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From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five Works About Extended Trips and Unexpected Delays
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In article <lj6u3dFno6dU1@mid.individual.net>,
Ted Nolan <tednolan> <tednolan> wrote:
>In article <valep5$34jhh$1@dont-email.me>,
>William Hyde  <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
>>James Nicoll wrote:
>>> Five Works About Extended Trips and Unexpected Delays
>>> 
>>> In honor of a Starliner crew recapitulating Willem Van der Veckan's
>>> career arc, five travellers whose trips were unexpectedly extended.
>>> 
>>> https://reactormag.com/five-works-about-extended-trips-and-unexpected-delays/
>>> 
>>In "Eyes of the Overworld" Cugel is twice transported to the other side 
>>of the world, once as punishment, once as a result of his 
>>over-estimation of his magical abilities, the latter providing fodder 
>>for Gygax.
>>
>>I've not read them, but isn't Dumarest (?) the protagonist of E.C. 
>>Tubb's long series, trying to find his way back to earth?
>>
>
>He is, although like Cugel he didn't set out to go on a trip.
>
>Spoiler: He did eventually got back but then Tubb died, so we still
>don't know how a lot of the plotlines would have worked out.
>-- 

"He did eventually got back".  Sheesh.  "Get".

Although I suppose many of his doomed ladyfriends did "got back".
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