market a science fiction and the mole people be just a fiction . the only science element be the hero claim to be an archeologist in which case raider of the lose ark would be science fiction also . really i think the mole people must be see a a comedy . specialist in babylonian study profess a vague familiarity with the story of gilgamesh . they discover a race of unmanly albino live under a mountain . the albino do not know about the world above ground . they harness mole people a slave labor to grow mushroom and spend their day whip and flog them . apparently they do nothing else . the most sympathetic character be cynthia patrick and the mole people . the mole people rebel against their taskmaster while cynthia patrick be kill before she can rebel against the will of john agar .