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Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!news.szaf.org!nntp-feed.chiark.greenend.org.uk!ewrotcd!maths.tcd.ie!usenet.csail.mit.edu!.POSTED.hergotha.csail.mit.edu!not-for-mail From: wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Novels Featuring Tunnels Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2025 20:44:19 -0000 (UTC) Organization: MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab Message-ID: <vuu233$tlv$1@usenet.csail.mit.edu> References: <vutal4$2u6$1@panix2.panix.com> Injection-Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2025 20:44:19 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: usenet.csail.mit.edu; posting-host="hergotha.csail.mit.edu:207.180.169.34"; logging-data="30399"; mail-complaints-to="security@csail.mit.edu" X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Originator: wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Lines: 34 Bytes: 2500 In article <vutal4$2u6$1@panix2.panix.com>, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> 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/ Two examples from introductions to books: 1) In Julian May's THE MANY-COLORED LAND, in the opening part ("The Leavetaking") set in 2112 Earth, exile-to-be Stein Oleson works on a crew that maintains the underground power transmission tunnels and repairs them after seismic events, between Lisbon and Cabo Verde. (We learn that the energy is beamed down from solar power satellites; the satellites are presumably geosynchronous so you need the transmission network to get the sunlight to the other side of the terminator. This was actually a thing people were seriously talking about as a solution to the 1970s energy crisis, although nobody had the slightest idea how to do it. 2) In the opening of Heinlein's FRIDAY, the title character takes a "semi-ballistic" craft (undergroun magnetically-accelerated passenger capsule in an evacuated tunnel on a ballistic trajectory) to Christchurch, N.Z. As I recall this was a common trope for both Heinlein and many other Golden Age authors. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | "Act to avoid constraining the future; if you can, wollman@bimajority.org| act to remove constraint from the future. This is Opinions not shared by| a thing you can do, are able to do, to do together." my employers. | - Graydon Saunders, _A Succession of Bad Days_ (2015)