dungeon.

Ooops...looks like someone already mentioned it above...well...since that's the case and I reposted the same link...you can consider this a second endorsement on this mega dungeon.

 

[Wycen]

I never finished the novel "Queen of the Demonweb Pits" by Paul Kidd, but maybe it has a mega-dungeon in it?

There is no particular reason I've never finished other than having to prioritize reading and research, but maybe I'll finish it sometime next year.

 

[Hrothgar Rannúlfr]

Thanks for the suggestions! Keep 'em coming!

 

[Sepulchrave II]

IIRC, The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis has a lengthy subterranean component, although it's 30 years since I read it.

Journey to the Centre of the Earth really has some remarkable passages.

Are you looking for descriptive passages?

 

[Piratecat]

I think Greg Costikyan's Another Day, Another Dungeon has a significant dungeon in it. Been too long since I read it, though.

 

[Shades of Green]

Forgive me if I misremember, but doesn't the Death Gate Cycle by Weis and Hickman have a HUGE dungeon as one of its settings, where one of the races has been exiled to?

 

[Thanael]

[ame=http://www.amazon.com/Depths-Madness-Dungeon-Eric-Scott/dp/0786943149]The Depths of Madness by Eric Scott de Bie[/ame] has pretty good reviews on amazon. It's a D&D novel from the 3e era and part of the Forgotten Realms: The Dungeons series of novels.

 

[On Puget Sound]

Bridge of Birds, by Barry Hughart, includes a section with an extensive cave complex, the map to which is a carved jade sphere that must be read by touch, and with a tidal "trap" that sweeps through and drowns or crushes everything when the tide comes in.