https://willcanderson.github.io/netherdrome/ One hundred years in the future. Some people manage to live on the land, but most have retreated to vast mazes of tunnels below the festering surface, living comfortably in huge subterranean cities. A story from the lives of the citizens of…the NETHERDROME. en-us © 1989 Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Barry Anderson Dispatches from the edge of technology, culture, and ideas. false Netherdrome willcanderson+netherdrome@gmail.com An innocent man discovers that a group of radicals are plotting to sabotage the Netherdrome's air system. The saboteurs are out to kill him, he's wanted for a murder he didn't commit, and he's only got one hour to save the city. https://archive.org/download/netherdrome/01%20Netherdrome%20-%20The%20Airman%20%26%20The%20Saboteur.mp3 Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 28:01 1 full false A Netherdrome security officer investigates why thousands of people, including his girlfriend, suddenly lose their emotional stability at the same time each evening. https://archive.org/download/netherdrome/02%20Netherdrome%20-%20Music%20Hath%20Charms.mp3 Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 27:38 2 full false A potential weapon that can control people's emotions disappears. Is it in the hands of a foreign power, or of terrorists? https://archive.org/download/netherdrome/03%20Netherdrome%20-%20A%20Sound%20Defense.mp3 Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 27:32 3 full false A brilliant genetic engineer develops a new strain of wheat that thrives in polluted air and poor soil. It should be a boon to all mankind, but is it? https://archive.org/download/netherdrome/04%20Netherdrome%20-%20Superwheat.mp3 Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 25:17 4 full false A young man's hopes for a career as an astronaut are dashed by a tragic accident, but he learns that when life closes one door, it often opens another. https://archive.org/download/netherdrome/05%20Netherdrome%20-%20His%20Mind%20May%20Wander.mp3 Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 26:20 5 full false A man falls in love with the image of a woman he's seen in an electronic window and decides to go find her. https://archive.org/download/netherdrome/06%20Netherdrome%20-%20The%20Woman%20In%20The%20Window.mp3 Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 28:49 6 full false A notorious drug kingpin is gunned down in an interactive three-dimensional theater and Netherdrome Security must discover who killed him before a gang war erupts. There are three suspects, two alibis, one murder weapon, and no way the murder could have been committed. https://archive.org/download/netherdrome/07%20Netherdrome%20-%20Is%20The%20Theater%20Really%20Death%3F%20Part%201.mp3 Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 25:46 7 full false The conclusion of the two part murder mystery. https://archive.org/download/netherdrome/08%20Netherdrome%20-%20Is%20The%20Theater%20Really%20Death%3F%20Part%202.mp3 Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 25:38 8 full false The manager of a down and out baseball team gets the answer to his prayers — a perfect pitcher, but he has to pay a price. https://archive.org/download/netherdrome/09%20Netherdrome%20-%20Nothing%20In%20The%20Rules.mp3 Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 25:11 9 full false Deep within a newly dug tunnel, something is moving in the shadows. A worker has disappeared, and an unexplained cave-in has sealed the entrance. What is the secret of the tunnel? https://archive.org/download/netherdrome/10%20Netherdrome%20-%20The%20Tunnel.mp3 Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 27:35 10 full false An elderly Native American learns that he is fatally ill and returns to his boyhood home on the surface to live his final days. His grandson goes along and discovers something about his heritage—and himself. https://archive.org/download/netherdrome/11%20Netherdrome%20-%20That%20They%20May%20Face%20The%20Winds.mp3 Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 29:30 11 full false A man is caught between the plots of a radical group from the surface and the schemes of an ambitious politician. https://archive.org/download/netherdrome/12%20Netherdrome%20-%20The%20Ultimate%20Vote%20-%20Part%201.mp3 Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 27:22 12 full false Two men try to stop an assassination and the schemes of an unscrupulous politician. https://archive.org/download/netherdrome/13%20Netherdrome%20-%20The%20Ultimate%20Vote%20-%20Part%202.mp3 Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 27:44 13 full false