Coober Pedy, opal mining capital of the world, is also an underworld where people live in homes carved out of the sandstone to escape the harsh outback climate.
Roy loved the feeling - it was like being back in Egypt... in tombs and passageways on some archaeological adventure with the fictional hero of his novels, Anson Hunter, the alternative Egyptologist.
(Now he appreciates how life was for the Egyptian Coptic monk Abuna Daniel who also lived in a man-made cave in Roy's Egyptian adventure thriller novel 'The Smiting Texts' .)
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