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From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Novels Featuring Tunnels
Date: Thu, 1 May 2025 22:00:41 -0000 (UTC)
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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? 
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