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      • City of Ember is a 2008 American science fantasy adventure film based on the 2003 novel The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau.
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  2. The City of Ember is a post-apocalyptic novel by Jeanne DuPrau that was published in 2003. The story is about Ember, a post-apocalyptic underground city threatened by aging infrastructure and corruption.

  3. When an unspecified global catastrophe looms, an underground city known as Ember is constructed to shelter a large group of survivors. In addition, a small metal box intended for a future generation of Emberites is timed to open after 200 years. This box is entrusted to the Mayor of the City of Ember, and each Mayor passes it on to their successor.

  4. The story is set in the underground city of Ember, which was built to protect its inhabitants from an unspecified disaster. The city is powered by a massive generator that has been running for over 200 years. However, the city’s supplies are running out, and the generator is failing.

  5. The City of Ember falls into a subcategory of science fiction and adventure fiction known as subterranean fiction, or fictional works that focus on life underground. The genre has its roots in the disproved 17th-century Hollow Earth theory, which proposed that the Earth is actually hollow.

  6. May 13, 2003 · The story is about Ember, a city threatened by aging infrastructure. The young protagonist, Lina Mayfleet, and her friend, Doon Harrow (the second protagonist), follow clues left behind by the original builders of the City of Ember, to safety in the outside world.

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  7. Jan 1, 2000 · Ember is a decaying, dank urban jumble of crumbling redbricks, rusting lampposts and bleeding pipes, the kind of fantasy-sci-fi-retro world realised by Terry Gilliam in Brazil or Jeunet and Caro...

  8. City of Ember: Directed by Gil Kenan. With Saoirse Ronan, David Ryall, Harry Treadaway, Bill Murray. For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights.