Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Novels Featuring Tunnels

In article <m7j4jeFh205U1@mid.individual.net>,
 ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) wrote:

In article <robertaw-D8F92F.22155701052025@news.individual.net>,
Robert Woodward  <robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:

In article <0001HW.2DC41BBD00DE1B5F70000A55238F@news.supernews.com>,
WolfFan <akwolffan@zoho.com> wrote:
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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
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Name a better place to hide from and/or look for trouble!
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https://reactormag.com/five-sff-novels-featuring-tunnels/

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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.

 
My fav part of that book was the coal-powered airplanes.

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That bit caused an overload to my Suspension of Disbelief.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam-powered_aircraft

It was not the steam part, though that didn't help; it was the coal.
Burnng coal results in significant less BTUs per pound of coal versus
burning 1 pound of jet fuel. So much so, I am not certain if the vehicle
can fly for any length of time if it is carrying any amount of payload.

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