Literary or Media References
- The system plays a large part in English writer Neil Gaiman's 1996 novel Neverwhere.
- The system plays a part in Australian writer Michael Robotham's 2005 novel Lost (a.k.a. The Drowning Man).
- It featured as one of the Seven Wonders of the Industrial World in the BBC television series of the same name.
- Eleanor Updale's Montmorency (beginning with Montmorency: Liar Thief Gentleman?) novels are set against the backdrop of construction of the London sewerage system.
- The London sewerage system is also featured in Guitar Hero: Smash Hits as one of the venues.
- The London sewerage system plays a large part in English writer Clare Clark's 2005 novel The Great Stink (winner of the Guildford Arts Book Prize).
- The construction of the London sewer system is central to the plot of Anne Perry's 2006 novel Dark Assassin, in which the Great Stink is also mentioned.
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