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From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Novels Featuring Tunnels
Date: 1 May 2025 14:41:44 GMT
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In article <vuvrkl$2nm1j$1@dont-email.me>,
Tony Nance  <tnusenet17@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 4/30/25 10:04 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
>> Five SFF Novels Featuring Tunnels
>> 
>> Name a better place to hide from and/or look for trouble!
>> 
>> https://reactormag.com/five-sff-novels-featuring-tunnels/
>
>I've only read the Verne, but I did re-read it just last year. You are 
>absolutely on-target about being careful about which translation you read.
>
>A couple tunnels that come to mind from recent reading:
>
>Reynolds - On the Steel Breeze (Poseidon’s Children #2)
>Two places: in the giant colony/generation ship (leading to <spoiler 
>stuff> AND from the ancestral African home to the “rail gun”
>
>Ashton - Mickey7 (which I will finish later today - 50 pages to go) The 
>title protagonist starts the book in a labyrinth of tunnels, and those 
>tunnels (and what happens there) turn out to be important for the rest 
>of the book, in at least two very prominent ways.
>
>Lastly, it's only a small part of a long book, but:
>In Stephen King's The Stand, the Lincoln Tunnel scene is very memorable, 
>very intense, and is generally considered to be one of his most 
>memorable scenes.
>
>Tony

Harrison did an alt-hist, _A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!_.  I don't
recall much, but I think the tunnel was more a mcguffin than something
spent a lot of time in.
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