Re: (ReacTor) Five Works About Extended Trips and Unexpected Delays

In article <valep5$34jhh$1@dont-email.me>,
William Hyde  <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:

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.
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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?
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He is, although like Cugel he didn't set out to go on a trip.
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Spoiler: He did eventually got back but then Tubb died, so we still
don't know how a lot of the plotlines would have worked out.
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