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From: Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com>
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Novels Featuring Tunnels
Date: Fri, 02 May 2025 21:43:15 -0700
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In article <m7j4jeFh205U1@mid.individual.net>,
 ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) wrote:

> In article <robertaw-D8F92F.22155701052025@news.individual.net>,
> Robert Woodward  <robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:
> >In article <0001HW.2DC41BBD00DE1B5F70000A55238F@news.supernews.com>,
> > WolfFan <akwolffan@zoho.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On May 1, 2025, ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan wrote
> >> (in article <m7hfh7F8ibmU1@mid.individual.net>):
> >> 
> >> > 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.
> >> 
> >> My fav part of that book was the coal-powered airplanes.
> >
> >That bit caused an overload to my Suspension of Disbelief.
> >
> 
> 	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam-powered_aircraft

It was not the steam part, though that didn't help; it was the coal. 
Burnng coal results in significant less BTUs per pound of coal versus 
burning 1 pound of jet fuel. So much so, I am not certain if the vehicle 
can fly for any length of time if it is carrying any amount of payload.

-- 
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Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_.
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