Sand - Sand, Bks 1-5 Author:Hugh Howey An omnibus of novels: Bk 1) The Belt of the Buried Gods; Bk 2) Out of No Man's Land; Bk 3) Return to Danvar; Bk 4) Thunder Due East; Bk 5) A Rap Upon Heaven's Gate — A world of sand. Sand covers everything. It has buried cities, it has buried people and it has buried secrets. People carve out an existence literally by hand. Everythi... more »ng is scarce, especially hope. We live across the thousand dunes with grit in our teeth and sand in our homes. No one will come for us. No one will save us. This is our life, diving for remnants of the old world so that we may build what the wind destroys. No one is looking down on us. Those constellations in the night sky? Those are the backs of gods we see. One of the booming trades though is diving. Using specially designed suits "divers" are able to dive beneath the sand dunes, recovering valuable artifacts from a buried world hundreds of metres below the ground. Diving is a precious skill passed down from fathers. Rumours exist of a lost city full of treasures deeper than anyone has ever dived before. Vic, the eldest sibling and best diver doesn’t believe the rumours but her brother Palmer does and he has a lot to try and prove. Finding the lost city could be the way to put his family back together but there are many dangers buried above and below the sand.« less