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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: William Hyde Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five Works About Extended Trips and Unexpected Delays Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 16:59:58 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 23:00:22 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d568261aadf51fc470aec3e9601bbfd8"; logging-data="3296817"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18SRKGy8Srkg+k64E50BNmp" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.18.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:b68YCufniCrdIcqaa01/wzWsPPk= In-Reply-To: Bytes: 1786 James Nicoll wrote: > Five Works About Extended Trips and Unexpected Delays > > In honor of a Starliner crew recapitulating Willem Van der Veckan's > career arc, five travellers whose trips were unexpectedly extended. > > https://reactormag.com/five-works-about-extended-trips-and-unexpected-delays/ > In "Eyes of the Overworld" Cugel is twice transported to the other side of the world, once as punishment, once as a result of his over-estimation of his magical abilities, the latter providing fodder for Gygax. I've not read them, but isn't Dumarest (?) the protagonist of E.C. Tubb's long series, trying to find his way back to earth? William Hyde