Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Novels Featuring Tunnels

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!
 
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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.
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A couple tunnels that come to mind from recent reading:
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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”
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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.
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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.
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Tony

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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.