[Gutenberg 31597] • Out of the Earth

Is there anyone reading this who remembers what the Deros were? Any of you, anyone at all? Richard Shaver's Shaver Mysteries back in the late 1940s and early 1950s -- Shaver was a nut. Really and truly! But his craziness infected the whole field for a while. The original blurb on this tale (about also-subterranean people, which the Deros were, or someone was, or maybe the subterranean stuff was just a psychotic episode that Shaver turned into a story) was, "This is not a story about the Dero! This *is* a story about a lost people -- a persuasive and haunting story about a people, in a not too distant future, who have been forgotten by history. And it is the story of a little group of courageous people, determined to prove that Death was a Myth!"

Strange stuff. But it wasn't a Shaver Mystery.