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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!panix!.POSTED.panix2.panix.com!not-for-mail From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Novels Featuring Tunnels Date: Thu, 1 May 2025 22:00:41 -0000 (UTC) Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Message-ID: <vv0qu9$bab$1@reader1.panix.com> References: <vutal4$2u6$1@panix2.panix.com> <vuvrkl$2nm1j$1@dont-email.me> <m7hfh7F8ibmU1@mid.individual.net> Injection-Date: Thu, 1 May 2025 22:00:41 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader1.panix.com; posting-host="panix2.panix.com:166.84.1.2"; logging-data="11595"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 2579 Lines: 41 In article <m7hfh7F8ibmU1@mid.individual.net>, Ted Nolan <tednolan> <tednolan> wrote: >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. I wonder what the third work I mentioned was? -- My reviews can be found at http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/ My tor pieces at https://www.tor.com/author/james-davis-nicoll/ My Dreamwidth at https://james-davis-nicoll.dreamwidth.org/ My patreon is at https://www.patreon.com/jamesdnicoll