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From: Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com>
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Novels Featuring Tunnels
Date: Thu, 01 May 2025 22:15:57 -0700
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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.

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